Is it possible to load a video in from file. Not thru the content pipline.

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To say i normally load from the content pipeline which is fine for like a intro video or such.

VideoController.video = content.Load

However lets say i want to allow the user to select a video from file in any folder on his drive to load it and play it. I wouldn’t want to have to build the file after the game is already installed or running.

Something like.

var s = GetUserSelectedFullFilePath();
VideoController.video = Video.FromFile(s);

I don’t see anyway to do it directly but id like to have that functionality is there a way to do this ?.

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No existing functionality, but I do not see why we couldn’t add a Video.FromUri(string, Uri) static method similar to Song.FromUri(string, Uri).

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Did this ever come to pass?