My videoview says "cant play video" but webview can play that?

Question

I use videoview to play some .gif but cant. when I use to play gif or mp4 I receive cant play video but when I try to use webview everything is ok.

VideoView i = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.videoView1);
i.setVideoPath("file:///android_asset/ad.gif");
i.start();

`gif` is **not** a video, therefore `VideoView` can't play it — Vladyslav Matviienko, Nov 02 '18 at 09:11
As for mp4 - check the Android supported content encoding formats: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/media-formats#video-codecs — Vladyslav Matviienko, Nov 02 '18 at 09:15

soupjake · Answer 1 · 2018-11-02T09:10:32.273

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The current easiest way to get gifs to work outside of WebView is to use the Glide library with ImageView.

ImageView imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.my_image_view);
GlideApp.with(context).load("gif_source").into(imageView);

Edit: Didn't realise you also asked about MP4 (early morning). Here's a post which gives some good info on it as it can be quite complicated (things like making sure the MP4 is encoded in a format Android supports).

edited Nov 02 '18 at 09:10

answered Nov 02 '18 at 09:03

soupjake

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This will solve his problem with gifs, but not with the problem of not being able to play mp4 files. – Ezzy Nov 02 '18 at 09:07
Whoops didn't see the mp4 bit (early morning) I'll add a link to a post on how to do that now. – soupjake Nov 02 '18 at 09:09
He can probably put a check of .gifs and .mp4 files and play it accordingly. – Ümañg ßürmån Nov 02 '18 at 09:13

My videoview says "cant play video" but webview can play that?

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