"Can't play this video" error

andrijac commented 2 years ago

First of all, thanks for doing this, great project. It is amazing that MS didn't implement Video player themselves.

I'm trying to implement your example into my project. I have mp4 file that I used in your example to try to play it as a resource file in Raw folder, it works.

I have added all the file in my project

Added all the files, edited csproj file, added MauiHandler to MauiProgram, added all native implementations, added Controls and Handlers folders etc.
Project builds successfully
I'm testing only on Android for now
Mp4 file is added to Raw folder as MauiAsset
I have tested getting the file from code using FileSystem.OpenAppPackageFileAsync, it works.

When I try to play the file in my project, it displays dialog with message: "Can't play this video".

From output I'm getting:

[VideoView] Unable to open content: content://com.mobileapp/splashvideo.mp4
[VideoView] java.io.IOException: setDataSource failed.: status=0x80000000
[VideoView]     at android.media.MediaPlayer.nativeSetDataSource(Native Method)
[VideoView]     at android.media.MediaPlayer.setDataSource(MediaPlayer.java:1260)
[VideoView]     at android.media.MediaPlayer.setDataSource(MediaPlayer.java:1247)
[VideoView]     at android.media.MediaPlayer.setDataSource(MediaPlayer.java:1158)
[VideoView]     at android.media.MediaPlayer.setDataSource(MediaPlayer.java:1179)
[VideoView]     at android.widget.VideoView.openVideo(VideoView.java:412)
[VideoView]     at android.widget.VideoView.access$2200(VideoView.java:83)
[VideoView]     at android.widget.VideoView$7.surfaceCreated(VideoView.java:694)
[VideoView]     at android.view.SurfaceView.updateSurface(SurfaceView.java:1350)
[VideoView]     at android.view.SurfaceView.lambda$new$1$SurfaceView(SurfaceView.java:254)
[VideoView]     at android.view.SurfaceView$$ExternalSyntheticLambda2.onPreDraw(Unknown Source:2)
[VideoView]     at android.view.ViewTreeObserver.dispatchOnPreDraw(ViewTreeObserver.java:1112)
[VideoView]     at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:4171)
[VideoView]     at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:2893)
[VideoView]     at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:10445)
[VideoView]     at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:1108)
[VideoView]     at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:866)
[VideoView]     at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:797)
[VideoView]     at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:1092)
[VideoView]     at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:938)
[VideoView]     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
[VideoView]     at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:226)
[VideoView]     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:313)
[VideoView]     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8663)
[VideoView]     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
[VideoView]     at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:567)
[VideoView]     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1135)
[VideoView] Error: 1,0

Screenshot_20220901-153624

Do you have any idea what could've gone wrong?

Thanks

EdwardMcFlurry commented 2 years ago

Im also experiencing the same issue especially when Videos are loaded using CollectionView, the error message show up lets say 3 times if the CollectionView has 3 Videos. Please provide a solution regarding this.

davidbritch commented 2 years ago

Hi @andrijac

You added it to the Resources/Raw project in your single project?

davidbritch commented 2 years ago

@andrijac It's also worth checking your .csproj file that the entries for the video(s) look like:

    <ItemGroup>
      <None Remove="Resources\Raw\AndroidVideo.mp4" />
      <None Remove="Resources\Raw\AppleVideo.mp4" />
      <None Remove="Resources\Raw\WindowsVideo.mp4" />
    </ItemGroup>

I've had cases where VS produces incorrect .csproj entries (it can do a remove and an include, which is wrong).

davidbritch commented 2 years ago

Is your bundle id definitely com.mobileapp i.e. two parts to it rather than three?

andrijac commented 2 years ago

Video is in /Resources/Raw folder, set as MauiAsset.
There were "<None Remove" elements in csproj, I removed them.
Also, bundle id was 3 parts, I changed it to 2.

I still get same message :(

andrijac commented 2 years ago

I cleaned project before running it again.

davidbritch commented 2 years ago

Where did you change the bundle id?

andrijac commented 2 years ago

I tried reading the file my main page:

        var stream = await FileSystem.OpenAppPackageFileAsync("splashvideo.mp4");

        byte[] m_Bytes = ReadToEnd(stream);

        await this.screenNotificationService.NotifyInfo(this.logger, m_Bytes.Length.ToString());`

it worked.

andrijac commented 2 years ago

Changed in AndroidManifest and in VideoProvider.cs in Android platform folder.

andrijac commented 2 years ago

What should be format of string in VideoProvider.cs? Does it has to contain Project name? E.g.: com.mobileapp.ProjectName?

davidbritch commented 2 years ago

You also need to update it in your .csproj: https://github.com/davidbritch/dotnet-maui-videoplayer/blob/a874e5673c6ebc1894441c35773b52727a81098a/src/VideoDemos/VideoDemos.csproj#L18

AlexJinx commented 1 year ago

I got the same error, how did you solve it. I update ApplicationId for my projectname and added Resources/Raw path.it looks something like this:

<ApplicationId>com.companyname.mauiclient</ApplicationId>
<ApplicationIdGuid>9a2c7080-db10-4f4a-b1e8-a5af8c8236a3</ApplicationIdGuid>

<ItemGroup>
  <None Remove="Resources\Raw\1.mp4" />
</ItemGroup>

but it still doesn't work, please tell me how to fix it.

andrijac commented 1 year ago

I got the same error, how did you solve it. I update ApplicationId for my projectname and added Resources/Raw path.it looks something like this:
<ApplicationId>com.companyname.mauiclient</ApplicationId>
<ApplicationIdGuid>9a2c7080-db10-4f4a-b1e8-a5af8c8236a3</ApplicationIdGuid>

<ItemGroup>
  <None Remove="Resources\Raw\1.mp4" />
</ItemGroup>
but it still doesn't work, please tell me how to fix it.

I didn't solve it, I gave up :) Lucky, project got canceled. We moved back to Flutter, for now.

EdwardMcFlurry commented 1 year ago

@andrijac It’s sad that to see you going because of a simple issue that could easily be attended to by @davidbritch

AlexJinx commented 1 year ago

I solved the problem， in Platforms\Android\VideoProvider.cs file, ContentProvider Attribute value is com.companyname.projectname？

look this ：[ContentProvider(new string[] { "com.companyname.mauiclient" })]

andrijac commented 1 year ago

@andrijac It’s sad that to see you going because of a simple issue that could easily be attended to by @davidbritch

It is sad that MAUI didn't had this implemented in version 1. Respect to @davidbritch for trying to solve it.

EdwardMcFlurry commented 1 year ago

@andrijac I agree that @davidbritch did a fantastic job with his implementation, its just that the MediaElement is 'slowly' progressing but I personally wanted to expose this incredible work that is already done by @davidbritch for the simplicity of addressing a specific needs that developers have.

Can I kindly share about 3 links of simple videos uploaded on my Azure Blob Storage using this project to check why there's error of 'Can't play this video' only on Android.

davidbritch / dotnet-maui-videoplayer

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