I'm developing a native Android app which has to be capable of playing native 4k video resolutions. In some parts of the app in a playlist on a VideoView and in some parts inside of a webview.
The views are all complete and functional, but I am not able to playback any video above 1080p resolution, it just does not load up.
I'm using the Android MediaPlayer class to stream videos from a local server, but I have not find any kind of settings to "unlock" higher resolutions.
My setup:
A 4k TV and a Mi Box (Android 6+), which is set on 4k resolution output, and a server in the local network where all the video files are streamed from.
I get following console outputs warning from the MediaPlayer on a video with higher resolution than 1080p:
W/MediaPlayer: info/warning (8001, 0)
W/MediaPlayer: info/warning (8004, 0)
E/MediaPlayer: error (1, 0)
D/Error:: Prepare failed.: status=0x1
Maybe someone of you can push me in the right direction?
EDIT1: The warning of 8004 seems to appear also on 1080p resolutions, so the warning code 8001 seems to be the more interesting ones. I was only able to find the description of a warning 801 here: "MEDIA_INFO_NOT_SEEKABLE" MediaServer description