How to play videos in android from assets folder or raw folder?

Question

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?

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.

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.

Update

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:

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();    } }); 

Now I get a the following exception:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: This file can not be opened as a file descriptor; it is probably compressed 

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.

Answer 1

## Perfectly Working since Android 1.6 ##

getWindow().setFormat(PixelFormat.TRANSLUCENT); VideoView videoHolder = new VideoView(this); //if you want the controls to appear videoHolder.setMediaController(new MediaController(this)); Uri video = getUriFromRawFile(context, R.raw.your_raw_file); //if your file is named sherif.mp4 and placed in /raw //use R.raw.sherif videoHolder.setVideoURI(video); setContentView(videoHolder); videoHolder.start(); 

And then

public static Uri getUriFromRawFile(Context context, @ResRaw int rawResourceId) {     return Uri.Builder()         .scheme(ContentResolver.SCHEME_ANDROID_RESOURCE)         .authority(context.getPackageName())         .path(String.valueOf(rawResourceId))         .build(); } 

## Check complete tutorial ##

Answer 2

String UrlPath="android.resource://"+getPackageName()+"/"+R.raw.ur file name; videocontainer.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(UrlPath)); videocontainer.start(); 

where videocontainer of type videoview.