Databases
StackOverflow2013
Postsdbo
POVideo won't play with Android's native MediaPlayer, however it plays with Dropbox's video player
 

Note that there are some explanatory texts on larger screens.

plurals
  1. POVideo won't play with Android's native MediaPlayer, however it plays with Dropbox's video player
    primarykey
    data
    text
    <p>I'm having trouble playing a certain .3gp file (from a Dropbox link) with Android's MediaPlayer. However the file magically plays without problems from the Dropbox Android app.</p> <p>I'm trying to play it using this:</p> <pre><code>Intent intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW); intent.setData(Uri.parse("https://www.dropbox.com/s/zpiqwmxka6llavt/SketchyFile.3gp")); startActivity(intent); </code></pre> <p>and my manifest contains</p> <pre><code>&lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" /&gt; </code></pre> <p>which gives a "Can't play this video" error.</p> <p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/zc4Xi.png" alt="error-screenshot"></p> <p>Logcat shows:</p> <pre><code>I/NuCachedSource2(89): new range: offset= 2245017 I/ChromiumHTTPDataSource(89): connect to https://dl.dropbox.com/0/view/a1crokuhpprsaeo/SketchyFile.3gp @2245017 I/NuCachedSource2(89): ERROR_END_OF_STREAM E/MediaPlayer(3629): error (1, -2147483648) E/MediaPlayer(3629): Error (1,-2147483648) D/VideoView(3629): Error: 1,-2147483648 </code></pre> <p>If I try to play it from the Dropbox Android app, Dropbox's video player has no problem playing it.</p> <p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/g85r2.png" alt="dropbox-success-screenshot"></p> <p>According to ffmpeg's ffprobe tool I could verify that the media type is not something exotic to Android.</p> <p>Is Dropbox performing some weird transcoding voodoo and is there a way I can make this work in a similar way?</p> <p>EDIT: Here's some more <a href="https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/02/video-processing-at-dropbox/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">insight into DropBox's encoding voodoo</a>.</p>
    singulars
    1. PO
      singulars
      1. PTAnswer
    1. This table or related slice is empty.
    1. PTQuestion
    1. USNachi
    1. USNachi
    plurals
    1. This table or related slice is empty.
    1. This table or related slice is empty.
    1. This table or related slice is empty.
    1. PO
      singulars
      1. PTAnswer
    1. VO
      singulars
      1. POVideo won't play with Android's native MediaPlayer, however it plays with Dropbox's video player
      1. This table or related slice is empty.
      1. VTUpMod
    2. VO
      singulars
      1. POVideo won't play with Android's native MediaPlayer, however it plays with Dropbox's video player
      1. USNachi
      1. VTBountyStart
    1. COCan you play the video straight of the SD card?
      singulars
      1. POVideo won't play with Android's native MediaPlayer, however it plays with Dropbox's video player
      1. USmbwasi
    2. COAny chance it is simply an authentication problem, ie, that the video is not public and so is accessible to the dropbox app since it is signed in, but not as a raw url handed off to another Android component which has no dropbox login session?
      singulars
      1. POVideo won't play with Android's native MediaPlayer, however it plays with Dropbox's video player
      1. USChris Stratton
    3. COUnlikely, since I deliberately made the video public and can access it from a fresh browser session. There seems to be a URL redirection involved (the dropbox URL in logcat is different) but setting it to either of them makes no difference.
      singulars
      1. POVideo won't play with Android's native MediaPlayer, however it plays with Dropbox's video player
      1. USNachi
 

Querying!

 
Guidance
A row detail

Detail views are divided into sections. All the information in the data section comes from columns in the selected row. The other sections display data from other, related rows.

Related data can be related in a to-one or a to-many fashion. Captions of data related in a to-many fashion link to a list view showing a filtered view of the table.

Try moving around until you find a non-empty to-many entry and click on the label to get to one. You can move back to the root by clicking on the database name in the header.

SQuiL has stopped working due to an internal error.

If you are curious you may find further information in the browser console, which is accessible through the devtools (F12).

Reload