Is android ffmpeg library able to play video located in the assets folder

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I am using the ffmpeg library to play videos in Android. Video plays well from the SDCard but I would prefer it to play from the assets folder as it is more secure.

Could anyone point me in the right direction?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 22 '13 at 16:32

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Assets are read-only parts of your APK, and there is no way another APK can access these assets. You can use the native Android classes to play the video(s) you embed in your APK (use mp4 format).

If you insist on ffmpeg-assisted playback, you can unpack the asset to private file, or you should write your io handlers for ffmpeg that will use AAsset_read().

answered Aug 22 '13 at 16:32

Alex Cohn

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see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8877494/how-to-load-a-video-filelocated-in-assets-folder-in-ndk/15635160#15635160 or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3028717/how-to-play-videos-in-android-from-assets-folder-or-raw-folder – Alex Cohn Aug 28 '13 at 11:10

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 23 '13 at 06:29

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As I feel that you want to keep your videos inside application, so to keep things simple, keep your videos in raw folder and play it from there.

answered Aug 23 '13 at 06:29

Sushil

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how to give raw folder path in FFMPEG JNI file – Nagaraju Aug 28 '13 at 09:40

Is android ffmpeg library able to play video located in the assets folder

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