I'm fairly sure that you can't play video files from APK resources. Video files are generally too large to distribute in APK's anyway.
Try putting your video on the sdcard and pass a pathname instead. On Oct 29, 10:33 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't setup the audio stream at the beginning, just tried it to see > if it has any effect, it didn't have any > > how do I use a uri to refer to a local resource in the res folder? > > what does error code -4 mean ? > > is there a list of supported video formats or something ? i know for > sure now its not related to the set display call as i removed it and > an error still occurs > i also tried the asynch version of prepare and it produced the same > result error (-4,0) > > On Oct 29, 11:54 pm, "Justin (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > mp.setAudioStreamType(2); > > > You should be using a constant here > > fromhttp://code.google.com/android/reference/android/media/AudioManager.html > > , I'm guessing AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC > > > Additionally, do you even need to set this? > > > Finally, try > > usinghttp://code.google.com/android/reference/android/media/MediaPlayer.ht...) > > . It should do the same things you're doing basically, but perhaps > > not. > > > Cheers, > > Justin > > Android Team @ Google > > > On Oct 26, 12:11 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I've been trying to play videos obtained as a raw resource, here is > > > what I did > > > MediaPlayer mp = new MediaPlayer(); > > > mp.setDisplay(getHolder()); > > > mp.setDataSource(getContext().getResources().openRawResourceFd(R.raw.myvide > > > o).getFileDescriptor()); > > > mp.setAudioStreamType(2); > > > mp.prepare(); > > > mp.start(); > > > ... > > > > this is not the exact code (deleted my last trial after it became > > > horrendous)! but thats basically what I did > > > > I always got this exception: > > > > error: Prepare failed.: status=0xFFFFFFFC > > > java.io.IOException: Prepare failed.: status=0xFFFFFFFC > > > > note that this worked perfectly with mp3s (without the setDisplay call > > > ofc) > > > > I Googled the exception, found out that it was a common problem but > > > haven't found any clear solutions, the only lead i found was > > > a guy saying that it was a file format problem, however i tried this > > > with many different 3gp, mp4 files > > > > was hoping anyone could help me with this issue... thanks in advance > > > and best regards to you all --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
