How to play videos in android from assets folder or raw folder?

Question

I am trying to play a video in android emulator I have the video in my assets folder as well as the raw folder But after doing some research still i cant play video in my emulator i am working on android 2.1 My video format is mp4 so i don't think that should be a problem Could anyone just give me an example code so that i can understand a bit more? The problem is that the VideoView that I need to display the Video will take only a URI or a File path to point to the Video. If I save the video in the raw or assets folder I can only get an input stream or a file descriptor and it seems nothing of that can be used to initialize the VideoView. Update I took a closer look at the MediaPlayer example and tried to start a MediaPlayer with a FileDescriptor to the assets files as in the code below: ``` SurfaceView videoView = (SurfaceView) findViewById(gettingStarted) SurfaceHolder holder = videoView.getHolder(); holder.setType(SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_PUSH_BUFFERS); final MediaPlayer player…

Accepted Answer

## Perfectly Working since Android 1.6 ##

```
getWindow().setFormat(PixelFormat.TRANSLUCENT);
VideoView videoHolder = new VideoView(this);
//if you want the controls to appear
videoHolder.setMediaController(new MediaController(this));
Uri video = getUriFromRawFile(context, R.raw.your_raw_file);
//if your file is named sherif.mp4 and placed in /raw
//use R.raw.sherif
videoHolder.setVideoURI(video);
setContentView(videoHolder);
videoHolder.start();
```

And then

```
public static Uri getUriFromRawFile(Context context, @ResRaw int rawResourceId) {
    return Uri.Builder()
        .scheme(ContentResolver.SCHEME_ANDROID_RESOURCE)
        .authority(context.getPackageName())
        .path(String.valueOf(rawResourceId))
        .build();
}
```

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How to play videos in android from assets folder or raw folder?

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