Android VideoView error 1,-1004 on Android 2.x

Question

I'm trying to play a remote video (.mp4) from my server in a VideoView. All works fine on my HTC One S (4.1.1) but as soon as I try it on a Android 2.x device i'm getting a message that the video can not be played, in LogCat is see Error 1, -1004. I also sees Couldn't open file on client side, trying server side.

Off course i Google the error en found out has something to do with not being able to read the file. I've made sure i have INTERNET permission set in my manifest, I also know the file is available for it works on my One S. So my only option is the codec which cannot be read by a earlier Android device. So I tried converting it with Adobe Media Encoder, I've converted it to a bunch of different settings including 3GPP but no success.

Does anybody have any experience with converting video files for Android and making it work on Android 2.x?

Cheers Daan

Answer 1

The doc says Android Started Support for Live Streaming from Android 3.0 Refer this : http://www.longtailvideo.com/blog/31646/the-pain-of-live-streaming-on-android/