How to play videos in android from assets folder or raw folder

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I am trying to play a video in android emulator  I have the video in my assets folder as well as the raw folder But after doing some research still i cant play video in my emulator i am working on android 2 1  My video format is mp4 so i don t think that should be a problem Could anyone just give me an example code so that i can understand a bit more   The problem is that the VideoView that I need to display the Video will take only a URI or a File path to point to the Video    If I save the video in the raw or assets folder I can only get an input stream or a file descriptor and it seems nothing of that can be used to initialize the VideoView   Update  I took a closer look at the MediaPlayer example and tried to start a MediaPlayer with a FileDescriptor to the assets files as in the code below   SurfaceView videoView    SurfaceView  findViewById gettingStarted  SurfaceHolder holder   videoView getHolder    holder setType SurfaceHolder SURFACE TYPE PUSH BUFFERS   final MediaPlayer player   new MediaPlayer    player setDisplay holder    player setDataSource getAssets   openFd fileName  getFileDescriptor     player prepareAsync    player setOnPreparedListener new OnPreparedListener          Override    public void onPrepared MediaPlayer mp          mp start               Now I get a the following exception    java io FileNotFoundException  This file can not be opened as a file descriptor  it is probably compressed   It seems there is no other way then copying the file to the sdcard on startup and that seems like a waste of time and memory

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It sounds maybe like you have the same issue as i do. instead of using MP4, is 3GPP possible? i think i used like HandBrake or something as the video converter... you just need to make sure you have the right encoder, like H.264x or something. sorry for being a little vague, it's been a while. Also, if it's possible, don't bother worrying about android 2.1 anymore, and also, something things just WILL NOT WORK IN EMULATOR. so if it works on a lot of devices, then just assume it works (especially with different manufacurers)

here, you can read my problem and how i solved the issue (after a long time and no one had an answer). i explained in a lot more detail here: android media player not working

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Use the MediaPlayer API and the sample code  Put the media file in raw folder  Get the file descriptor to the file  mediaplayer setDataSource fd offset length   - its a three argument constructor  Then when onPreared   mediaplayer start

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Did you try to put manually Video on SDCard and try to play video store on SDCard        If it s working you can find the way to copy from Raw to SDcard here     android-copy-rawfile-to-sdcard-video-mp4

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Try   AssetFileDescriptor afd   getAssets   openFd fileName   player setDataSource afd getFileDescriptor   afd getStartOffset    afd getLength

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I found it     Uri raw uri   Uri parse  lt package name gt   R raw  lt video file name gt      Personnaly Android found the resource  but can t play it for now  My file is a  m4v

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In the fileName you must put the relative path to the file  without  asset  for example   player setDataSource      getAssets   openFd    media video mp4     getFileDescriptor

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I think that you need to look at this -- it should have everything you want    EDIT  If you don t want to look at the link -- this pretty much sums up what you d like      MediaPlayer mp   MediaPlayer create context  R raw sound file 1         mp start      But I still recommend reading the information at the link

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Perfectly Working since Android 1 6    getWindow   setFormat PixelFormat TRANSLUCENT   VideoView videoHolder   new VideoView this     if you want the controls to appear videoHolder setMediaController new MediaController this    Uri video   getUriFromRawFile context  R raw your raw file     if your file is named sherif mp4 and placed in  raw   use R raw sherif videoHolder setVideoURI video   setContentView videoHolder   videoHolder start     And then public static Uri getUriFromRawFile Context context   ResRaw int rawResourceId        return Uri Builder            scheme ContentResolver SCHEME ANDROID RESOURCE           authority context getPackageName             path String valueOf rawResourceId            build          Check complete tutorial

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VideoView myVideo    VideoView  rootView findViewById R id definition video view      Set video name  no extension  String myVideoName    my video      Set app package String myAppPackage    com myapp      Get video URI from raw directory Uri myVideoUri   Uri parse  android resource     myAppPackage   raw   myVideoName      Set the video URI myVideo setVideoURI myVideoUri      Play the video myVideo start      https   gist github com jrejaud b5eb1b013c27a1f3ae5f

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PlayVideoActivity java    public class PlayVideoActivity extends Activity         Override     public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState            super onCreate savedInstanceState           setContentView R layout activity play video            VideoView videoView    VideoView  findViewById R id video view           MediaController mediaController   new MediaController this           mediaController setAnchorView videoView           videoView setMediaController mediaController           videoView setVideoURI Uri parse  android resource       getPackageName           R raw documentariesandyou            videoView start              activity play video xml    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt       lt LinearLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      android layout width  match parent      android layout height  match parent      android gravity  center   gt        lt VideoView         android id    id video view          android layout width  match parent          android layout height  match parent   gt       lt  VideoView gt    lt  LinearLayout gt

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String UrlPath  android resource     getPackageName       R raw ur file name  videocontainer setVideoURI Uri parse UrlPath    videocontainer start      where videocontainer of type videoview

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MainCode  Uri raw uri Uri parse  android resource    lt package name gt   R raw  lt video file name gt     myVideoView  VideoView findViewbyID R idV Video view    myVideoView setVideoURI raw uri   myVideoView setMediaController new MediaController this    myVideoView start    myVideoView requestFocus      XML   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8    gt    lt LinearLayout     xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      android orientation  vertical      android layout width  fill parent      android layout height  fill parent  gt           lt VideoView             android id     Video View              android layout width  fill parent              android layout height  fill parent            gt   lt  LinearLayout gt

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If I remember well  I had the same kind of issue when loading stuff from the asset folder but with a database  It seems that the stuff in your asset folder can have 2 stats   compressed or not  If it is compressed  then you are allowed 1 Mo of memory to uncompress it  otherwise you will get this kind of exception  There are several bug reports about that because the documentation is not clear  So if you still want to to use your format  you have to either use an uncompressed version  or give an extension like  mp3 or  png to your file  I know it s a bit crazy but I load a database with a  mp3 extension and it works perfectly fine  This other solution is to package your application with a special option to tell it not to compress certain extension  But then you need to build your app manually and add  zip -0  option  The advantage of an uncompressed assest is that the phase of zip-align before publication of an application will align the data correctly so that when loaded in memory it can be directly mapped     So  solutions     change the extension of the file to  mp3 or  png and see if it works build your app manually and use the zip-0 option

[android] How to play videos in android from assets folder or raw folder?

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