Not able to play videos from assets folder using VideoView

Question

I am not able to play videos from assets folder using MediaController in VideoView. I looked into many stack overflow answers but none of them work. It works perfectly when I use Raw folder or SD Card folder path.

Below is my code :

    private void getVideoFromAssets() {

    try {
        // Start the MediaController
        MediaController mediacontroller = new MediaController(
                VideoViewActivity.this);
        mediacontroller.setAnchorView(videoview);
        // Get the URL from String VideoURL
        Uri video = Uri.parse("file:///android_asset/test.mp4");
        videoview.setMediaController(mediacontroller);
        videoview.setVideoURI(video);


    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.e("Error", e.getMessage());
        e.printStackTrace();

    }

    videoview.requestFocus();
    videoview.setOnPreparedListener(new OnPreparedListener() {
        // Close the progress bar and play the video
        public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {

            videoview.start();

        }
    });


}

This same code works for raw and sd card folder while changing the respective path.But it does not work with assets. Any help will be appreciated.Thanks.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 11 '13 at 10:29

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Try:

   AssetFileDescriptor afd = getAssets().openFd(fileName);
   player.setDataSource(afd.getFileDescriptor(),afd.getStartOffset(), afd.getLength());

answered Nov 11 '13 at 10:29

steevoo

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This uses MediaPlayer. But I use MediaController class. – Siddharth_Vyas Nov 11 '13 at 10:33

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 11 '13 at 10:47

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"file:///android_asset/..." works only for a WebView, you need to pass a Uri like this "content://your.authority/path.to.resource" that is you need to create custom ContentProvider and override its openAssetFile

answered Nov 11 '13 at 10:47

pskink

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Thanks @pskink. Can you please provide an example for this. – Siddharth_Vyas Nov 11 '13 at 10:51
example of how to extend some class and override one of its method? – pskink Nov 11 '13 at 11:05
Ok,I got it.Will try and let you know the output. – Siddharth_Vyas Nov 11 '13 at 11:07

Not able to play videos from assets folder using VideoView

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