Importing Video via the ContentPipeline can only be done with WMV video files. It’s very hard to get the video format and encoding right, there is a lot of WMV importer complaining about corrupt files etc. But if you do get ‘em right the next hurdle is to get is displayed the right way.

I’m using a SpriteBatch to display the video, I’ve managed to display it with a scale, but different types of aspect ratio’s aren’t working yet.

Code:

private SpriteBatch _sb;

private Video _video;

private VideoPlayer _videoPlayer;

private Vector2 _videoPosition;

_sb = new SpriteBatch(TeddyGame.Graphics.GraphicsDevice);

_video = Content.Load<Video>(“filename”);

_videoPlayer = new VideoPlayer();

_videoPosition = new Vector2(_g.GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Width – (_video.Width / 10) – 10,0);

_sb.Draw(_videoPlayer.GetTexture(),

_videoPosition,

null,

Color.White,

0, //rotation

_videoPosition),

0.1f, //scale

SpriteEffects.None,

1);//index (front back)

Perhaps it’s possible to create a larger box around the video and change the ratio of the video and let the draw encapsulate it.