Loading a video (mp4) file in android

Question

     VideoView v = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.VideoView01);
     Uri uri = Uri.parse("android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "vid.mp4");
     mc = new MediaController(this);
     v.setMediaController(mc);
     v.setVideoURI(uri);
     v.start();

An alertbox appears saying that the video cannot be played.Do you have a solution to this .

thanks in advance

either your uri to the file is faulty or the video file is corrupted please check both the options. — Ashwin N Bhanushali, Aug 24 '12 at 12:35
keep your video file in assets folder and then try to play it. — Ashwin N Bhanushali, Aug 24 '12 at 12:36
Or maybe the video format is not supported.. happens most of the times in earlier versions.. — Andro Selva, Aug 24 '12 at 12:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 24 '12 at 16:04

This is a linux filesystem permission issue. The location of the file is solely owned by your application. The MediaPlayer service ViewView relies on runs as a different "user" from a file system perspective.

The way I've solved this in the past is to create a custom VideoView extending SurfaceView that takes a FileDiscriptor as it's data source.

This side steps the issue by providing a connection to the data the is already open as far as the file system is concerned.

If your feeling frisky you could pull down the VideoView code from google and add a new setVideoFileDiscriptor method.

Loading a video (mp4) file in android

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