Play Video From Raw Folder
- by SterAllures
Evening,
I've just started programming with android and made a few programs and everything so I'm still kind of a novice but im trying to understand it all.
So here's my problem, I'm trying to play a video, the thing is, I got it working when I Stream it from an URL with VideoView over the internet or when i place in on my sdcard.
What I want to do now is play a video I've got in my res/raw folder, but it only plays audio and I don't understand why, it doesn't give any error in my logcat as far as I can see, also couldn't really find a solution with google since most of the answers are about VideoView and just put the video on your SDCard.
Now someone told me I had to use setDisplay (SurfaceHolder) and I've also tried that but I still only get the audio.
I hope somebody can help me to find a solution to this problem.
VideoDemo.java
package nl.melvin.videodemo;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.media.MediaPlayer;
import android.view.SurfaceHolder;
import android.view.SurfaceView;
public class videodemo extends Activity {
public SurfaceHolder holder;
public SurfaceView surfaceView;
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
MediaPlayer mp = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.mac);
mp.setDisplay(holder);
mp.start();
}
}
XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/LinearLayout01"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<SurfaceView
android:id="@+id/surfaceview"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
</SurfaceView>>
</LinearLayout>
I've also tried Uri.parse but it says it can't play the video (.mp4 format).
