How do I access the MediaMetadataRetriever.setDataSource(…) status codes?

Question

I\'m getting the following error java.lang.RuntimeException: setDataSource failed: status = 0xFFFFFFEA and I\'d like to know what this status is. I\'m using the

Answer 1

I didn't have an empty file or any other of the here mentioned bugs in my code. The files I tried to use were fine. I don't exactly know why, but it worked for me when I simply used another overload of setDataSource.

The ones I used that threw this exception were MediaMetadataRetriever.setDataSource(String) and MediaMetadataRetriever.setDataSource(String, HashMap)

The one that simply worked was MediaMetadataRetriever.setDataSource(Context, URI).