uploading and playing videos on a .net app on windows xp

Hello

I am trying to add video capabilities to an existing .net applicatioin, this is working fine for windows 7, but causing an issue with windows xp and my company can not upgrade everyone yet.

So far we are trying to standardize on a format of MP4, but I am open to using any format that will solve this issue and does not introduce new issues.

I need to allow the users to use a browse button to find the video file and upload it within the .net application and the video will be stored in a Oracle database.

I am told that the problem is that windows xp will not support a new enough version of windows media player to run an MP4 video.

Two products have been suggested to fix this issue:


K-lite – which has been tested and proven not to work.

VLC – which has been tested and seems to have an issue with .net

Whatever we end up using must work with the following:

Windows XP (we can not convert to Windows 7 yet)

.net

Videos will be stored in a database (is it my understanding the some video players will not work from a database)

Videos are supposed to be done professionally but may end up being done by end users, so it must be a format that is easy to work with

Thank you