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

If you are dealing with remote URL, use below code to get encoded url compatible with MediaPlayer.

public String getEncodedURL(String urlStr) throws Exception 
{
            URL url = new URL(urlStr);
            URI uri = new URI(url.getProtocol(), url.getUserInfo(), url.getHost(), url.getPort(), url.getPath(), url.getQuery(), url.getRef());
            urlStr = uri.toASCIIString();
            return urlStr;
}