Hi, if any of the android/sdk developer team is reading this - could one of you please briefly state whether it's generally possible to play videos from internal storage folder (i.e. /data/data/com.mypackage.app/ files/)? I googled for the problem I'm having and found that same question without any reply/solution yet at
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3038474/can-a-videoview-play-a-video-stored-on-internal-storage http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners/browse_thread/thread/69c6a19898bd73ae and also tried to look at the mediaplayer source code and android dev docs to find any hint but didn't find anything there either. Any hint on this is much appreciated. Thanks a lot! Mathias On Aug 4, 5:21 pm, Mathias Lin <m...@mathiaslin.com> wrote: > I have an application with a lot of media data (images and videos) that > were previously stored on the sdcard. With that, images and videos are > displayed fine in my app. > > Now, in order to secure the content more, I wanted to move the content > to the internal storage / data dir of the app, which I did. I copied all > media with a routine within my app to the data folder > (/data/data/com.myapp/some/folders/video.mp4) and adjusted the path in > my app so that it would look for the media in the internal storage data > directory and not the sdcard anymore. > > Everything works fine, images are being displayed (decoded) properly, > but videos don't play. They files do exist though - I do not get a > FileNotFound exception. But an IOException: > java.io.IOException: Prepare failed.: status=0xFFFFFFFC > > Why is that? Everything is handled within my one app and the videos have > been copied with the same routine as the images, thus having the same > permission settings. Looking at the stack trace, it all runs in process > id 18060). > > Why I cannot playback the video from internal storage? Or how can I? Thanks. > > V/MediaPlayer(18060): message received msg=100, ext1=-4, ext2=-4 > E/MediaPlayer(18060): SISO TEST MEDIA_ERROR > E/MediaPlayer(18060): error (-4, -4) > V/MediaPlayer(18060): signal application thread > V/MediaPlayer(18060): callback application > V/MediaPlayer(18060): back from callback > V/MediaPlayer(18060): prepare complete - status=-4 > E/MyApp(18060): vp Exception in btnVideoPause prep > E/MyApp(18060): java.io.IOException: Prepare failed.: status=0xFFFFFFFC > E/MyApp(18060): at android.media.MediaPlayer.prepare(Native Method) > E/MyApp(18060): at > com.myapp.android.activity.videoplayer.VideoPlayer.playVideo(VideoPlayer.ja > va:302) > E/MyApp(18060): at > com.myapp.android.activity.videoplayer.VideoPlayer.surfaceCreated(VideoPlay > er.java:432) > > E/MyApp(18060): at > android.view.SurfaceView.updateWindow(SurfaceView.java:532) > E/MyApp(18060): at > android.view.SurfaceView.dispatchDraw(SurfaceView.java:339) > E/MyApp(18060): at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:1638) > E/MyApp(18060): at > android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:1367) > E/MyApp(18060): at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:1638) > E/MyApp(18060): at > android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:1367) > E/MyApp(18060): at android.view.View.draw(View.java:6796) > E/MyApp(18060): at android.widget.FrameLayout.draw(FrameLayout.java:352) > E/MyApp(18060): at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:1640) > E/MyApp(18060): at > android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:1367) > E/MyApp(18060): at android.view.View.draw(View.java:6796) > E/MyApp(18060): at android.widget.FrameLayout.draw(FrameLayout.java:352) > E/MyApp(18060): at > com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.draw(PhoneWindow.jav > a:1901) > E/MyApp(18060): at android.view.ViewRoot.draw(ViewRoot.java:1407) > E/MyApp(18060): at > android.view.ViewRoot.performTraversals(ViewRoot.java:1163) > E/MyApp(18060): at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1727) > E/MyApp(18060): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) > E/MyApp(18060): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) > E/MyApp(18060): at > android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627) > E/MyApp(18060): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) > E/MyApp(18060): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521) > E/MyApp(18060): at > com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java: > 871) > E/MyApp(18060): at > com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:629) > E/MyApp(18060): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) > I/MediaPlayer(18060): Info (1,26) -- 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
