是否需要内容提供商才能将http视频流传输到android.widget.VideoView？

Question

I have some odd behavior while trying out Android's VideoView widget. When I set the url programatically (scrapped from the Internet):

val url = getURLOnline()
val video = Uri.parse(url)
videoView.setVideoURI(video)

I get the following error:

MediaPlayer: Couldn't open "http://cdn.samplemediafile.xyz/thevideo.mp4": java.io.FileNotFoundException: No content provider: "http://cdn.samplemediafile.xyz/thevideo.mp4"
NuPlayer: onSetVideoSurface(0xa93b3000, no video decoder)
FileSource: Failed to open file '"http://cdn.samplemediafile.xyz/thevideo.mp4"'. (No such file or directory)

Funny thing is, when I hard-code the same URL it suddenly works fine! So, it's not a codec problem. Of course I tried other Videos, too. Same result, only hard-coded works. Why is that?

val video = Uri.parse("http://cdn.samplemediafile.xyz/thevideo.mp4")
videoView.setVideoURI(video)

Answer 1

Found it! Silly coding mistake...

Failed to open file '"http://cdn.samplemediafile.xyz/thevideo.mp4"'
                     ^                                           ^

The URL comes back surrounded with quotation marks. Needed a fix in my scraping code. Video is playing fine now.