Ahhh. Thanks for your response. The emulator's behavior makes a lot
more sense now. I'll try out what you suggest.
Is this in the documentation anywhere? I looked around and everything
I can find seems to say that video and audio are handled the same way.
Maybe I just missed it, but if not this sort of information would be
useful to have in an obvious place.
On Feb 11, 2:12 am, Dave Sparks <davidspa...@android.com> wrote:
> You can't play a resource file using VideoView by passing a pathname.
> The file doesn't exist; it's just a binary blob inside the APK file.
> If you create a content provider, you could pass a URI to setVideo().
> I'm not entirely sure that will work because the video file might be
> compressed inside the APK. We exclude audio files from compression,
> but I don't video files are excluded because they don't make a lot of
> sense as a resource - they are too big.
>
> The simplest way to get this working is to copy the file to the SD
> card. You can either "adb push" the file to the SD card or UMS mount
> the SD card and copy it over from your host computer. Then modify your
> setVideo(path) to "/sdcard/movie.mp4" (or whatever directory you put
> it in on the SD card).
>
> On Feb 10, 11:21 pm, Brendan <raven...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So I'm trying to do this:
>
> > VideoView video_view = new VideoView(context);
> > video_view.setVideoPath("res/raw/movie.mp4");
> > video_view.setMediaController(new MediaController(context));
> > video_view.requestFocus();
> > video_view.start();
>
> > Seems simple, but even with video files that I've seen work in other
> > video players on the phone, I keep getting the "Sorry, this video
> > cannot be played" message. And this associated debug info:
>
> > INFO/MediaPlayer-JNI(234): prepareAsync: surface=0x1a3ff0 (id=1)
> > ERROR/MediaPlayer(234): Error (-4,0)
> > DEBUG/VideoView(234): Error: -4,0
>
> > Any ideas as to what those errors mean or how I can fix this?
>
> > If this is not how I should be using VideoView please let me know. I'd
> > appreciate being sent in the right direction for how to get a local
> > video file playing within a view.
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