Android :: MediaPlayer.setDataSource - Fd - Cause IOException: Prepare Failed - Status - 0x1

What is the preferred way of reusing a MediaPlayer when using resources? My try looks a bit ... too complicated... so maybe I should be happy to see that it didn't work. (I run the Android 1.5 SDK and emulator.)

According to this thread my problem may be a permission problem. http://groups.google.se/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread...

I get the same error. But in my case it only occurs when I use FileDescriptor!?! The use case differs however, because I use a resource stored in the bundle. I have s0.mp3 safely stored in the project /res/raw and it successfully plays when I use SoundPool or MediaPlayer.create. And the log print tells me I referenced the correct file and stay safely in my package.

I'm sure my way of getting the fd out from a package resource is the problem, I didn't find any other way... But why didn't setDataSource throw the exception instead of a printout? And why on earth is the same resource happily played one way but not the other? Seems like a design flaw rather than a security raise. Should I look in the MediaPlayer.create code to see how they get around the problem or can you help me understand how it works?

This is a test code snippet: (from onCreate of a simple Activity)

CODE:...........

And the error:

CODE;..............