Chrome browser videos download instead of playing

If future visitors, like me, are landing here because they're querying how to cause or prevent playback of a file from a direct link to a video it may be worth noting that the Content Type the server declares for the file can play a part. This will auto play in the browser: Content-Type: video/mp4 This will . 1. Create a slide and insert your video there. 2. Create a custom resources tab on player and add a trigger. 3. The trigger should open the slide with video (Treat that slide as lightbox). 4. This will run the video instead of asking a user to download. I hope this helps. PS: This will work if you have a single video. In case you have more than one video.

I'm on Windows 8 and using latest Chrome (also tried latest Chrome beta). I installed VLC with full options. Every time I drag bltadwin.ru to the Chrome window, Chrome just "downloads" the file and leaves it in the bottom download bar. If I open it, VLC just opens (outside the browser). How to Download Video Instead of Playing in Web Browser. To Download Video Instead of Playing you have to create a link to the url or web address of the video. The videos default and expected behavior is to play but the default behavior of a link is to navigate to the web address. Then, the file automatically opens instead of saving when I download in Chrome. To change this setting, start by clicking the "Tools" icon on your Chrome browser. (Updated 7/17/ - click the 3 DOTS icon) When you click on the three small lines dots (tools icon), you'll see a dropdown box appear. Click on "Settings" and you'll see a new page.

It's working fine in all browser except Chrome,When i run my website on chrome and try to play MP4 video,It starts downloading instead of playing.I don't want that any one should download my video,It should just play from bltadwin.ru page on any browser but no user should be able to download it. If you set the Content-Disposition as inline, then your video/content will play within the browser and if you set Content-Disposition as attachment, then your browser will download it. More info on this can be found here. The Chrome browser will typically download your files rather than open them. You see this happening in the StaffCV app when you click on a CV, Cover Letter or other attachment. However, you can 'tell' Chrome to open the file instead of download it.