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

To playback a video or audio file located in the raw folder use:

mMediaPlayer = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.a_video_or_audio_file);
mMediaPlayer.start(); 

no need to call prepare() when using MediaPlayer.create(Context,R.raw.some_resource_file)