Azure media player not playing uploaded video on MS Azure Media Services

Question

I'm trying to use Azure Media Services. For demo purpose I've uploaded a video directly on the portal then clicked to encode this uploaded video in 'H264 Smooth Streaming 720p' preset.
This scheduled a encoding job which generated another (off-course larger) file which I published to get the manifest file URL.

I can play this video on the portal itself but when I use the given URL I get the following error:

A network error caused the video download to fail part-way. Please check your network connection or try again later. (0x20200000)

I'm taking help from this Channel9 video.

Please help me on this.

Answer 1

Please add &format=smooth to your URL and it should work!

http://amsplayer.azurewebsites.net/azuremediaplayer.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmspocforknorish.streaming.mediaservices.windows.net%2F72496130-cb2d-455e-9ccd-420fcb506f1d%2FBigBuckBunny.ism%2FManifest&format=smooth

Otherwise, on the page check "Advanced Options" checkbox and select Smooth from the Format dropdown and click on "Update" button.

Answer 2

When you paste your URL into the URL input, delete the existing sample URL that is already there. The existing URL looks like placeholder text but it is not. I fell into that trap too.

Here is a screenshot of your video playing and here is the URL of it playing.