Android Question Video not loading in some devices

[Facilauto Juan]

Hello there!

I have an app that shows a video with VideoView. This is the way to load the video (in activity_create):

video.Initialize("video")
video.LoadVideo("http", "http://xxx.xxxxxx.com/videos/xxxxx/" & globales.video_ver)
video.Play

The thing is that the video loads in most devices, but not in some of them. For example, my samsung galaxy mini shows it, my samsung galaxy tab 5" don't.

What could be happening?

Thanks for the answers.

 

[Erel]

Not all devices support all video formats.

 

[Facilauto Juan]

Well, the same video that doesn't show up in streaming I have downloaded in the device and it shows up correctly. So... this should be anything else, right?

 

[Erel]

Video streaming is more fragile. You can see the supported formats here: http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html

 

[Facilauto Juan]

UPs... My "working" device is 2.3.6 and my "not working" device is 2.3.5. According to that table, should it be working in both?

Sorry for all this questions, I can't manage to understand that table.

 

[Erel]

Not all devices support all formats. VideoView is a native view. If it doesn't support it then the only thing you can do is use a different library that is not based on the native media player service.

 

[Facilauto Juan]

Mm... I see... Do you know any of this libraries to use a non native media player?

 

[Erel]

See these search results: http://www.b4x.com/android/forum/pages/results/?query=video&page=1&prefix=1

 

[Facilauto Juan]

Thanks!

 

[Facilauto Juan]

I have read in one of your posts that there is a requirement in order to stream a video: declare an objecto of type MediaPlayerStream. Where do I have to do this?

 

[Erel]

MediaPlayerStream is not related to VideoView. It is for audio streaming.