How to catch “Sorry, This video cannot be played” error on VideoView

Question

I have a VideoView and I am streaming videos from a remote server. Most of the times It would play the videos very smoothly. But sometimes, it displays an error message "Sorry, This video cannot be played". I have a hunch that this is more on the supported video formats. However, I don't know which are the supported formats. My question is "How can I catch this error (e.g. Prevent the error message from appearing)"? I am using Android 2.2 on this project. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. :)

Answer 1

Try using setOnErrorListener: the documentation says If no listener is specified, or if the listener returned false, VideoView will inform the user of any errors., so I'm assuming if you set one and return true it will not show the user error.

Answer 2

The code I used for this:

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    vView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.videoView1);

    vSource = "android.resource://com.domain.android/"
            + R.raw.introductionportrait;
    vView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(vSource));

    vView.setOnErrorListener(mOnErrorListener);
    vView.requestFocus();
    vView.start();
}

private OnErrorListener mOnErrorListener = new OnErrorListener() {

    @Override
    public boolean onError(MediaPlayer mp, int what, int extra) {
        // Your code goes here
        return true;
    }
};

Answer 3

I prefer setting listeners like this within onCreate method. Hopefully helps someone out

videoView.setOnErrorListener(new OnErrorListener () {
    @Override
    public boolean onError(MediaPlayer mp, int what, int extra) {
        Log.e(TAG, "Error playing video");
        return true;
    }
});

Answer 4

you can add code like below, it will close video view screen if any error occurred. Also, it will not display default popup of saying video can't play :)

 videoview.setOnErrorListener(new MediaPlayer.OnErrorListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onError(MediaPlayer mediaPlayer, int i, int i1) {
                finish();
                return true;
            }
        });