Android MediaPlayer error: MediaPlayer error(1, -2147483648) on Stream from internet

Question

I\'m trying to stream audio from a URL. The code works fine with other URLs, but in one of those it fails in the OnPrepared method, returning this error code: (

Answer 1

As I can see, this stream is not supported by mediaPlayer. Android supports AAC LC/LTP but your stream is aacp. I think this may be the root cause of your problem.

Answer 2

If you are testing on devices earlier than Android 3.1 you might not be able to play AACP (as seen on the info page for your stream (AAC+) streams.

Info page for your stream:

In order to find out what streams you can play on your targeted device check official docs: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/AudioManager.html

If you are looking how to handle aacp checkout following:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/8833346/200272

Answer 3

I was also getting the same error on Froyo & Gingerbread. In higher Androids the same video played well. Finally after a lot of research, tried changing the Https Url to Http Url & Bingo. It resolved my issue. I was using amazon S3 server so that simply replacing the "https" in url with "http" was sufficient.

  videoUrl= videoUrl.replaceFirst("https", "http"); 

PS: For supporting older versions if you are using H.264 make sure videos are Baseline encoded.