Local video refuses to play properly

Question

I'm having difficulties getting HTML5 video to work with the Android webview.

Everything is already set up:

• Android mini pc - MK802IIIs (Dual core)
• Android 4.1
• Hardware acceleration is enabled.
• Permissions granted for network, read/write of internal and external storage.
• WebView has a webviewclient and a chromewebviewclient.
• Javascript/plugins are enabled.
• Video's used for this example are big buck bunny in mp4 and webm formats.

What does work:

Loading the video into the webview from an URL that's hosted on my internal network. It gets played properly.

What does not work:

Loading the video from Androids storage. results in the following: The video plays according to controls but all that is show is a black canvas with a tiny line of colored pixels.

No error messages get thrown in logcat either. I wonder if anyone has experienced this before.

Any help is gladly appreciated.

Answer 1

Seems like Android doesn't like to play HTML video's straight from it's SDCard. What I did to fix it was to use busybox and run its httpd as a small webserver which allows me to stream the video locally without any problems.

Answer 2

Deejdd, it would help if you can post your code, so that I'll be able to figure out what part in you code is not working