android - I want to play a video from my assets or raw folder

Question

I want to play a video from my assets or raw folder in my app in Android using VideoView I am getting the error as video cannot be played please anyone give me a solution.

Here is the code I used

VideoView vd = (VideoView)findViewById(R.id.Video);         
Uri uri = Uri.parse("android.resource:"  + R.raw.video);
MediaController mc = new MediaController(this);
vd.setMediaController(mc);
vd.setVideoURI(uri); 
vd.start();

Answer 1

A few things to note:

1. You must copy the video into your project's res/raw folder.
2. It must be in a supported format (3gp, wmv, mp4 ) and named with lower case, numerics, underscores and dots in its filename: my_video_file.mp4
3. When you work with this resource in code, you will reference through the generated R statics - it will have the file extension removed: R.raw.my_video_file
4. The Activity class has a helper method getPackageName() which can be used by your code when constructing the correct URI to your video.

VideoView vv = (VideoView)this.findViewById(R.id.videoView)
String uri = "android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.my_video_file;
vv.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(uri));
vv.start();

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