[android-developers] Re: Is VideoView Broken?
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. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Is VideoView Broken?
Ahhh. Thanks for your response. The emulator's behavior makes a lot more sense now. I'll try out what you suggest. Is this in the documentation anywhere? I looked around and everything I can find seems to say that video and audio are handled the same way. Maybe I just missed it, but if not this sort of information would be useful to have in an obvious place. On Feb 11, 2:12 am, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.com wrote: 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. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: Is VideoView Broken?
Audio and video *are* handled the same way. The problem you're running in to is twofold: 1) The string res/raw/yourfile.ext is a relative path to a file and does not refer to a resource compiled in to your apk. If you want to refer to a resource, you generally use its resource ID, e.g. something like R.raw.yourfile 2) while MediaPlayer can work with resource IDs and file descriptors, VideoView currently only handles Uris and paths. Because of this, if you want to play video from a resource, you will either have to use MediaPlayer directly, or have your own content provider or copy the file to a temporary place as Dave suggested. On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Brendan raven...@gmail.com wrote: Ahhh. Thanks for your response. The emulator's behavior makes a lot more sense now. I'll try out what you suggest. Is this in the documentation anywhere? I looked around and everything I can find seems to say that video and audio are handled the same way. Maybe I just missed it, but if not this sort of information would be useful to have in an obvious place. On Feb 11, 2:12 am, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.com wrote: 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. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
