Android — Can't play any videos (mp4/mov/3gp/etc.)?

Question

I\'m having great difficulty getting my Android application to play videos from the SD card. It doesn\'t matter what size, bitrate, video format, or any other setting I can

Answer 1

I have had quite a bit of trouble getting many different videos to play on my phone (HTC hero). Standard 512K mp4's play (example: http://www.archive.org/details/more_animation), check with them first to make sure it's not your code.

Here's my code, from onCreate() in a sub-activity which only plays the video file:

    protected VideoView mine;
    protected boolean done = false;

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.videoshow);  
        mine = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.video);   // Save the VideoView for touch event processing 
        try {
            String myURI = "/sdcard/" + path + "/v/" 
                          + currentItem.getFile() 
                          + "." + currentItem.getFileType();
            Uri video = Uri.parse(myURI); 
            mine.setVideoURI(video);
            mine.start();
            mine.setOnCompletionListener(new OnCompletionListener() {

                public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {  
                    result.putExtra("com.ejf.convincer01.Finished", true);
                    done = true;
                }
            });
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            Log.d(DEBUG_TAG, "Video failed: '" + ex + "'" );
        }