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 found Best and clear solution for this error : java.io.IOException: Prepare failed.: status=0x1

Note

if you want read from your sd card and got this error , your are not set
in your Manifast .

Note 2

if your are want play from url and got that error maybe your are set setDataSource to like this :https://www.android.com just remove S from http like this http://www.android.com