How to Play Videos in ASP.NET MVC

Go to Visual Studio

File-> New-Project

The below screen gets displayed. Give any name of the application.

After clicking on ok , the below screen gets displayed: 

Select Empty and select the check box MVC

Let us create a custom action result, Now i have created a Folder with the Name CustomResult inside that i have created a new class File as shown Below

Write the below code in the PlayVideo.cs File 

public class PlayVideo:ActionResult

    {

        public override void ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context)

        {

            //The File Path 

            var videoFilePath = HostingEnvironment.MapPath("~/Videos/big_buck_bunny.mp4");

            //The header information 

            context.HttpContext.Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=Avent Anniversary.mp4");

            var file = new FileInfo(videoFilePath);

            //Check the file exist,  it will be written into the response 

            if (file.Exists)

            {

                var stream = file.OpenRead();

                var bytesinfile = new byte[stream.Length];

                stream.Read(bytesinfile, 0, (int)file.Length);

                context.HttpContext.Response.BinaryWrite(bytesinfile);

            }

        }

    }

Controller . Create a new controller with the Name VideoController

public class VideoController : Controller

    {

        // GET: Video

        public ActionResult Index()

        {

            return new PlayVideo();

        }

    }

Create a new Index 

Now run the application , Now You can see the below output  

Create another Contoller with the Name 

public class PlayVideoLiveController : Controller

    {

        // GET: PlayVideoLive

        public ActionResult Index()

        {

            return View();

        }

    }

Index.cs.html

<video width="320" height="240" controls autoplay="autoplay">

    <source src="@Url.Action("Index","Video")" type="video/mp4">

    </video>

Output: