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 this may be too late. I managed to use video from resources as this:

MediaPlayer mp = ...;
Uri uri = Uri.parse("android.resource://"+getPackageName()+"/" + R.raw.my_movie);
mp.setDataSourceUri(this, uri);