Play a Video File from the Web - ASP.NET

In this article we are going to see how to play a video file from the web or offline, for this we are creating a application which will take the input in from the text and Play the file.

We are creating a Literal control and assign the object value at run time while play.

HTML:

<form id="form1" runat="server">

    <div>

  <br />

  <br />

  <asp:literal id="Literal1" runat="server"></asp:literal>

  <br />

  <br />

  <asp:textbox id="InputText" runat="server" width="500px" height="50px" wrap="true"

            textmode="multiLine" readonly="false" >http://localhost:30687/Harivarasanam.mp4</asp:textbox>

  <br />

  <br />

  <asp:button id="Button1" runat="server" text="Play" onclick="Button1_Click" />

    </div>

    </form>

C# Code:

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.UI;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

namespace WebApplication1

{

    public partial class Player : System.Web.UI.Page

    {

        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

        }

        protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            try

            {

                string mySourceUrl = this.InputText.Text;

                bool isFullSize = false;

                this.Literal1.Text = this.GetWma(mySourceUrl, isFullSize);

            }

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

                this.Response.Write(ex.ToString());

            }

        }

        private string GetWma(string sourceUrl, bool isFullSize)

        {

            string newtag = "";

            sourceUrl = sourceUrl + "";

            sourceUrl = sourceUrl.Trim();

            if (sourceUrl.Length > 0)

            {

            }

            else

            {

                throw new System.ArgumentNullException("sourceUrl");

            }

            string myWidthAndHeight = "";

            if (isFullSize)

            {

                myWidthAndHeight = "";

            }

            else

            {

                myWidthAndHeight = "width='640' height='480'";

            }

            newtag = newtag + "<object classid='CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95' id='player' " + myWidthAndHeight + " standby='Please wait while the object is loaded...'>";

            newtag = newtag + "<param name='url' value='" + sourceUrl + "' />";

            newtag = newtag + "<param name='src' value='" + sourceUrl + "' />";

            newtag = newtag + "<param name='AutoStart' value='true' />";

/* -100 is fully left, 100 is fully right. */

newtag = newtag + "<param name='Balance' value='0' />";                    

/* Position in seconds when starting. */

newtag = newtag + "<param name='CurrentPosition' value='0' />";

/* Show play/stop/pause controls. */

 newtag = newtag + "<param name='showcontrols' value='true' />";

/* Allow right-click. */

newtag = newtag + "<param name='enablecontextmenu' value='true' />";

/* Start in full screen or not. */

             newtag = newtag + "<param name='fullscreen' value='" +                                                  isFullSize.ToString() + "' />";             

             newtag = newtag + "<param name='mute' value='false' />";

           

/* Number of times the content will play.*/

 newtag = newtag + "<param name='PlayCount' value='1' />";                 

/* 0.5=Slow, 1.0=Normal, 2.0=Fast*/

newtag = newtag + "<param name='rate' value='1.0' />";         

/* full, mini, custom, none, invisible */

newtag = newtag + "<param name='uimode' value='full' />";                  

/* Show or hide the name of the file.*/

newtag = newtag + "<param name='showdisplay' value='true' />";             

/* 0=lowest, 100=highest */

newtag = newtag + "<param name='volume' value='50' />";        

newtag = newtag + "</object>";  

            return newtag;

        }

    }

}

Output:

After Play

From this article we can see how to play a video file from web or from the offline.