I am trying to run a remote progressive downloadable mp4 file using
VideoView.
It is giving MediaPlayer error -1 and VideoView error -1.
I do not know what does it mean?

Could any one help please?

Thanks

On Sep 20, 9:36 am, Dan Walmsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any idea when RTSP will be fixed?
>
> Or, at least some form of MP3 streaming? Happy to retrieve directly
> via HTTP if necessary, but my app absolutely _requires_ live, ongoing
> mp3 streaming at a minimum. It's strange to me that it wouldn't work,
> given Android's out-of-the-box support for streaming video formats
> like 3GPP/MP4/etc directly.
>
> Don't make me rewrite it for iPhone ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Dan
>
> On Aug 29, 4:58 am, "Justin (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I don't believe RTSP will work in the emulator. The emulator currently
> > has some issues with handling UDP packets, which RTSP uses. Sorry.
>
> > Regards,
> > Justin
> > Android Team @ Google
>
> > On Aug 28, 3:02 am, jayant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi All,
>
> > > Can anyone post an rtsp link which works fine..
> > > gunaaa, can you please provide the external URL that was played..
>
> > > All I am doing here is setting the path variable in the API
> > > Demo(MediaPlayerDemo) example to different links
>
> > > But none seems to work...In the error log  I am getting following
> > > error:
> > > 08-28 15:08:59.894: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(749): error: Prepare
> > > failed.: status=0xFFFFFFFF
>
> > > Justin, can you plz explain this:
>
> > > code snippet:
>
> > > ***************************************************************************­**********************************
> > >  case STREAM_VIDEO:
> > >                     /*
> > >                      * TODO: Set path variable to progressive
> > > streamable mp4 or
> > >                      * 3gpp format URL. Http protocol should be used.
> > >                      * Mediaplayer can only play "progressive
> > > streamable
> > >                      * contents" which basically means: 1. the movie
> > > atom has to
> > >                      * precede all the media data atoms. 2. The clip
> > > has to be
> > >                      * reasonably interleaved.
> > >                      *
> > >                      */
>
> > >                     path = "rtsp://172.17.5.81:80/
> > > sample_h264_100kbit.mp4";
> > >                     if (path == "") {
> > >                         // Tell the user to provide a media file URL.
> > >                         Toast
> > >                                 .makeText(
> > >                                         MediaPlayerDemo_Video.this,
> > >                                         "Please edit
> > > MediaPlayerDemo_Video Activity,"
> > >                                                 + " and set the path
> > > variable to your media file URL.",
> > >                                         Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
>
> > >                     }
>
> > >                     break;
>
> > >             }
>
> > >             // Create a new media player and set the listeners
> > >             mMediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
> > >             mMediaPlayer.setDataSource(path);
> > >            // dialog.setMessage("set data source"+path);
> > >            // dialog.show();
> > >             mMediaPlayer.setDisplay(holder);
> > >             mMediaPlayer.prepare();
> > >             mMediaPlayer.setOnBufferingUpdateListener(this);
> > >             mMediaPlayer.setOnCompletionListener(this);
> > >             mMediaPlayer.setOnPreparedListener(this);
>
> > > mMediaPlayer.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
>
> > > ***************************************************************************­*******************************************
> > > On Aug 26, 12:01 pm, gunaaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > Try Using Streams from any external URL... it will play your file...
> > > > Changing the format is time expensive...- Hide quoted text -
>
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