Issues with playing video from url android

Question

I have my app playing a video from my server. Each video has various resolution qualities with links to each resolution. But sometimes there are some wrong links in my server.

How can I know when my VideoView has gotten the wrong link so that I can switch to another link with another resolution quality of the same video. Which event, or exception can I catch?

what's your video extension which is stored on server. – Harshit Rathi Oct 17 '13 at 16:56 — Harshit Rathi, Oct 17 '13 at 16:56

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 17 '13 at 19:13

For your videoView, implement an onErrorListenor and in the onError method, re-initialize your video player with another resolution.

Something like this:

videoView.setOnErrorListener(new MediaPlayer.OnErrorListener() {

        public boolean onError(MediaPlayer mp, int what, int extra) {           
            // In here, call your code to re-initialize the video;
        }
    });

Issues with playing video from url android

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