How to set content-type of media files stored on blob

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Hello there. I 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.

Can anyone help me out here? TIA
Jul 26, 2018 in Azure by cloudie_crank
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You can use the below way:

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.

answered Jul 26, 2018 by null_void
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