Playing audio/video stored in Android assets folder with vlc and fd not working

Question

libvlc has support to accept a file descriptor as a valid piece of media. AssetManager allows you to grab an asset as a file descriptor. If I feed the assets file descriptor to libvlc, nothing plays and it stops immediately after attempting to play from the file descriptor. Is there a reason this doesn't work like this?

Answer 1

So it seems the reason is that the fd given by any AssetManager asset is actually the fd for the whole application package. It is expected that you seek to the place given by getStartOffset. Looks like I need to find a way to inform libvlc about this.