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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