Video (.mp4) not getting downloaded in MVC

Question

In my view i have a link to download a .mp4 like below

<a href="@Href("~/Content/mm/Manual_Video.mp4")" target="_blank"> Download Video </a>

and i stored the Manual_Video.mp4 in Content folder but when I click on the link I am getting below error

404 - File or directory not found. The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

Any idea?

Edit

Download PDF

this link is working fine.

Do you have in your RouteConfig line like `routes.IgnoreRoute("Content/{*pathInfo}");`? Could be that it's wrong routing — teo van kot, Dec 10 '15 at 06:28

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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I check around and find this answer:

Add a MIME type with extension mp4 in IIS

But please note that you should set the MIME type video/mp4 instead of video/mpeg orelse in IE "Save Target As.." shows different format, and it also affects the default video player open by browser.

video/mpeg

File name: test.mpeg

Save as type: Movie Clip

video/mp4

File name: test.mp4

Save as type: MP4 Video

edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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answered Dec 10 '15 at 06:31

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thanks for the answer but the same code for downloading a .pdf is working fine i tried ur Content and its giving the same error ` Download PDF ` this is working fine. so i dont think issue in routing – Sachu Dec 10 '15 at 06:36
@Sachu i suppose problem is in IIS MIME types then. – teo van kot Dec 10 '15 at 06:40

Video (.mp4) not getting downloaded in MVC

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