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The VideoPlayer class defines a Source property used to specify the source of the video file, as well as an AutoPlay property. AutoPlay has a default setting of true, which means that the video should begin playing automatically after Source has been set:

The Source property is of type VideoSource, which is patterned after the Xamarin.Forms ImageSource abstract class, and its three derivatives, UriImageSource, FileImageSource, and StreamImageSource. No stream option is available for the VideoPlayer however, because iOS and Android do not support playing a video from a stream.

Video sources

The abstract VideoSource class consists solely of three static methods that instantiate the three classes that derive from VideoSource:

The UriVideoSource class is used to specify a downloadable video file with a URI. It defines a single property of type string:

Handling objects of type UriVideoSource is described below.

The ResourceVideoSource class is used to access video files that are stored as embedded resources in the platform application, also specified with a string property:

Handling objects of type ResourceVideoSource is described in the article Loading Application Resource Videos. The VideoPlayer class has no facility to load a video file stored as a resource in the .NET Standard library.

The FileVideoSource class is used to access video files from the device's video library. The single property is also of type string:

Handling objects of type FileVideoSource is described in the article Accessing the Device's Video Library.

The VideoSource class includes a TypeConverter attribute that references VideoSourceConverter:

This type converter is invoked when the Source property is set to a string in XAML. Here's the VideoSourceConverter class:

The ConvertFromInvariantString method attempts to convert the string to a Uri object. If that succeeds, and the scheme is not file:, then the method returns a UriVideoSource. Otherwise, it returns a ResourceVideoSource.

Setting the video source

All the other logic involving video sources is implemented in the individual platform renderers. The following sections show how the platform renderers play videos when the Source property is set to a UriVideoSource object.

The iOS video source

Two sections of the VideoPlayerRenderer are involved in setting the video source of the video player. When Xamarin.Forms first creates an object of type VideoPlayer, the OnElementChanged method is called with the NewElement property of the arguments object set to that VideoPlayer. The OnElementChanged method calls SetSource:

Later on, when the Source property is changed, the OnElementPropertyChanged method is called with a PropertyName property of 'Source', and SetSource is called again.

To play a video file in iOS, an object of type AVAsset is first created to encapsulate the video file, and that is used to create an AVPlayerItem, which is then handed off to the AVPlayer object. Here's how the SetSource method handles the Source property when it's of type UriVideoSource:

The AutoPlay property has no analogue in the iOS video classes, so the property is examined at the end of the SetSource method to call the Play method on the AVPlayer object.

In some cases, videos continued playing after the page with the VideoPlayer navigated back to the home page. To stop the video, the ReplaceCurrentItemWithPlayerItem is also set in the Dispose override:

The Android video source

The Android VideoPlayerRenderer needs to set the video source of the player when the VideoPlayer is first created and later when the Source property changes:

The SetSource method handles objects of type UriVideoSource by calling SetVideoUri on the VideoView with an Android Uri object created from the string URI. The Uri class is fully qualified here to distinguish it from the .NET Uri class:

The Android VideoView doesn't have a corresponding AutoPlay property, so the Start method is called if a new video has been set.

There is a difference between the behavior of the iOS and Android renderers if the Source property of VideoPlayer is set to null, or if the Uri property of UriVideoSource is set to null or a blank string. If the iOS video player is currently playing a video, and Source is set to null (or the string is null or blank), ReplaceCurrentItemWithPlayerItem is called with null value. The current video is replaced and stops playing.

Android does not support a similar facility. If the Source property is set to null, the SetSource method simply ignores it, and the current video continues to play.

The UWP video source

The UWP MediaElement defines an AutoPlay property, which is handled in the renderer like any other property:

The SetSource property handles a UriVideoSource object by setting the Source property of MediaElement to a .NET Uri value, or to null if the Source property of VideoPlayer is set to null:

Setting a URL source

With the implementation of these properties in the three renderers, it's possible to play a video from a URL source. The Play Web Video page in the VideoPlayDemos program is defined by the following XAML file:

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The VideoSourceConverter class converts the string to a UriVideoSource. When you navigate to the Play Web Video page, the video begins loading and starts playing when a sufficient quantity of data has been downloaded and buffered. The video is about 10 minutes in length:

On each of the platforms, the transport controls fade out if they're not used but can be restored to view by tapping the video.

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You can prevent the video from automatically starting by setting the AutoPlay property to false:

You'll need to press the Play button to start the video.

Similarly, you can suppress the display of the transport controls by setting the AreTransportControlsEnabled property to false:

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If you set both properties to false, then the video won't begin playing and there will be no way to start it! You would need to call Play from the code-behind file, or to create your own transport controls as described in the article Implementing Custom Video Transport Controls.

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The App.xaml file includes resources for two additional videos:

To reference one of these other movies, you can replace the explicit URL in the PlayWebVideo.xaml file with a StaticResource markup extension, in which case VideoSourceConverter is not required to create the UriVideoSource object:

Alternatively, you can set the Source property from a video file in a ListView, as described in the next article, Binding Video Sources to the Player.

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