VideoPlayerSample - can we use a smaller video file?

[seanmcveigh]

Sorry for the flurry of gripes... one of the reasons I dislike git is that it forces me to pull down all files in a repository, even though I'm only interested in a few... I guess this is a good argument in favor of more repos instead of fewer ;)
I just spent about half an hour doing a git pull on this repo... connection was only getting between 20 and 70KB/s for me, which wouldn't be too terrible except that there are some large files in the repo.

VideoPlayerSample ships a ~13MB video file as an asset. Is there any chance we could dial back the bitrate, or use a shorter video? Maybe get it down to only a couple of megs?

Just a request.

[surashid]

Hey @seanmcveigh ,

In the sample I created (not updated yet, I know; keep trying to add minor improvements and other tasks keep getting in the way), I packaged a media file for specifically two reasons:

1. To show how to manage paths using MediaPlayer API (when packaged in "assets"); at that time, it was somewhat limited

2. To allow playback very easily (just be deploying), without even requiring internet or having to upload video files to the device. The video length was also sufficiently long to show off some video progress/seek capabilities. With all the scaling/gesture handling features shown, a local playback was also preferred over remote playback.

Despite these two reasons, do you think other developers would still prefer the remote URI instead? I figured a 12 MB download wouldn't be too bad, given the pros behind it (for developers who are totally to the phone and platform).

Cheers,
Rashid