C# Streams Help

Ziycon

I've been playing around with trying to get a stream to display on a windows form but having soooooo much trouble, i'm not sure when to go after this:

HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(sourceURL);
req.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password);
WebResponse resp = req.GetResponse();
Stream stream = resp.GetResponseStream();

How do i take the stream and show it on a windows form, in a picture box or a panel!?
Any help much appreciated as always.

Ginger

Quickly

StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
panel1.text = reader.ReadToEnd();

Ziycon

Ginger wrote: »

Quickly

StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
panel1.text = reader.ReadToEnd();

That wont work for a video stream though, i can capture a still jpg image from the camera buy doing:

WebResponse resp = req.GetResponse();
Stream stream = resp.GetResponseStream();

while ((read = stream.Read(buffer, total, 1000)) != 0)
{
     total += read;
}

Bitmap bmp = (Bitmap)Bitmap.FromStream(new MemoryStream(buffer, 0, total));

Having trouble getting and displaying a constent stream, the code below retreives the video stream but dispite all my efforts i can't get it to display in a picturebox or pane!??

HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(sourceURL);
req.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password);
WebResponse resp = req.GetResponse();
Stream stream = resp.GetResponseStream();

Ginger

You didnt say it was an image

Fire it into a byte array and then write the file out as a jpg which you can then load into your panel etc

byte[] response = resp.ToArray();


BUT...

Havent tested this but should do it...

using System.Drawing

PictureBox1.Image = Image.FromStream(resp);

//resp is your memory stream from your HttpWebResponse


Edit: its a video stream you want to display.. will come back to you

Ginger

Have a look at DirectShow.NET http://sourceforge.net/projects/directshownet/

And this sample http://www.codeproject.com/KB/directx/directshowmediaplayer.aspx