Media Plugin won't play the example video on Lollipop 5.1.1 on a nexus

AniketK

I took the media plugin form the gideros site, exported the example project, followed the instructions in the install.html and when I installed the app and tried to 'Play Video' it says 'Can't play this video'.

I'm using a Nexus 4 that's on 5.1.1. Using Gideros 2015.10.

AniketK

So a bump and I also tried it on the latest version of Gideros (2015.12) and the example didn't work there either. Still saying "Can't play this video"

ar2rsawseen

Is there any specific java error in Logcat?
Cause I don't have Android 5 capable device, so can't test for that specific OS

AniketK

This is the md5 sum of the test.mp4 27e10f20acad394fb1b32ff37f0b422d

This is the error that occurs.

02-29 09:42:23.080: D/MediaPlayer(21164): Couldn't open file on client side, trying server side 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): Unable to open content: test.mp4 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): java.io.IOException: setDataSource failed. 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at android.media.MediaPlayer.setDataSource(MediaPlayer.java:1086) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at android.media.MediaPlayer.setDataSource(MediaPlayer.java:1060) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at android.media.MediaPlayer.setDataSource(MediaPlayer.java:1014) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at android.widget.VideoView.openVideo(VideoView.java:352) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at android.widget.VideoView.access$2100(VideoView.java:72) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at android.widget.VideoView$7.surfaceCreated(VideoView.java:628) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at android.view.SurfaceView.updateWindow(SurfaceView.java:580) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at android.view.SurfaceView$3.onPreDraw(SurfaceView.java:176) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at android.view.ViewTreeObserver.dispatchOnPreDraw(ViewTreeObserver.java:944) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1970) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1061) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:5885) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:767) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:580) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:550) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:753) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5254) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:903) 02-29 09:42:23.082: W/VideoView(21164): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:698) 02-29 09:42:23.082: D/VideoView(21164): Error: 1,0

That's what I see after I get the "Can't play this video." dialog.
After I close that dialog I get this:

02-29 09:44:13.346: E/MediaPlayer(21164): stop called in state 1 02-29 09:44:13.346: E/MediaPlayer(21164): error (-38, 0) 02-29 09:44:13.373: W/MediaPlayer(21164): mediaplayer went away with unhandled events 02-29 09:44:13.377: W/InputMethodManagerService(574): Window already focused, ignoring focus gain of: com.android.internal.view.IInputMethodClient$Stub$Proxy@32c19a9d attribute=android.view.inputmethod.EditorInfo@bf8db12, token = android.os.BinderProxy@2c9aa18b 02-29 09:44:13.379: I/Keyboard.Facilitator(875): onFinishInput()

ar2rsawseen

too bad, unfortunately it does not tell me much.
From logs it seems that video is in some format that MediaPlayer can't play.
Unfortunately it does not tell me much more.

Have you tried with other videos, that you can play on your phone?

AniketK

@ar2rsawseen the video I used was the video in the Media.zip which was given as an example. Which is strange because I'd compiled the example app before and it used to work.

The example video itself can be played on the phone, as can several others which I have tried this with. A simple default media player can play them but the Media example cannot.

antix

@AniketK - If you make a new project using the example.zip does it work if you don't modify it at all?

simwhi

Hi,

I can't get the media plugin to work on Android. I tested using Android 5.0.1 and 6.0.1, using the example project provided in Gideros installation folder

05-28 14:26:35.700 793-859/com.wobblemonkey.mediademo E/MediaPlayer: error (1, -2147483648) 05-28 14:26:35.710 793-793/com.wobblemonkey.mediademo E/MediaPlayer: Error (1,-2147483648) 05-28 14:26:35.720 793-793/com.wobblemonkey.mediademo I/HwCust: Constructor found for class android.widget.HwCustTextViewImpl 05-28 14:27:18.570 793-793/com.wobblemonkey.mediademo E/MediaPlayer: stop called in state 0 05-28 14:27:18.570 793-793/com.wobblemonkey.mediademo E/MediaPlayer: error (-38, 0) 05-28 14:27:18.590 793-793/com.wobblemonkey.mediademo W/MediaPlayer: mediaplayer went away with unhandled events

The video does play via built-in Android video player though.

Any ideas?


Quick update:

The video plays fine in an Android player via Gideros.