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androidmedia-playerstatedrawableandroid-videoview
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Prime

Reputation: 4241

Get state of MediaPlayer

In my application I get multiple paths from the user (1 to an image, 1 to an audio track, and 1 to a video) and store them in a database. When another Activity is started to view the files, there isn't a guarantee the files will still be at those paths or even exist at all, since the user chose them and may have deleted/moved them. Therefore, I need to be able to check if the files at those paths are valid. My original plan was to simply catch any Exceptions thrown when constructing + setting up each object. Here's what I'm using to view each:

Image - a Drawable
Audio - a MediaPlayer
Video - a VideoView

I would have handled each Exception by showing a dialog to the user However, no Exceptions are thrown and instead I get different error messages

The VideoView shows its own dialog saying "Sorry, this video cannot be played"

The others go to LogCat:

04-10 23:34:43.174: ERROR/PlayerDriver(30): Command PLAYER_SET_DATA_SOURCE completed with an error or info PVMFErrNotSupported
04-10 23:34:43.174: ERROR/MediaPlayer(271): error (1, -4)
04-10 23:34:43.365: ERROR/MediaPlayer(271): Error (1,-4)

Any thoughts on how to get the state of MediaPlayer and VideoView or some other way to check the paths?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4993

Answers (1)

MByD
MByD

Reputation: 137322

You can set OnErrorListener for VideoView and for MediaPlayer. If an error occurs - your listener will be called. Also, you can check both audio and video using MediaPlayer or using VideoView since it contains MediaPlayer to handle both anyway.

BTW, I think that the listener of VideoView is actually set in the MediaPlayer object within the VideoView

Upvotes: 2

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