Serving Video Content from Azure Blob Storage

it was not clear for me from @smarx's answer how to set that for my blob container - but after some googling i found the code below. Just execute it in LINQPad, and video will start streaming:

var storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse("AccountName=<accountName>;AccountKey=<accountKeyBase64>;DefaultEndpointsProtocol=http");
var blobClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudBlobClient();

// Get the current service properties
var serviceProperties = blobClient.GetServiceProperties();

// Set the default service version to 2011-08-18 (or a higher version like 2012-03-01)
serviceProperties.DefaultServiceVersion = "2011-08-18";

// Save the updated service properties
blobClient.SetServiceProperties(serviceProperties);

To anyone who wants to use the Azure CLI:

az storage account blob-service-properties update --account-name [account_name] --default-service-version '2020-10-02'

You may try setting the default version for your storage account to 2011-08-18: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2011/09/15/windows-azure-blobs-improved-http-headers-for-resume-on-download-and-a-change-in-if-match-conditions.aspx. It improves a couple things around range requests (probably what progressive download in your browser is doing). I haven't heard anything specific about video playback, but it can't hurt to try. :-)