How to catch “Sorry, This video cannot be played” error on VideoView

Question

I have a VideoView and I am streaming videos from a remote server. Most of the times It would play the videos very smoothly. But sometimes, it displays an error message "Sorry, This video cannot be played". I have a hunch that this is more on the supported video formats. However, I don't know which are the supported formats. My question is "How can I catch this error (eg Prevent the error message from appearing)"? I am using Android 2.2 on this project. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. :)

Answer 1

Try using setOnErrorListener : the documentation says If no listener is specified, or if the listener returned false, VideoView will inform the user of any errors. , so I'm assuming if you set one and return true it will not show the user error.

Answer 2

The code I used for this:

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    vView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.videoView1);

    vSource = "android.resource://com.domain.android/"
            + R.raw.introductionportrait;
    vView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(vSource));

    vView.setOnErrorListener(mOnErrorListener);
    vView.requestFocus();
    vView.start();
}

private OnErrorListener mOnErrorListener = new OnErrorListener() {

    @Override
    public boolean onError(MediaPlayer mp, int what, int extra) {
        // Your code goes here
        return true;
    }
};

Answer 3

I prefer setting listeners like this within onCreate method. Hopefully helps someone out

videoView.setOnErrorListener(new OnErrorListener () {
    @Override
    public boolean onError(MediaPlayer mp, int what, int extra) {
        Log.e(TAG, "Error playing video");
        return true;
    }
});

Answer 4

you can add code like below, it will close video view screen if any error occurred. Also, it will not display default popup of saying video can't play:)

 videoview.setOnErrorListener(new MediaPlayer.OnErrorListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onError(MediaPlayer mediaPlayer, int i, int i1) {
                finish();
                return true;
            }
        });