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Hi Guys,

I've been messing around with VB.NET and was having trouble trying to get a video to play from my Dropbox account to the Windows Media Plugin in. Any ideas?

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I've never tried playing a video but you could always download the video in the background and then play it but honestly it would be better to use the HTML5 <video> tag in a document and just display _just_ the video. Just an idea.

I don't think video streaming works from dropbox because when you upload a video it doesn't give you a direct link it just plays it from it's flash player :?

CodenStuff wrote:

I don't think video streaming works from dropbox because when you upload a video it doesn't give you a direct link it just plays it from it's flash player :?

yes it doesn't give you a direct link but you can get a direct link . first right click download and select copy link then you will get a link like this



https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/lfv ... 7xU0Q&dl=1

now delete te hash now the link will look like this

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/lfvec/Video_.wmv?

then navigate to the link that's how you get a direct link

Sorry guys i forgot to mention that i had a direct link to the file and it in VLC media player and it streamed perfectly, but it doesn't seem to work on WMP can any of you guys suggest a media player component that would be able to perform this function?