Playing an MP4 in a zip file through a network location

I'm building a video system, and have came across a problem of accessing a video held in a remote location. Now predicament is that I don't want to mess around with the zip file by extracting the data, this would take too long from a user perspective and would rather be able to open video file directly from within side the zip. My question is, is this possible? The ability to open a file is not something I've found within the DotNetZip library.

The only solution I've found is pointing VideoLAN at the zip file and playing it from there. However, doing this programmatically is something I'm massively struggling with, through the VideoLan DotNet for WinF开发者_JAVA技巧orm & WPF C# plugin and it's lack of examples. Just wondering is there any alternative means?

Why dont you use the VLC ActiveX Directly ,just import the AxVlc.dll to you're project ,than you can select the VLC Plugin from Toolbox in VS (VLC Plugin v2 prefered).

Than you can do something vlc.playlist.add("FileName",Null,""); than use vlc.playlist.play(); version's under 0.9.9 works with Loop ,new version's you should build the Loop Function by you're self.

What's the reason of compressing video files? They are already compressed, and far better than zip can do.