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

first thanks for your code, the open raw ressource helped me with my problem.

I'm sorry I don't have a definite answer to your problem but based on the api media example in the SDK and my media player in my project I would suggest checking that the file opens correctly.

otherwise maybe you need to set the display before preparing as such:

mMediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
            mMediaPlayer.setDataSource(fileDescriptor.getFileDescriptor(), fileDescriptor.getStartOffset(), fileDescriptor.getDeclaredLength());
            mMediaPlayer.setDisplay(holder);
            mMediaPlayer.prepare();

those are the only ideas I have

hope it helps

Jason