Trying to play video from raw folder (VideoView)

Question

I can play a video from the Internet by inserting the URL like below:

mPath   = Uri.parse("http://commonsware.com/misc/test2.3gp");
mVid.setVideoURI(mPath);
mVid.requestFocus();
mVid.start();

But now I have a video in my raw folder so the path is res/raw/testing.3gp. The code below doesn't work, and I've tried some other ways too to no avail.

mPath   = Uri.parse("../../res/raw/testing.3gp");

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I had the same problem. This worked for me:

Uri video = Uri.parse("android.resource://com.pac.myapp/raw/master");

So as you see you have 3 parts of the uri: 1) "android.resource://" 2) "com.pac.myapp" 3) "/raw/master"

"master" is the name of your video

Answer 2

this works for me

 String videoName = nameWithoutFileExtention;

 int id = getResources().getIdentifier(videoName, "raw", getActivity().getPackageName());

 final String path = "android.resource://" + getActivity().getPackageName() + "/" + id;

 vvBgVideo.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(path));