new intent play android native video player

Question

Anyone know how to open new intent to play video from url in android using native video player.

My code as below

Intent intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
Uri data = Uri.parse(UriLink);
intent.setDataAndType(data, "video/*");
startActivity(intent);

when try to play video error msg with unable to play the video. I'm playing the video url http://player.vimeo.com/video/31240369. Any help will appreciated.

Duplicate? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1572107/android-intent-for-playing-video?rq=1 — Qben, Sep 03 '13 at 11:02
Possibly relevant if you have an older device http://vimeo.com/forums/help/topic:101891 — Ed Holloway-George, Sep 03 '13 at 11:07

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 03 '13 at 12:13

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That URL does not appear to lead to a video. It leads to a Web page. Specifying video/* will at best work if the URL points to an actual video (e.g., MP4 file); it will certainly not work if you point to a Web page.

answered Sep 03 '13 at 12:13

CommonsWare

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what i need to be done in order to get this work? Display the video using web page? or any others way – nick Sep 04 '13 at 04:00
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@user2688202: Ask Vimeo. – CommonsWare Sep 04 '13 at 11:19

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 29 '17 at 07:11

You can't play vimeo videos without using their SDK. If the videos are in the pro vimeo account, then you can get the mp4 urls which are playable outside the vimeo sdk.

However, there is a worked around, use following third party library, that will fetch you the mp4 video if you pass the vimeo videoId or the vimeo video URL; that mp4 url would be playable using any media player outside the vimeo sdk.

compile 'com.github.ed-george:AndroidVimeoExtractor:1.1.1'

(https://github.com/ed-george/AndroidVimeoExtractor)

new intent play android native video player

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