How to play a video file in android?

zeeshan picture zeeshan · May 18, 2011 · Viewed 75.5k times · Source

I am placed video MP4 to my domain space. I have its public URL, Now i want to play it in my android app; but don't know how can I do this. I used following code which is not working. Track controller is moving but I can't see any video on screen.

public class MPlayer extends Activity{
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.playvideo);
    VideoView videoView = new VideoView(MPlayer.this);
    videoView.setMediaController(new MediaController(this));
    videoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse("http://www.semanticdevlab.com/abc.mp4"));
    videoView.requestFocus();
    videoView.start();
    LinearLayout l = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.mplayer);
    l.addView(videoView);
}
}

Answer

AndroidLover picture AndroidLover · Sep 26, 2012

The VideoView class can load images from various sources (such as resources or content providers), takes care of computing its measurement from the video so that it can be used in any layout manager, and provides various display options such as scaling and tinting.

Code:

videoView = (VideoView)findViewById(R.id.ViewVideo);
videoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(“android.resource://” + getPackageName() +”/”+R.raw.video));
videoView.setMediaController(new MediaController(this));
videoView.requestFocus();
videoView.start();

if you want see source code : Play video file using VideoView in Android