Question

I am trying to play the Video file on IE8 using quick time but i am getting some kind of wierd message on the window

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if i copy the url and play in a new Tab i am able to play the video. any suggestion appreciated.

Fiddler Data

> HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: private Content-Length: 12172289
> Content-Type: video/quicktime Last-Modified: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:07:10
> GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes ETag: 0x8CE298D49679541 Server:
> Microsoft-IIS/7.0 x-ms-request-id:
> 9aa58ee1-e74e-4a42-ac76-2a90e4d05d33 x-ms-meta-Source:
> thepoint.contentconfiguration x-ms-meta-CreatedOn: 8/15/2011 6:06:21
> PM x-ms-meta-UpdatedOn: 4/28/2010 8:38:04 PM x-ms-meta-FileSize:
> 12172289 Server: Blob Service Version 1.0 Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
> X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Wed, 07 Sep
> 2011 13:15:24 GMT

Answer 1

Have you specified the MIME type mappings for quicktime in the IIS config (web.config)? Depending on the extension of your file and/or the URL, IIS would need to understand how to serve up the MIME type properly.

Something like

<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <staticContent>
            <mimeMap fileExtension=".mp4" mimeType="video/mp4" />
            <mimeMap fileExtension=".m4v" mimeType="video/m4v" />
     </staticContent>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration> 

may be required.

Using a web debug such as Firebug or Fiddler would also enable you to see the Content-type header coming back. That may provide you some clue as to what the server things its serving.

For example, if it believes that this url is a “text/plain”, its going to give you the text version of the file’s binary, which looks like what you are seeing.