# Video renderer

Media Blocks SDK .Net

The Video Renderer block is used to play the video stream on the selected part of the window or the screen, depending on the platform and UI framework.

A special platform-specific visual control, VideoView, is used for video rendering. For Windows, it will use DirectX. In most cases, SDK will use OpenGL for other platforms. Avalonia and MAUI cross-platform UI frameworks are supported.

You can use several video views and renderers to display the same video stream in different parts of the window or on other windows.

# Block info

Name: VideoRendererBlock.

Pin direction	Media type	Pins count
Input video	uncompressed video	one or more

# Video view

# The sample pipeline

graph LR;
    UniversalSourceBlock-->VideoRendererBlock;

# Sample code

// Create a pipeline
var pipeline = new MediaBlocksPipeline();

// create a source block
var filename = "test.mp4";
var fileSource = new UniversalSourceBlock(await UniversalSourceSettings.CreateAsync(new Uri(filename)));

// create a video renderer block
var videoRenderer = new VideoRendererBlock(pipeline, VideoView1);

// connect the blocks
pipeline.Connect(fileSource.VideoOutput, videoRenderer.Input);

// start the pipeline
await pipeline.StartAsync();

# Platforms

Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android.