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 video/mp4; however I am unable to seek backwards.

Dropping the same video into an S3 bucket yields the desired result so I am ruling out problems with the content.

Do I need to configure the Storage role in a specific way to serve video content?

Answer 1

it was not clear for me from @smarx's answer how to set that for my blob container - but after some googling i found the code below. Just execute it in LINQPad, and video will start streaming:

var storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse("AccountName=<accountName>;AccountKey=<accountKeyBase64>;DefaultEndpointsProtocol=http");
var blobClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudBlobClient();

// Get the current service properties
var serviceProperties = blobClient.GetServiceProperties();

// Set the default service version to 2011-08-18 (or a higher version like 2012-03-01)
serviceProperties.DefaultServiceVersion = "2011-08-18";

// Save the updated service properties
blobClient.SetServiceProperties(serviceProperties);