How to catch "Sorry, This video cannot be played" error on VideoView

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I have a VideoView and I am streaming videos from a remote server. Most of the times It would play the videos very smoothly. But sometimes, it displays an error message "Sorry, This video cannot be played". I have a hunch that this is more on the supported video formats. However, I don't know which are the supported formats. My question is "How can I catch this error (e.g. Prevent the error message from appearing)"? I am using Android 2.2 on this project. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. :)

hmm yes.But I don't know which "catch" will I use. Is there a code that works like VideoView.isPlayable or something that works like that? Thanks for the response :) — emmandroid, Jul 19 '11 at 03:48
try-catch doesn't work for this case since this is an asynchronous process. You should try setting an onErrorListener. (from the doc. of onErrorListener: "Interface definition of a callback to be invoked when there has been an error during an asynchronous operation (other errors will throw exceptions at method call time).") — Taner, Dec 13 '14 at 13:11

score 65 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '11 at 04:08

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Try using setOnErrorListener: the documentation says If no listener is specified, or if the listener returned false, VideoView will inform the user of any errors., so I'm assuming if you set one and return true it will not show the user error.

answered Jul 19 '11 at 04:08

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Thanks for this info. I will this first and notify you if it works. Thanks :) – emmandroid Jul 19 '11 at 04:14
The Dialog will still pop up in my case. Any ideas? – user1810737 Dec 25 '13 at 09:48
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@user1810737 I think you figured this out in the meantime, but I guess you must return true in OnError to tell Android that you have treated the error yourself. – Oliver Hausler Dec 11 '14 at 20:35
@user1810737 you can check my answer. i have solved it using snippet of code – Naitik Mar 22 '16 at 05:29

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 28 '11 at 16:11

The code I used for this:

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    vView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.videoView1);

    vSource = "android.resource://com.domain.android/"
            + R.raw.introductionportrait;
    vView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(vSource));

    vView.setOnErrorListener(mOnErrorListener);
    vView.requestFocus();
    vView.start();
}

private OnErrorListener mOnErrorListener = new OnErrorListener() {

    @Override
    public boolean onError(MediaPlayer mp, int what, int extra) {
        // Your code goes here
        return true;
    }
};

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 22 '16 at 05:28

you can add code like below, it will close video view screen if any error occurred. Also, it will not display default popup of saying video can't play :)

 videoview.setOnErrorListener(new MediaPlayer.OnErrorListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onError(MediaPlayer mediaPlayer, int i, int i1) {
                finish();
                return true;
            }
        });

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered May 15 '13 at 04:52

I prefer setting listeners like this within onCreate method. Hopefully helps someone out

videoView.setOnErrorListener(new OnErrorListener () {
    @Override
    public boolean onError(MediaPlayer mp, int what, int extra) {
        Log.e(TAG, "Error playing video");
        return true;
    }
});

How to catch "Sorry, This video cannot be played" error on VideoView

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