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An Hoa
An Hoa

Reputation: 1267

Video playback on UWP from HTTP stream

I tried to do a simple video playback following (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/controls-and-patterns/media-playback)[this article] by adding the following

<MediaPlayerElement AutoPlay="True" AreTransportControlsEnabled="True" Source="http://distribution.bbb3d.renderfarming.net/video/mp4/bbb_sunflower_1080p_30fps_normal.mp4" />

to my page XAML. But apparently, this does not work. Is this because we can only use local file for the Source?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 944

Answers (1)

Sunteen Wu
Sunteen Wu

Reputation: 10627

Is this because we can only use local file for the Source?

No, you can set http stream for the source. But the source property of MediaPlayerElement is IMediaPlaybackSource not Uri directly. You need to create MediaSource from Uri code behind. Code as follows.

XAML Code

 <MediaPlayerElement AutoPlay="True" AreTransportControlsEnabled="True" x:Name="mediaplayer" Height="400" Width="400" />

Code behind

  public MainPage()
  {
      this.InitializeComponent();
      Uri pathUri = new Uri("http://distribution.bbb3d.renderfarming.net/video/mp4/bbb_sunflower_1080p_30fps_normal.mp4");
      mediaplayer.Source = MediaSource.CreateFromUri(pathUri);
  }

You can also use MediaElement control which its source type is Uri directly.

<MediaElement Height="400" Width="400" AutoPlay="True" Source="http://distribution.bbb3d.renderfarming.net/video/mp4/bbb_sunflower_1080p_30fps_normal.mp4"></MediaElement>

Upvotes: 1

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