android videoview error 1, -2147483648

Question

I am getting error while playing video from asset folder and raw folder.
MediaPlayer error (1, -2147483648) VideoView error 1, -2147483648.

I tried from asset folder as.

private String SrcPath = "file:///android_asset/aaa.mp4"; //also tried aaaa.mp3
VideoView vv = (VideoView)findViewById(R.id.videoView1);
vv.setVideoPath(SrcPath);
MediaController controller = new MediaController(this);
controller.setAnchorView(vv);
vv.setMediaController(controller);
vv.requestFocus();
vv.start();

and for raw folder i used URI as :

Uri video = Uri.parse("android.resource://com.usecontentprovider/raw/aaa.mp4");
vv.setVideoURI(video);

I got the same error message in both cases.

Normally that error means that your device is not supporting the video format you are playing. — Lucifer, Feb 21 '14 at 05:21
I am running my app on AVD and I tried on 5-6 AVD's of different configurations, still error was same. Can we play video in virtual devices? — Hemant Patel, Feb 21 '14 at 05:26
Ah...... now try it in real device. You generally not get that error in real device unless any unknown format you are using. — Lucifer, Feb 21 '14 at 05:27
I found the solution as I am able to play video on virtual deice.I replaced the line Uri video = Uri.parse("android.resource://com.usecontentprovider/raw/aaa.mp4"); with Uri video = Uri.parse("android.resource://com.usecontentprovider/raw/"+R.raw.aaa); And its working — Hemant Patel, Feb 21 '14 at 08:00

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 21 '14 at 05:29

You can use software like avinaptic2 to get the video encoding information and make sure it matches the supported media formats in android.

A common problem I find is that videos are encoded with the wrong profiling. H.264 videos need to be encoded with Baseline level 3 or under to be played without errors or artifacts in Android.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 21 '14 at 22:21

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I found the solution as I am able to play video on virtual device.

I replaced the line

Uri video = Uri.parse("android.resource://com.usecontentprovider/raw/aaa.mp4");

with

Uri video = Uri.parse("android.resource://com.usecontentprovider/raw/"+R.raw.aaa);

And its working

answered Feb 21 '14 at 22:21

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how can play from url – Prasad Oct 07 '14 at 07:40
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so how is R.raw.aaa different from aaa.mp4? – hariszaman Nov 10 '14 at 12:18
@hariszaman `R.raw.aaa` is a resource ID (an int), while the string with `aaa.mp4` is a string. – zundi Aug 22 '16 at 15:05

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 19 '18 at 21:49

Using R.raw works fine but in some cases I still get the same error. Fortunately I found the solution to my problem: I had to call videoView.start() inside onPrepare().

You can check the correct answer here: Android: 'Can't play this video'; MediaPlayer & VideoView Error 1 -38

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