C#•13mo ago

Cant play video in MAUI

Hey I'm trying to play a background video in MAUI, my underlying code is:

<toolkit:MediaElement x:Name="BgVideo" Source="Resources/Raw/video.mp4" ShouldShowPlaybackControls="False"
          ShouldLoopPlayback="True" Aspect="AspectFill" ShouldAutoPlay="True"
          HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand"/>

<toolkit:MediaElement x:Name="BgVideo" Source="Resources/Raw/video.mp4" ShouldShowPlaybackControls="False"
          ShouldLoopPlayback="True" Aspect="AspectFill" ShouldAutoPlay="True"
          HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand"/>

however it doesn't play the video if i change the path to a URL it works fine, is my path wrong ?

3 Replies

Cattywampus•13mo ago

if it's MauiAssets (anything in your Raw folder) you'd do it like this Source="embed://MyFile.mp4" https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/communitytoolkit/maui/views/mediaelement see the example there

kevinOP•13mo ago

Thanks!

Cattywampus•13mo ago

feel free to close this if it answered your question

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