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

initilize the fileName, mediaPlayer instance:

private MediaPlayer mp;
private final static String fileName = "ring";

for playing/starting audio file from res/raw directory:

        try 
        {   
            mp = new MediaPlayer();
            mp.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_RING); //set streaming according to ur needs
            mp.setDataSource(Context, Uri.parse("android.resource://yourAppPackageName/raw/"+fileName));
            mp.setLooping(true);
            mp.prepare();
            mp.start();

        } catch (Exception e) 
        {
            System.out.println("Unable to TunePlay: startRingtone(): "+e.toString());
        }

finally stopping the audioFile:

    try
    {
        if (!(mp == null) && mp.isPlaying())
        {
            mp.stop();
            mp.release(); //its a very good practice
        }       
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        System.out.println("Unable to  TunePlay: stopRingtone():"+e.toString());
    }