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Asked: 2026-05-30T17:38:05+00:00

I am desperately trying to send a captured video to a server. The problem

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I am desperately trying to send a captured video to a server. The problem is that the URI that is given by the built-in camera application is not the real file path. It looks like this – /content:/media/external/video/media/19.

How can I access the real path or the data directly from this kind of URIs?

After reading the android documentation I saw that it looks like a content provider’s notation, but I still don’t have a clue how to reach the data that I need. Please help!!!

thanks in advance

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  1. Editorial Team

    How can I access the real path or the data directly from this kind of URIs?

    You don’t. It might not exist as a file. Or, it might not exist as a file that you can read except via the ContentProvider.

    Instead, use a ContentResolver to open an InputStream on that Uri, and use that InputStream to transfer the data to a server.

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