Hi justin, In media player Api of android we can start media player after setting datasource as a fd.
So i opened filedescriptor of an inet socket and passed fd to setdatasource for the mediapalyer.. But my application exit with the following crash.... 01-29 17:40:24.041: ERROR/MediaPlayerService(59): offset error 01-29 17:40:24.048: ERROR/MediaPlayer(5682): Unable to to create media player 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): error: setDataSourceFD failed.: status=0x80000000 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): java.io.IOException: setDataSourceFD failed.: status=0x80000000 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.media.MediaPlayer.setDataSource(Native Method) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.media.MediaPlayer.setDataSource(MediaPlayer.java:749) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at com.srcb.httpstream.HttpStreamingDemo.playVideo(HttpStreamingDemo.java: 171) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at com.srcb.httpstream.HttpStreamingDemo.surfaceCreated(HttpStreamingDemo.java: 90) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.view.SurfaceView.updateWindow(SurfaceView.java:532) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.view.SurfaceView.dispatchDraw(SurfaceView.java:339) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:1638) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:1367) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:1638) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:1367) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.view.View.draw(View.java:6743) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.widget.FrameLayout.draw(FrameLayout.java:352) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:1640) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:1367) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:1638) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:1367) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.view.View.draw(View.java:6743) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.widget.FrameLayout.draw(FrameLayout.java:352) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow $DecorView.draw(PhoneWindow.java:1842) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.view.ViewRoot.draw(ViewRoot.java:1407) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.view.ViewRoot.performTraversals(ViewRoot.java:1163) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1727) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit $MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:858) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616) 01-29 17:45:48.148: ERROR/MediaPlayerDemo(5682): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) Following is the snippet of code String host="192.168.16.6"; String file="/Video/nasif/1/1.mp4"; Charset charset = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1"); CharsetEncoder encoder = charset.newEncoder(); SocketChannel channel = null; InetSocketAddress socketAddress = new InetSocketAddress(host, 8080); channel = SocketChannel.open(); channel.connect(socketAddress); String request = "GET " + file + " \r\n\r\n"; channel.write(encoder.encode(CharBuffer.wrap(request))); Socket socket=channel.socket(); ParcelFileDescriptor pfd=ParcelFileDescriptor.fromSocket(socket); // path="http://192.168.16.6:8080/Video/nasif/1/1.mp4"; mMediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer(); FileDescriptor fd=pfd.getFileDescriptor(); fd.sync(); mMediaPlayer.setDataSource(fd); // pfd.close(); mMediaPlayer.setDisplay(holder); mMediaPlayer.prepare(); mMediaPlayer.setOnBufferingUpdateListener(this); mMediaPlayer.setOnCompletionListener(this); mMediaPlayer.setOnPreparedListener(this); mMediaPlayer.setOnVideoSizeChangedListener(this); mMediaPlayer.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC); Awaiting your reply.... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. 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