I have an application thats main goal is to play a specific video file.
it plays the video correctly sometimes. But other times it gives me this error:
03-21 14:52:36.181: I/AwesomePlayer(119): setDataSource_l('/data/data/my.package.name/files/MyMovie.mp4') 03-21 14:52:36.196: W/VideoView(26612): Unable to open content: /data/data/my.package.name/files/MyMovie.mp4 03-21 14:52:36.196: W/VideoView(26612): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The surface has been released 03-21 14:52:36.196: W/VideoView(26612): at android.media.MediaPlayer._setVideoSurface(Native Method) 03-21 14:52:36.196: W/VideoView(26612): at android.media.MediaPlayer.setDisplay(MediaPlayer.java:633) 03-21 14:52:36.196: W/VideoView(26612): at android.widget.VideoView.openVideo(VideoView.java:222) 03-21 14:52:36.196: W/VideoView(26612): at android.widget.VideoView.access$2000(VideoView.java:49) 03-21 14:52:36.196: W/VideoView(26612): at android.widget.VideoView$6.surfaceCreated(VideoView.java:465) 03-21 14:52:36.196: W/VideoView(26612): at android.view.SurfaceView.updateWindow(SurfaceView.java:533) 03-21 14:52:36.196: W/VideoView(26612): at android.view.SurfaceView.access$000(SurfaceView.java:81) 03-21 14:52:36.196: W/VideoView(26612): at android.view.SurfaceView$3.onPreDraw(SurfaceView.java:169) 03-21 14:52:36.196: W/VideoView(26612): at android.view.ViewTreeObserver.dispatchOnPreDraw(ViewTreeObserver.java:590) 03-21 14:52:36.196: W/VideoView(26612): at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1617) 03-21 14:52:36.196: W/VideoView(26612): at android.view.ViewRootImpl.handleMessage(ViewRootImpl.java:2442) 03-21 14:52:36.196: W/VideoView(26612): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 03-21 14:52:36.196: W/VideoView(26612): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137) 03-21 14:52:36.196: W/VideoView(26612): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4424) 03-21 14:52:36.196: W/VideoView(26612): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 03-21 14:52:36.196: W/VideoView(26612): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511) 03-21 14:52:36.196: W/VideoView(26612): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784) 03-21 14:52:36.196: W/VideoView(26612): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551) 03-21 14:52:36.196: W/VideoView(26612): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 03-21 14:52:36.196: D/VideoView(26612): Error: 1,0
I am using the prepared listener to call start like this:
mVideoView.setOnPreparedListener(new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() { @Override public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer arg0) { mVideoView.start(); } });
And I set the data source with this:
file = new File(this.getFilesDir() + File.separator + VIDEO_FILE_NAME); mVideoView.setVideoPath(file.getAbsolutePath());
I know for certain that the file does exist and is the proper format.
My application has the ability to be launched from an alarm trigger. It seems to only be a problem when the trigger fires and launches my app while the devices screen is turned off(my app will turn the screen on with a wake lock). If I manually launch the app, or the trigger happens with the screen on the video plays fine. This error is also only occuring on the Galaxy Nexus. I can run the exact same code on a Nexus S(as well as a long list of others) and it starts fine every time.
Does anyone know of anything specific to the Galaxy Nexus or ICS that could cause this behavior? And are there any suggestions for what I could try to fix?