Question

I’ve just spent about 2 hours trying to get this to work. I’ve never had much luck with getting videos to play with MediaPlayer. What am I doing wrong here? It plays just audio the first time through, no video. And then on the second time I get IllegalStateException‘s when I try to re-setDataSource. I’ve tried not calling stop() and release() in onCompletion I’ve tried calling reset() before playing. I just get different StateExceptions (0, 64, 128) I’ve run out of ideas.

private void playVideo() {
    mMediaPlaying = true;
    sv.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE); //surfaceview
    try {
        if(mp.isPlaying()) {
            mp.stop();
            mp.reset();
        }
        mp.setDisplay(sh); //surfaceholder
        mp.setOnCompletionListener(this);
        mp.setOnPreparedListener(this);

        mp.setDataSource(getBaseContext(), Uri.parse("android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.test));
        mp.prepare();
        //mp.start();
    } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IllegalStateException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (SecurityException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}


@Override
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
    Log.d("", "mp prepared");
    mp.start();

}

@Override
public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer arg0) {
    sv.setVisibility(View.GONE);
    mp.stop();
    mp.release();
    mMediaPlaying = false;
    Log.d("", "Done playing media");

}

Answer 1

Ok, I basically copy/pasted this here and it seems to be working… Except the first time it plays there is still no video… But I got rid of the errors 🙂