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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-50539

QtAndroidMediaPlayer does not play remote files

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    • Android
    • fc33195f87d7b2b036f1df625a8fda12557e05e4

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      If you set a url like "https://something.com/route/to/file.mp4" to a MediaPlayer or Video QML Items or their C++ Widget equivalent you get the following exception on QtAndroidMediaPlayer:

      java.io.FileNotFoundException: No content provider: https://afdc1d5f7fc181fca110-0b1385a62d762ade5ff0a8631476a6a0.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/render.mp4
      D/MediaPlayer( 8516): 	at android.content.ContentResolver.openTypedAssetFileDescriptor(ContentResolver.java:1117)
      D/MediaPlayer( 8516): 	at android.content.ContentResolver.openAssetFileDescriptor(ContentResolver.java:970)
      D/MediaPlayer( 8516): 	at android.content.ContentResolver.openAssetFileDescriptor(ContentResolver.java:897)
      D/MediaPlayer( 8516): 	at android.media.MediaPlayer.setDataSource(MediaPlayer.java:1102)
      D/MediaPlayer( 8516): 	at android.media.MediaPlayer.setDataSource(MediaPlayer.java:1065)
      D/MediaPlayer( 8516): 	at org.qtproject.qt5.android.multimedia.QtAndroidMediaPlayer.setDataSource(QtAndroidMediaPlayer.java:371)
      

      I think the problem arise because on line 371 of QtAndroidMediaPlayer has been used the following line of code:

       mMediaPlayer.setDataSource(mActivity, mUri);
      

      while according to official documentation on android developer portal (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/mediaplayer.html), you should use a different setDataSource signature:

      Playing from a remote URL via HTTP streaming looks like this:
      String url = "http://........"; // your URL here
      MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
      mediaPlayer.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
      mediaPlayer.setDataSource(url);

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