In your AVD Manager, you define how large of a virtual SD card to have
in the AVD. It's called "SD Card".

You then transfer files to it using the DDMS File Manager, or via the
adb push command.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:54 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Okay I'm still stuck trying to figure out how to use the SD card
> filesystem on the emulator. I followed the instructions in the
> documentation and created a sd card image using mksdcard. However, I
> cannot figure out how to push the test.mp4 file on to the image. The
> documentation mentions mtools but I cannot seem to find a version for
> Windows - all the downloads seem to be for Unix. Any ideas?
>
> On Jan 18, 3:57 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:45 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> > Thanks again for the reply. I actually subscribed to your books - they
>> > are well written.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> > I downloaded the video sample and tried to run it
>> > but the screen remains blank. However I suspect it is becuase it
>> > cannot find the file. It seems like it is designed run the file
>> > "test.mp4" on an SD card on a real device.
>>
>> Or a test.mp4 file on the emulated SD card on an emulator. It still
>> will not play well in an emulator, but the lack of the MP4 file will
>> not stop you.
>>
>> > Can I make the sample work on the emulator.
>>
>> Yes. Put a file named test.mp4 in the emulated SD card on the
>> emulator. The specific MP4 file I used in those screenshots is the
>> "Documentaries and You" video from here:
>>
>> http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/contest/finalists/
>>
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