[TIMOB-2938] Android: 2.3 only; Remote URL Sound fails to play with "java.io.IOException: Prepare failed" error

Confirmed. This seems to be a bug in any Android device that uses the Stagefright media player implementation (which is the new player for 2.3, but some 2.2 devices from HTC are also shipping with it).

An initial glance at the Stagefright C++ code, and it looks like their custom HTTP client is returning an EOF for the stream for some unknown reason.

More trace info from my Nexus S:

   02-15 11:22:50.596: INFO/StagefrightPlayer(75): setDataSource('http://www.nch.com.au/acm/8kmp38.wav')
   02-15 11:22:50.615: INFO/NuHTTPDataSource(75): connect to www.nch.com.au:80/acm/8kmp38.wav @0
   02-15 11:22:50.959: ERROR/MediaPlayer(23243): error (1, -2147483648)
   02-15 11:22:50.971: INFO/NuCachedSource2(75): ERROR_END_OF_STREAM
   02-15 11:22:50.990: WARN/TiSound(23243): (kroll$10: app://examples/sound_remote_url.js) [399,1210563] Issue while initializing : 
   02-15 11:22:50.990: WARN/TiSound(23243): java.io.IOException: Prepare failed.: status=0x1
   02-15 11:22:50.990: WARN/TiSound(23243):     at android.media.MediaPlayer.prepare(Native Method)
   02-15 11:22:50.990: WARN/TiSound(23243):     at ti.modules.titanium.media.TiSound.initialize(TiSound.java:120)
   02-15 11:22:50.990: WARN/TiSound(23243):     at ti.modules.titanium.media.TiSound.play(TiSound.java:179)
   02-15 11:22:50.990: WARN/TiSound(23243):     at ti.modules.titanium.media.SoundProxy.play(SoundProxy.java:116)
   02-15 11:22:50.990: WARN/TiSound(23243):     at ti.modules.titanium.media.SoundProxyBindingGen$10.invoke(SoundProxyBindingGen.java:407)
   02-15 11:22:50.990: WARN/TiSound(23243):     at org.appcelerator.kroll.KrollMethod.call(KrollMethod.java:51)
   02-15 11:22:50.990: WARN/TiSound(23243):     at org.mozilla.javascript.Interpreter.interpretLoop(Interpreter.java:1711)
   02-15 11:22:50.990: WARN/TiSound(23243):     at org.mozilla.javascript.Interpreter.interpret(Interpreter.java:854)
   02-15 11:22:50.990: WARN/TiSound(23243):     at org.mozilla.javascript.InterpretedFunction.call(InterpretedFunction.java:164)
   02-15 11:22:50.990: WARN/TiSound(23243):     at org.mozilla.javascript.ContextFactory.doTopCall(ContextFactory.java:426)
   02-15 11:22:50.990: WARN/TiSound(23243):     at org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.doTopCall(ScriptRuntime.java:3161)
   02-15 11:22:50.990: WARN/TiSound(23243):     at org.mozilla.javascript.InterpretedFunction.call(InterpretedFunction.java:162)
   02-15 11:22:50.990: WARN/TiSound(23243):     at org.appcelerator.titanium.kroll.KrollCallback.callSync(KrollCallback.java:139)
   02-15 11:22:50.990: WARN/TiSound(23243):     at org.appcelerator.titanium.kroll.KrollCallback$1.run(KrollCallback.java:164)
   02-15 11:22:50.990: WARN/TiSound(23243):     at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587)
   02-15 11:22:50.990: WARN/TiSound(23243):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
   02-15 11:22:50.990: WARN/TiSound(23243):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
   02-15 11:22:50.990: WARN/TiSound(23243):     at org.appcelerator.titanium.kroll.KrollHandlerThread.run(KrollHandlerThread.java:89)
   

I've filed an Android bug here:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=14756">http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=14756

Marking back as hold until we get more feedback from our Android bug

There may be multiple issues here. It sounds like your Android bug is with wav files.

However, we are seeing the same exception when streaming an mp3 on the 2.2 emulator, but that same mp3 streams fine on a G2 with 2.2.