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    <p>I am trying to play a video in android emulator I have the video in my assets folder as well as the raw folder But after doing some research still i cant play video in my emulator i am working on android 2.1 My video format is mp4 so i don't think that should be a problem Could anyone just give me an example code so that i can understand a bit more?</p> <p>The problem is that the VideoView that I need to display the Video will take only a URI or a File path to point to the Video. </p> <p>If I save the video in the raw or assets folder I can only get an input stream or a file descriptor and it seems nothing of that can be used to initialize the VideoView.</p> <p><strong>Update</strong></p> <p>I took a closer look at the MediaPlayer example and tried to start a MediaPlayer with a FileDescriptor to the assets files as in the code below:</p> <pre><code>SurfaceView videoView = (SurfaceView) findViewById(gettingStarted) SurfaceHolder holder = videoView.getHolder(); holder.setType(SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_PUSH_BUFFERS); final MediaPlayer player = new MediaPlayer(); player.setDisplay(holder); player.setDataSource(getAssets().openFd(fileName).getFileDescriptor()); player.prepareAsync(); player.setOnPreparedListener(new OnPreparedListener() { @Override public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) { mp.start(); } }); </code></pre> <p>Now I get a the following exception: </p> <pre><code>java.io.FileNotFoundException: This file can not be opened as a file descriptor; it is probably compressed </code></pre> <p>It seems there is no other way then copying the file to the sdcard on startup and that seems like a waste of time and memory.</p>
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