[ANSWERED] java – Android VideoView I get randomly a “Can’t play this video” error

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Solution 1 :

Try this

   Uri uri= Uri.parse(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath()+"/yourvideopath");

 videoView.setVideoURI(uri);
videoView.start();

You can get the path of your video stored in external storage by using this.
Replace “/yourvideopath” with your video path such as /dcim/camera/mov_bbb.mp4

Problem :

I would like to play a video using VideoView:

videoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse("http://192.168.1.10:7777/mov_bbb.mp4"));
videoView.start();

It works randomly. 20% of the time the video is loaded, and it starts. But 80% of the time, I get this error:

Can't play this video

This is outputted to the console:

W/MediaPlayer: Couldn't open http://192.168.1.10:7777/...
    java.io.FileNotFoundException: No content provider: http://192.168.1.10:7777/mov_bbb.mp4
        at android.content.ContentResolver.openTypedAssetFileDescriptor(ContentResolver.java:1673)
        at android.content.ContentResolver.openAssetFileDescriptor(ContentResolver.java:1503)
        at android.content.ContentResolver.openAssetFileDescriptor(ContentResolver.java:1420)
        at android.media.MediaPlayer.attemptDataSource(MediaPlayer.java:1101)
        at android.media.MediaPlayer.setDataSource(MediaPlayer.java:1073)
        at android.media.MediaPlayer.setDataSource(MediaPlayer.java:1097)
        at android.widget.VideoView.openVideo(VideoView.java:412)
        at android.widget.VideoView.access$2200(VideoView.java:83)
        at android.widget.VideoView$7.surfaceCreated(VideoView.java:694)
        at android.view.SurfaceView.updateSurface(SurfaceView.java:758)
        at android.view.SurfaceView$2.onPreDraw(SurfaceView.java:155)
        at android.view.ViewTreeObserver.dispatchOnPreDraw(ViewTreeObserver.java:1088)
        at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:2745)
        at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1721)
        at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:7598)
        at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:966)
        at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:790)
        at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:725)
        at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:951)
        at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:883)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:100)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7356)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:492)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:930)
V/MediaHTTPService: MediaHTTPService([email protected]): Cookies: null
D/EGL_emulation: eglMakeCurrent: 0xe331a180: ver 3 0 (tinfo 0xe330f830)
V/MediaHTTPService: makeHTTPConnection: CookieHandler ([email protected]) exists.
V/MediaHTTPService: makeHTTPConnection(android.media[email protected]): cookieHandler: [email protected] Cookies: null
D/EGL_emulation: eglMakeCurrent: 0xe331a180: ver 3 0 (tinfo 0xe330f830)
D/EGL_emulation: eglMakeCurrent: 0xe331a180: ver 3 0 (tinfo 0xe330f830)
W/MediaHTTPConnection: readAt 516238 / 32768 => java.net.ProtocolException
E/MediaPlayerNative: error (1, -2147483648)
E/MediaPlayer: Error (1,-2147483648)

I have no idea how to debug this. Is it possible to catch these errors, disable the alert, and just silently retry?

If I open the url in a browser, the video loads and plays perfectly.

Comments

Comment posted by Iter Ator

My video is not in the external storage

Comment posted by Mohit kumar jha

oh, so where is it? can you tell from where you want to fetch the video to play in VideoView.?

Comment posted by Mohit kumar jha

ok. So you are using the URL to set the VideoView. so It’s better to use setVideoPath method instead of setVideoUri.

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Comment posted by Mohit kumar jha

videoView.setVideoPath(“http:// 192.168.1.10:7777/mov_bbb.mp4”); videoView.start();