On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:15 PM, bob <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have this code for playing back a movie:
>
> Movie_Player.play_movie("/mnt/sdcard/movie1.mpg", this);

Never hardwire paths. Use Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().

> public class Movie_Player {
>
>        public static void play_movie(String file_path, Activity a)
>        {
>                Intent intent = new Intent();
>                intent.setAction(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
>                File file = new File(file_path);
>                intent.setDataAndType(Uri.fromFile(file), "video/*");
>                a.startActivity(intent);
>        }
>
> }
>
> The problem is it pops up a list and makes the user choose the movie-
> player app.  Is there an easy
> way I can tell it to use Mobo Video Player
> (com.mobo.video.player.arm5)?

Please allow the user to choose whatever video player they want.

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