How To Load Videos From Assets Folder? (to Play Them With Videoview)

I need to open a mp4 video from the assets folder and play it with VideoView. I tryed with these two options, but none of them works.... mVideoView.setVideoPath('file:///android_as

Solution 1:

I don't know how to load videos from the assets folder. But I know how to load them from the /res/raw/ folder:

StringuriPath="android.resource://yourapplicationpackage/raw/videofilenamewithoutextension";
Uriuri= Uri.parse(uriPath);
video.setVideoURI(uri);

Solution 2:

Playing the .mp4 file from \assets is not possible, you must load it from \raw folder.

Example:

if you have a file called video.mp4 inside the /raw folder:

StringfileName="android.resource://"+  getPackageName() + "/raw/video";
VideoViewvv= (VideoView) this.findViewById(R.id.surface);
vv.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(fileName));
vv.start();

Solution 3:

EDITED

Try:

this.setContentView(R.layout.videoview);        
mVideoView = (VideoView) this.findViewById(R.id.surface_view);        
SurfaceHolderholder= mVideoView.getHolder();
holder.setType(SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_PUSH_BUFFERS);
MediaPlayerplayer=newMediaPlayer();
player.setDisplay(holder);        
AssetFileDescriptor afd;
try {
    afd = getAssets().openFd("v.mp4");        
    player.setDataSource(afd.getFileDescriptor(),afd.getStartOffset(), afd.getLength());
    player.prepareAsync();
    player.setOnPreparedListener(newOnPreparedListener() {

     @OverridepublicvoidonPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
        mp.start();
     }
  });

} catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace();}