Hi,

     I am new to xna, I want to play a video file in the starting of the game....The movie size is 6.33 MB....  i added the reference of Scurvy.Media and Scurvy.Media.Pipeline..... I wrote the code in function loadcontent() as

ContentManager content = new ContentManager(Services);
 
Video vid = content.Load<Video>(

"mesh/start"); //start.avi is my file name
 
vid.Loop = false; 
 
vid.Play();

in update method i given as

vid.Update();

But i am getting a very lengthy error like

Error 1 Building content threw OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown.
   at System.IO.MemoryStream.set_Capacity(Int32 value)
   at System.IO.MemoryStream.EnsureCapacity(Int32 value)
   at System.IO.MemoryStream.Write(Byte[ buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 count)
   at System.IO.BinaryWriter.Write(Byte[ buffer)
   at Scurvy.Media.Pipeline.Video.PlatformSurface.x86Surface.WriteToXnb(ContentWriter output, Byte[ pix) in C:\Dev\codeplex\ScurvyMedia\Scurvy.Media\Scurvy.Media.Pipeline\Video\PlatformSurface.cs:line 57
   at Scurvy.Media.Pipeline.Video.VidContentWriter`1.Write(ContentWriter output, T value) in C:\Dev\codeplex\ScurvyMedia\Scurvy.Media\Scurvy.Media.Pipeline\Video\VidContentWriter.cs:line 44
   at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.Serialization.Compiler.ContentTypeWriter`1.Write(ContentWriter output, Object value)
   at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.Serialization.Compiler.ContentWriter.InvokeWriter[T](T value, ContentTypeWriter writer)
   at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.Serialization.Compiler.ContentWriter.WriteObject[T](T value)
   at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.Serialization.Compiler.ContentCompiler.Compile(Stream output, Object value, TargetPlatform targetPlatform, String rootDirectory, String referenceRelocationPath)
   at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.BuildCoordinator.SerializeOutputAsset(BuildItem item, Object assetData, String outputFilename)
   at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.BuildCoordinator.SerializeAsset(BuildItem item, Object assetData)
   at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.BuildCoordinator.BuildAssetWorker(BuildItem item)
   at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.BuildCoordinator.BuildAsset(BuildItem item)
   at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.BuildCoordinator.RunTheBuild()
   at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline.Tasks.BuildContent.RemoteProxy.RunTheBuild(BuildCoordinatorSettings settings, TimestampCache timestampCache, ITaskItem[ sourceAssets, String[& outputContent, String[& rebuiltContent, String[& intermediates, Dictionary`2& dependencyTimestamps, KeyValuePair`2[& warnings) C:\Projects\sample\Content\mesh\start.avi sample

If it is the problem with the file size please tell me what should be the maximum size of the file....... And what are the audio and video file formats which is supported by XNA....

                                                             Please help me to get out of this error
                                                                                 Thanks
                                                                                                         sandeep  

My understanding is that scurvy turns the video into individual fames, which then get run through the content pipeline as images (so it uses lots of memory and produces a big file). This may be causing your out of memory problem.
XNA doesn't have any native support for videos, however there are other options.
I did a rough and quick port of a very simple MPEG2 decoder a while ago (here), but it's xbox performance is pants, and there are potential licensing issues with XBLCG. There are apparently other ways, but others will have to help you out there (did blade3d support video?). I can't remember. There are also a number of XNA directShow filter based projects you can try, but these are PC only.

                       http://www.codeplex.com/XNADSPlayer/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=11066

                       http://www.codeplex.com/XNADSPlayer

                       http://www.codeproject.com/KB/game/VidTextureClassWebcamApp.aspx?                                                                                                              fid=441427&df=90&mpp=25&noise=3&sort=Position&view=Quick&select=2629225


                                                                     Thanks and regards
                                                                                    sandeep