Set Content-type of media files stored on Blob

azure content-type jwplayer
Rahul Patwa picture Rahul Patwa · Apr 6, 2012 · Viewed 60.2k times · Source

We have a website hosted on Azure. It is media based, and we are using JWPlayer to playback media with HTTP pseudostreaming. The media files are stored on blob in 3 formats - mp4, ogg, webm.

The issue is the content type of media files is set as application/octet-stream for all types. Due to this there are some issues in media playback and progress bar.

How can I set the appropriate Content-type of files stored on blob (like - video/mp4, video/ogg, video/webm)?

I do not want to do it manually for each file by going in blob interface. There must be some other way to do it which I am not aware of. Perhaps a config file, settings file, etc sorts. Or perhaps a code block to set up the Content-type for all files stored in a folder.

Any suggestions? Thanks

Answer

user94559 picture user94559 · Apr 6, 2012

This should work:

var storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse("YOURCONNECTIONSTRING");
var blobClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudBlobClient();

var blobs = blobClient
    .GetContainerReference("thecontainer")
    .ListBlobs(useFlatBlobListing: true)
    .OfType<CloudBlockBlob>();

foreach (var blob in blobs)
{
    if (Path.GetExtension(blob.Uri.AbsoluteUri) == ".mp4")
    {
        blob.Properties.ContentType = "video/mp4";
    }
    // repeat ad nauseam
    blob.SetProperties();
}

Or set up a dictionary so you don't have to write a bunch of if statements.

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