Re: [android-developers] VideoView Uri redirect problem

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Sam <sammyng@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a VideoView and I set a VideoURI that is basically
> http://foo.com/videoName?authentication=xyz
> When the url is hit, some authentication is processed, then the url
> gets redirected to rtsp://foo2.com/videoName.3gp for example.
>
> The VideoView seems to not be able to follow the redirect to play the
> video. If I use the rtsp directly I can play the video though.
>
> Anyone ran into something similiar or have a solution?

You could try using HttpClient to do a HEAD request or something to
get the redirected URL, then feed that to VideoView.

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