Serving Video Content from Azure Blob Storage

Question

I am trying to serve MP4 Video content from Azure Blob Storage. I can get the video to play in modern browsers by ensuring that the Blob\'s Content Type is set to vid

Answer 1

You may try setting the default version for your storage account to 2011-08-18: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2011/09/15/windows-azure-blobs-improved-http-headers-for-resume-on-download-and-a-change-in-if-match-conditions.aspx. It improves a couple things around range requests (probably what progressive download in your browser is doing). I haven't heard anything specific about video playback, but it can't hurt to try. :-)