Load movie from external SD card

android
#1

Hello there

I have ofAndroid-Eclipse running and am able to transfer androidVideoExample to my tablet.

Now, instead of fingers.mp4 I wish to play a much longer movie (1GB). I’ve added my “long.mp4” to bin/data and canged the code accordingly. But the transfer of the .apk aborts either because of a timeout or because there is not enough memory. Even though there is plenty of memory available…

So I thought, why not upload the “long.mp4” to the external sd card and load it in my androidVideoExample.apk ?
To read/write from the sd card, I changed the AndroidManifest.xml with the following line:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"></uses-permission>

in testApp.cpp i am loading the movie like this:

player.loadMovie("long.mp4");

Though it doesn’t work…
What am I missing?
Thanks for your help

#2

where did you put the video?

if you are using 0.8 it should be in sdcard/Android/data/cc.openFrameworks.androidVideoExample/

if you are using latest from master usually in sdcard/Android/data/cc.openFrameworks.androidVideoExample/files/

#3

i’m on 0.8 and had the video on the top level…
now tried

lowecase “android/…” and uppercase “Android/…”
sdcard/android/data/cc.openFrameworks.androidVideoExample/

without success… the error must be somewhere else then…

How to store data to SD card?
#4

ok, worked
my long movie is fishy…

#5

not all formats supported by the desktop versions of OF will be supported by android so you’ll probably need to convert your video to some specific format