Can this FileStream be the source for Embedded Windows Media Player on WebPage?
Can this FileStream be the source for Embedded Windows Media Player?
The code below launches Windows Media Player and indeed plays the video in a NEW window.
Is there any way I use this video stream and instead EMBED the PLAYER on my web page?
Background: I’ve renamed my video file from: myvideo.wmv to myvideo.wmv.resources to prevent anyone from being able to directly access it using its URL. This little trick relies on the fact that any files ending in “.resources” are forbidden from being served.
Problem:
When I use myvideo.wmv.resources with an EMBEDED windows media player (code further down), it first complains about the non-normal file extension, but if I click ok, will indeed plays embedded on my web page.
Any & All help will be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
Dim MyFileStream As FileStream
Dim FileSize As Long
MyFileStream = New FileStream(MapPath("/once/
FileSize = MyFileStream.Length
Dim Buffer(CInt(FileSize)) As Byte
MyFileStream.Read(Buffer, 0, CInt(FileSize))
MyFileStream.Close()
Response.ContentType = "video/x-ms-wmv"
Response.OutputStream.Writ
Response.Flush()
Response.Close()
End Sub
End Class
Here’s the embed which first complains about the file ext.
<object id='mediaPlayer' width="320" height="285"
classid='CLSID:22d6f312-b0
codebase='http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701'
standby='Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components...' type='application/x-oleobj
<param name='fileName' value="<% Response.Write(MyFileNamew
<param name='animationatStart' value='true'/>
<param name='transparentatStart' value='true'/>
<param name='autoStart' value="true"/>
<param name='showControls' value="true"/>
<param name='loop' value="false"/>
<param name="Volume" value="100"/>
<embed type='application/x-mplaye
pluginspage='http://microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/download/'
id='mediaPlayer2' name='mediaPlayer' displaysize='4' autosize='-1'
bgcolor='darkblue' showcontrols="true" showtracker='-1'
showdisplay='0' showstatusbar='-1' videoborder3d='-1' width="320" height="285"
src="<% Response.Write(myurl)%>" autostart="true" designtimesp='5311' loop="false">
</EMBED>
</object>
The code below launches Windows Media Player and indeed plays the video in a NEW window.
Is there any way I use this video stream and instead EMBED the PLAYER on my web page?
Background: I’ve renamed my video file from: myvideo.wmv to myvideo.wmv.resources to prevent anyone from being able to directly access it using its URL. This little trick relies on the fact that any files ending in “.resources” are forbidden from being served.
Problem:
When I use myvideo.wmv.resources with an EMBEDED windows media player (code further down), it first complains about the non-normal file extension, but if I click ok, will indeed plays embedded on my web page.
Any & All help will be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
Dim MyFileStream As FileStream
Dim FileSize As Long
MyFileStream = New FileStream(MapPath("/once/
FileSize = MyFileStream.Length
Dim Buffer(CInt(FileSize)) As Byte
MyFileStream.Read(Buffer, 0, CInt(FileSize))
MyFileStream.Close()
Response.ContentType = "video/x-ms-wmv"
Response.OutputStream.Writ
Response.Flush()
Response.Close()
End Sub
End Class
Here’s the embed which first complains about the file ext.
<object id='mediaPlayer' width="320" height="285"
classid='CLSID:22d6f312-b0
codebase='http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701'
standby='Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components...' type='application/x-oleobj
<param name='fileName' value="<% Response.Write(MyFileNamew
<param name='animationatStart' value='true'/>
<param name='transparentatStart' value='true'/>
<param name='autoStart' value="true"/>
<param name='showControls' value="true"/>
<param name='loop' value="false"/>
<param name="Volume" value="100"/>
<embed type='application/x-mplaye
pluginspage='http://microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/download/'
id='mediaPlayer2' name='mediaPlayer' displaysize='4' autosize='-1'
bgcolor='darkblue' showcontrols="true" showtracker='-1'
showdisplay='0' showstatusbar='-1' videoborder3d='-1' width="320" height="285"
src="<% Response.Write(myurl)%>" autostart="true" designtimesp='5311' loop="false">
</EMBED>
</object>
ASKER
Thanks. And yes, I'm trying to prevent direct browser access to certain WMV (and JPG) files without using IIS permissions. (My technique works fine for JPG).
Since I'm in a shared host environment, I can't redirect all wmv requests to the asp engine for handling. And, even if I could redirect certain types of file to asp for processing, I wouldn't want to redirect JPG's cause that would really kill performance.
In a nutshell, the embedded windows media player complains when the extension isn't .wmv (even though it is a valid video binary), and will play correctly if I click OK on the warning.
I suspect the solution is probably similar to what people do when they retrieve a blob of video from a sql server and want it played by an embedded windows media player on a web page.
Do they first have to extract the video and save it to a file, and then use the filename param for the embed object,
OR, do they somehow retrieve the video from the database, and pass it to the player using some other param?
Regards,
Mike
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Since I'm in a shared host environment, I can't redirect all wmv requests to the asp engine for handling. And, even if I could redirect certain types of file to asp for processing, I wouldn't want to redirect JPG's cause that would really kill performance.
In a nutshell, the embedded windows media player complains when the extension isn't .wmv (even though it is a valid video binary), and will play correctly if I click OK on the warning.
I suspect the solution is probably similar to what people do when they retrieve a blob of video from a sql server and want it played by an embedded windows media player on a web page.
Do they first have to extract the video and save it to a file, and then use the filename param for the embed object,
OR, do they somehow retrieve the video from the database, and pass it to the player using some other param?
Regards,
Mike
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Going at this from another direction, I wonder how the people who store videos inside a sql database do it?
Do they have to retrieve the video into a local file which would then be referenced as a filename from a windows media player control on a web page?
Mike
Do they have to retrieve the video into a local file which would then be referenced as a filename from a windows media player control on a web page?
Mike
You can configure your site to direct requests from wmv files to you special bit of code rather then the normal asp.net page handeler. In that code you can apply any logic you like before dishing up the media (or not).