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 anyone else gets stuck on this when reading from a remote URL,

my urls were all nonsecure, (i.e. http instead of https)

since I had no access to the server urls (3rd party)

I had to add the following in the android manifest.