Question

I want my application to pick a video from the gallery. It uses following code to get the path.

Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT); 
i.setType("video/*"); 
startActivityForResult(i,2); 

and then

 @Override
 protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
 // TODO Auto-generated method stub

  if(resultCode==RESULT_OK){

      str = data.getData().getPath();
   //this.go();
      this.ko();
  }
 }

str stores the path. For a test run its value is /external/video/media/10 but it should be something like /sdcard/DCIM/a.mp4 to load the video using MediaMetaDataRetriever. How to do that ?

Answer 1

In your case, (As I understand your question)

if(resultCode==RESULT_OK){
      str = getRealPathFromURI(data.getData());
   //this.go();
      this.ko();
  }

Use, this function to get Real path from the Uri..

Function:

public String getRealPathFromURI(Uri contentUri)
    {
        try
        {
            String[] proj = {MediaStore.Video.Media.DATA};
            Cursor cursor = managedQuery(contentUri, proj, null, null, null);
            int column_index = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Video.Media.DATA);
            cursor.moveToFirst();
            return cursor.getString(column_index);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            return contentUri.getPath();
        }
    }