Re: [android-developers] Re: why can't MediaPlayer access data via AssetFileDescriptor created by ContentProvider?

Latimerius wrote:
> Thanks for your reply, I appreciate it. I know and have implemented the
> basic approach to sharing assets between separate applications. It works
> just fine for PNGs, XMLs etc.
>
> However, a specific problem comes up if you want to use the
> AssetFileDescriptor returned by openAssetFile() as a data source for
> MediaPlayer. There's a speculation that it might be caused by the fact
> that openAssetFile() returns a (read side of a) pipe which is not seekable
> (contents are of unknown size), whereas MediaPlayer supposedly insists on a
> seekable descriptor. The idea of my post was that MediaPlayer won't play
> the data even if you set the correct length to the AssetFileDescriptor.
> Please refer to the link I mentioned in my previous post for a lot more
> details about the issue.
>
>

aha, I got it now, sorry for misunderstanding

pskink

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