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androidurlandroid-mediaplayer
Sylar
Sylar

Reputation: 162

Playing Video in Android's media player from an URL

I have an app that plays a video file from an URL that is the IP of a local server. The video plays fine when I run it in a browser or VLC player. But I don't want the IP address to be displayed when I play the video. Is there any way I can accomplish this? This is the code that plays the video file:

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;



 public class welcome extends Activity{
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        Button b = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);{
            b.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    Intent browserIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://192.168.1.4/videotest/Camera1.mp4"));
                startActivity(browserIntent);
            }});


        }

    }
}

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2598

Answers (1)

Edward van Raak
Edward van Raak

Reputation: 4910

You should use a VideoView but if you really want to run it inside a "browser" (webview) you can do something like this.

WebView intent

Intent intent = new Intent(context, WebViewActivity.class);
            startActivity(intent);

WebViewActivity

public class WebViewActivity extends Activity {

    private WebView webView;

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.webview);

        webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView1);
        webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        webView.loadUrl("http://192.168.1.4/videotest/Camera1.mp4");

    }
}

Layout

<WebView  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/webView1"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
/>

Upvotes: 2

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