Android MediaPlayer throwing “Prepare failed.: status=0x1” on 2.1, works on 2.2

Question

I\'ve been really banging my head against the table trying to get the MediaPlayer class to try to play h.264-encoded videos on Android 2.1. My code is rather simple:

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Answer 1

I know that I am late here but hopefully this helps somebody else. I worked around this issue by setting up a setOnCompletionListener callback that explicitly releases the MediaPlayer object after the media is done playing.

I can't take credit for this solution, as it was originally posted by Ronny here: How do you detect when a sound file has finished?

But since this is the first answer when I search for Android+Failed Status 0x1 here is my code that solved this problem for me:

 public void playSound(String soundPath){
    MediaPlayer m = new MediaPlayer();

    m.setOnCompletionListener(new OnCompletionListener() {

        @Override
        public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
            mp.release();
        }

    });

    try {

        AssetFileDescriptor descriptor = mContext.getAssets().openFd(soundPath);
        m.setDataSource(descriptor.getFileDescriptor(), descriptor.getStartOffset(),
                        descriptor.getLength());            

        descriptor.close();

        m.prepare();
        m.setVolume(100f, 100f);
        m.setLooping(false);
        m.start();

    } catch (Exception e) {
        //Your catch code here.
    }
 }