[TIMOB-13131] Android: Ti.Media.VideoPlayer not able to play files from internal storage

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	New Feature
Priority	Low
Status	Closed
Resolution	Invalid
Resolution Date	2017-06-15T18:55:21.000+0000
Affected Version/s	Release 3.0.2
Fix Version/s	n/a
Components	Android
Labels	n/a
Reporter	Johan Lundin
Assignee	Eric Merriman
Created	2012-09-04T10:18:44.000+0000
Updated	2017-06-15T18:55:21.000+0000

Description

It is not possible to specify files on internal storage for Android like it is for iOS. This can easily be fixed as below. Then just initialise the movie player with URL just like on iOS as:

url = Ti.Filesystem.getFile(Titanium.Filesystem.applicationDataDirectory, "movie.mp4").nativePath;

https://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile/blob/3_0_X/android/modules/media/src/java/android/widget/TiVideoView8.java Line 422-424

			} else {
				setDataSource();
			}

should be replaced with:

			else if(mUri.toString().startsWith(("file://"))) {				
				// Loading from internal storage using file desc for media player to be able to read
				FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(mUri.toString().substring("file://".length()));
				mMediaPlayer.setDataSource(fis.getFD());				
			}
			else {
				setDataSource();
			}

Comments

Lee Morris 2017-06-15

Closing ticket due to time passed and lack of progress in the past few years. Any problems, please file a new ticket.

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