Android MediaPlayer throwing “Prepare failed.: status=0x1” on 2.1, works on 2.2

Question

I\'ve been really banging my head against the table trying to get the MediaPlayer class to try to play h.264-encoded videos on Android 2.1. My code is rather simple:

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Answer 1

If you are dealing with remote URL, use below code to get encoded url compatible with MediaPlayer.

public String getEncodedURL(String urlStr) throws Exception 
{
            URL url = new URL(urlStr);
            URI uri = new URI(url.getProtocol(), url.getUserInfo(), url.getHost(), url.getPort(), url.getPath(), url.getQuery(), url.getRef());
            urlStr = uri.toASCIIString();
            return urlStr;
}

Answer 2

I had a similar problem. I had a zip file which contained sound files which were compressed. In order to pass them on to MediaPlayer they needed to be uncompressed. When I placed them inside application's cache directory (context.getCacheDir()), MediaPlayer returned the same error which you described.

But when I placed them on external storage (Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()), everything started working.

Answer 3

This is my solution:

MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
FileInputStream fis = null;
try {
    File directory = new File("android.resource://com.example.myapp/raw/");
    fis = new FileInputStream(directory);
    mediaPlayer.setDataSource(fis.getFD());
    mediaPlayer.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
    mediaPlayer.prepare();
}   finally {
    if (fis != null) {
        try {
            fis.close();
        } catch (IOException ignore) {
        }
    }

}

Answer 4

playing mp3 files instead of wmva fixed it. Apparently that isn't an issue on API 19

Answer 5

On my opinion i will ask you to check back your location of your media files<< SONG PATH or MOVIE PATH >>. I faced with this exception, i have overcome by correct "SONG PATH"

Answer 6

In my case it was just a filename that it didn't like:
/storage/emulated/0/appname/2018-03-12T11:52:08Z.wav
Removed the hyphens and colons, and the exception went away.