How to display .mov files in VB.NET

[altaafhussein]

Hi, the question explains my problem. How do you display a .mov video/audio file in a .net application using vb.net.

I have figured out how to display the video in asp.net with the following code

Code:

<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
            codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" 
            style="height: 372px; width: 392px">
            <param name="SRC" value="video.mov">
            <param name="AUTOPLAY" value="true">
            <param name="CONTROLLER" value="true">
            <param name="LOOP" value="false">
            <embed src="video.mov" width="160" height="180" autoplay="true"    controller="true" id="File" runat="server" 
                loop="false" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">
            </embed>
 </object>
 

/Code:

This works great, however i am collection the video files from a database and diaplaying them during certain conditions.

Therefore, I am using VB.NET as a code behind page. Either how do I change the file format to equal the correct file in VB.NET or is there somthing else i can use that will help me display a video/audio file via VB.NET

Thanks in advance

altaafhussein

[Frinavale]

Have you considered using Silverlight instead of an ActiveX to display your video.

Silverlight has a MediaElement that you can use to display videos. Apparently you can do some pretty cool stuff with a MediaElement in Silverlight.

I've never used it myself, and I'm not sure if it supports .MOV files, but I think it'd be worth checking out :)

[Plater]

I think if you give the embed tag an ID and say runat="server" in it. You can access its proeprty from the code file, where you should be able to set the src attribute to whatever filename you want

[altaafhussein]

Hi thanks for your replies i tried adding runat="server" but the src attribute cannot be accessed by the code behind page. Instaed i cheated. I created a literal control and built but the html embed tag.

Thanks for your replies in trying to help me get this sorted
altaafhussein

[Plater]

Yeah you might have had to use like setAttribute(name, value) (or whatever its called)