How to play a video file in android?

Question

I am placed video MP4 to my domain space. I have its public URL, Now i want to play it in my android app; but don't know how can I do this. I used following code which is not working. Track controller is moving but I can't see any video on screen.

public class MPlayer extends Activity{
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.playvideo);
    VideoView videoView = new VideoView(MPlayer.this);
    videoView.setMediaController(new MediaController(this));
    videoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse("http://www.semanticdevlab.com/abc.mp4"));
    videoView.requestFocus();
    videoView.start();
    LinearLayout l = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.mplayer);
    l.addView(videoView);
}
}

Answer 1

The VideoView class can load images from various sources (such as resources or content providers), takes care of computing its measurement from the video so that it can be used in any layout manager, and provides various display options such as scaling and tinting.

Code:

videoView = (VideoView)findViewById(R.id.ViewVideo);
videoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(“android.resource://” + getPackageName() +”/”+R.raw.video));
videoView.setMediaController(new MediaController(this));
videoView.requestFocus();
videoView.start();

if you want see source code : Play video file using VideoView in Android

Answer 2

Most of the time, I'm using following code:

MediaPlayer mp = new MediaPlayer();
    mp.setDataSource(PATH_TO_FILE);
    mp.prepare();
    mp.start();

for more information look at this page: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/index.html and http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/media/MediaPlayerDemo_Video.html