user2087149
user2087149

Reputation: 131

Access videos posted in Windows Azure via Asp.Net

I need to recover videos that are published in Azure Web Site. (The site was created just for hosting videos in a folder (Media)). I cannot access these videos. My idea was to host a banal site and referenced by an XML file to display in a MediaElement control for Windows Phone 8.

1) How can I access these videos, because when I write the url where my videos are stored, I get an error 404. http://fetchvideos.azurewebsites.net/Media/Video2.mp4 I tried to change the access rights via FileZilla, but it was denied!

2) If there is no way to access them, you have another solution ? I need a link/nameFile.extension

Thank you and please, excuse my English !!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 470

Answers (2)

Nooodles
Nooodles

Reputation: 95

It may be a bit late, but this can help other people.

This error can come from missing MimeMaps in your configuration. You need to add the following in your web.config file:

<system.webServer>
  <staticContent>
    <mimeMap fileExtension=".mp4" mimeType="video/mp4"/>
    <mimeMap fileExtension=".ogv" mimeType="video/ogg"/>
    ...
</system.webServer>

And add all the types you need.

Source: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsazure/en-US/4bba6fa7-1553-4452-a795-c635b60d38ca/video-files-are-not-loaded-and-cannot-be-browsed

This worked for me!

Upvotes: 1

astaykov
astaykov

Reputation: 30903

The error you see states:

The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

Which most probably means you ran out of resources for your free Azure Website. Navigate to your Dashboard to check whether you still have resources free to server up your website.

Some restrictions that apply to Free and Shared instances for Azure WebSites are well described here. Most important for your case being:

165 MB of outbound data per day per sub region, up to 5 GB per region**; unlimited inbound data

So, you could very easily have already reached that limit serving videos.

Upvotes: 0

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