Video Media streaming with the built in video player doesn't always works (mostly)

[gradinaruvasile]

Actual behaviour

• Tap a video, the video player launches but most times fails to show the video, the screen stays black. Sometimes the length of the video is shown, but mostly shows 0:00. Sometimes it shows an error that the built in player is unable to play the video.

Note that

• if i use the "Stream with..." option and have VLC installed, the streaming works via VLC.
• smaller video files seem to have bigger chances to be played.
• even if a video starts succesfully, most times it just freezes after a few seconds (after initial caching?)
• this happens even if the device is on wifi on the same LAN as the NC server

Expected behaviour

• The video should be played every time. Or, if there are issues, an appropriate message to be shown.

Steps to reproduce

1. Tap a video

Environment data

Android version:
8.1.0
Device model:
Lenovo K6 Power
Stock or customized system:
Lineage OS
Nextcloud app version:
3.3.0
Nextcloud server version:
14.0.0

[nextcloud-android-bot]

GitMate.io thinks possibly related issues are #3061 (Media Streaming Doesn't Work), #183 (Streaming), #2941 (Sharing a link form the video player does not work), #643 (Autoupload does not work), and #1707 (Push doesn't work).

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[gradinaruvasile]

This issue is still present on Android 8.1, 9 with server versions 16.0 (latest ATM).

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[exussum12]

This still happens

[tobiasKaminsky]

I'll have a look.
@exussum12 do you see any difference if you use different video formats?

[exussum12]

Ive only tried mp4. I can try another format if you like ? It does seem to try and download the entire video before trying to play, smaller videos (1-2 seconds) work but anything over 1 min has big issues