HTML 5 video streaming + Spring boot

Question

I have this controller:

@GetMapping(value = "videos/{id}/{name}")
@ResponseBody
public final ResponseEntity
retrieveResource(@PathVariable(value = "id") final String id,
                 @PathVariable(value = "name") final String name) throws Exception {

    File initialFile = new File(id + name);
    InputStream targetStream = new FileInputStream(initialFile);

    HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
    headers.setContentType(MediaType.valueOf("video/mp4"));
    headers.set("Accept-Ranges", "bytes");
    headers.set("Expires", "0");
    headers.set("Cache-Control", "no-cache, no-store");
    headers.set("Connection", "keep-alive");
    headers.set("Content-Transfer-Encoding", "binary");

    return new ResponseEntity<>(new InputStreamResource(targetStream), headers, HttpStatus.OK);

}

when I access using the browser http://localhost:7080/videos/2/3

I see the video, but not when I put it in a HTML page:

user_13942448 · Answer

Your Java code looks fine. The problem has to do with your HTML.

Please, try instead:

The video format is usually not indicated unless you have several ones. For example:

You can include other attributes like autoplay or muted. Please, see the relevant documentation on MDN.

HTML 5 video streaming + Spring boot

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