How to play mp4 video in videoview in android

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I am working on video player application  I want to play  mp4 video in native videoview  I am not able to play video using url  I am getting error Sorry this video cannot be played and also I am not able to play downloaded video in native videoview   My code for playing video in videoview   String mUrl    http   www servername com projects projectname videos 1361439400 mp4    VideoView mVideoView     VideoView findViewById R id videoview  videoMediaController   new MediaController this   mVideoView setVideoPath mUrl   videoMediaController setMediaPlayer mVideoView   mVideoView setMediaController videoMediaController   mVideoView requestFocus    mVideoView start      Kindly share your ideas for the same    Thanks

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Check the format of the video you are rendering. Rendering of mp4 format started from API level 11 and the format must be mp4(H.264)

I encountered the same problem, I had to convert my video to many formats before I hit the format: Use total video converter to convert the video to mp4. It works like a charm.

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Finally it works for me   private VideoView videoView   videoView    VideoView  findViewById R id videoView    Uri video   Uri parse  http   www servername com projects projectname videos 1361439400 mp4    videoView setVideoURI video   videoView setOnPreparedListener new MediaPlayer OnPreparedListener        Override          public void onPrepared MediaPlayer mp           mp setLooping true          videoView start                Hope this would help others

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I m not sure that is the problem but what worked for me is calling mVideoView start    inside the mVideoView setOnPreparedListener event callback   For example   Uri uriVideo   Uri parse  lt your link here gt     MediaController mediaController   new MediaController mContext   mediaController setAnchorView mVideoView   mVideoView setMediaController mediaController   mVideoView setVideoURI uriVideo   mVideoView requestFocus     mVideoView setOnPreparedListener new MediaPlayer OnPreparedListener           Override      public void onPrepared MediaPlayer mp                   mVideoViewPeekItem start

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In Kotlin you can do as  val videoView   findViewById lt VideoView gt  R id videoView             If url is from raw       val url    quot android resource    quot    packageName          toString      quot   quot    R raw video           If url is from network     val url    quot http   www servername com projects projectname videos 1361439400 mp4 quot       val video           Uri parse url      videoView setVideoURI video      videoView setOnPreparedListener          videoView start

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Use Like this   Uri uri   Uri parse URL     Declare your url here   VideoView mVideoView     VideoView findViewById R id videoview  mVideoView setMediaController new MediaController this           mVideoView setVideoURI uri   mVideoView requestFocus    mVideoView start      Another Method     String LINK    type here the link     VideoView mVideoView     VideoView  findViewById R id videoview     MediaController mc   new MediaController this     mc setAnchorView videoView     mc setMediaPlayer videoView     Uri video   Uri parse LINK     mVideoView setMediaController mc     mVideoView setVideoURI video     mVideoView start      If you are getting this error Couldn t open file on client side  trying server side Error in Android  and also Refer this  Hope this will give you some solution

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MP4 is just a container - the video and audio stream inside it will both be encoded in different formats   Android natively only supports certain types of formats  This is the list here   Make sure the video and audio encoding type is supported  Just because it says  mp4  doesn t automatically mean it should be playable

[android] How to play .mp4 video in videoview in android?

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