Yeah, I used that mechanism at first, but what ends up happening is the Intent gets processed by the web browser which then opens the movie. When the video is done playing, an empty browser window is left open that the user has to back button through. It is a crappy user experience.
I guess I have to write my own movie viewer. Thanks for your help Jeff On Dec 6, 11:46 am, "Mark Murphy" <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > > Hi, I have been using the intent "android.intent.action.VIEW" on the > > com.android.camera/.MovieView class to initiate playing of MP4 movies > > from within my application. > > You do realize that com.android.camera.MovieView is not in the SDK and > should not be directly invoked by Android SDK applications, right? > > Dump the component name, add the appropriate MIME type to your Intent > (e.g., video/mp4), and try that. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com > Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books.html -- 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
