Not able to view video in Android Web View

Question

My web pages have emebedded video files using html5 video tags.

I have an embedded web server (NanoHTTPD) running which serves my file from file system. Everything else works but when i click on play of the HTML5 video. It gives the following error and the video is not played

  09-29 20:38:36.620: D/HTML5VideoInline(11532): HTML5VideoInline created
09-29 20:38:36.625: V/MediaPlayer(11532): setVideoSurfaceTexture
09-29 20:38:36.625: V/MediaPlayer-JNI(11532): reset
09-29 20:38:36.625: V/MediaPlayer(11532): reset
09-29 20:38:36.625: I/MediaPlayer(11532): path is null
09-29 20:38:36.640: D/MediaPlayer(11532): setDataSource IOException happend : 
09-29 20:38:36.640: D/MediaPlayer(11532): java.io.FileNotFoundException: No content provider: http://10.207.114.115:8765/SLC/Book3_html/Book3/book/BO/demo.mp4
09-29 20:38:36.640: D/MediaPlayer(11532):   at android.content.ContentResolver.openTypedAssetFileDescriptor(ContentResolver.java:713)
09-29 20:38:36.640: D/MediaPlayer(11532):   at android.content.ContentResolver.openAssetFileDescriptor(ContentResolver.java:617)
09-29 20:38:36.640: D/MediaPlayer(11532):   at android.media.MediaPlayer.setDataSource(MediaPlayer.java:954)
09-29 20:38:36.640: D/MediaPlayer(11532):   at android.webkit.HTML5VideoView.prepareDataCommon(HTML5VideoView.java:326)
09-29 20:38:36.640: D/MediaPlayer(11532):   at android.webkit.HTML5VideoView.prepareDataAndDisplayMode(HTML5VideoView.java:363)
09-29 20:38:36.640: D/MediaPlayer(11532):   at android.webkit.HTML5VideoInline.prepareDataAndDisplayMode(HTML5VideoInline.java:72)
09-29 20:38:36.640: D/MediaPlayer(11532):   at android.webkit.HTML5VideoViewProxy$VideoPlayer.play(HTML5VideoViewProxy.java:289)
09-29 20:38:36.640: D/MediaPlayer(11532):   at android.webkit.HTML5VideoViewProxy.handleMessage(HTML5VideoViewProxy.java:465)
09-29 20:38:36.640: D/MediaPlayer(11532):   at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
09-29 20:38:36.640: D/MediaPlayer(11532):   at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
09-29 20:38:36.640: D/MediaPlayer(11532):   at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5306)
09-29 20:38:36.640: D/MediaPlayer(11532):   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
09-29 20:38:36.640: D/MediaPlayer(11532):   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
09-29 20:38:36.640: D/MediaPlayer(11532):   at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1102)
09-29 20:38:36.640: D/MediaPlayer(11532):   at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:869)
09-29 20:38:36.640: D/MediaPlayer(11532):   at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
09-29 20:38:36.640: D/MediaPlayer(11532): Couldn't open file on client side, trying server side

The media player goes to Content resolver which tries to load only files of content scheme. My uris are of http scheme.

My web view is plain simple one.

WebSettings webViewSettings = webView.getSettings();
    webViewSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    //webViewSettings.setJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically(false);
    //webViewSettings.setSupportMultipleWindows(true);
    webViewSettings.setPluginState(PluginState.ON);
    //webViewSettings.setMediaPlaybackRequiresUserGesture(false);
    webViewSettings.setAllowFileAccess(true);
    webView.setSoundEffectsEnabled(true);
    //webViewSettings.setSupportZoom(true);
    //WebView.setWebContentsDebuggingEnabled(true);

    webView.setWebViewClient(new CustomWebViewClient());
    webView.setWebChromeClient(mWebChromeClient);

cheers, Saurav

https://stackoverflow.com/a/16179544/6490462 – Aug 10 '17 at 12:06 — , Aug 10 '17 at 12:06

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 11 '17 at 05:24

You need to use loadDataWithBaseURL.

See this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24592012/850347

DON'T do this:

mContentWebView.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, webViewContentString,
        "text/html", "UTF-8", null);

DO THIS INSTEAD:

//veryVeryVery important for playing the videos!
mContentWebView.loadDataWithBaseURL(theBaseUrl, webViewConentString,
        "text/html", "UTF-8", null);

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 17 '17 at 06:14

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It seems you have an issue setting setDataSource(), make sure you are calling

setDataSource(String path)

edited Aug 17 '17 at 06:14

Ignacio Alorre

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answered Aug 17 '17 at 05:12

Girish H

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Not able to view video in Android Web View

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