Android Player Intents

Open a media with VLC Player

To play a media with VLC player, use an intent with the following settings

action

Intent.ACTION_VIEW ("android.intent.action.VIEW")

Package name

"org.videolan.vlc"

data

The media Uri

type

one of:

• video/*
• audio/*
• */rmvb
• */avi
• */mkv
• application/3gpp*
• application/mp4
• application/mpeg*
• application/ogg
• application/sdp
• application/vnd.3gp*
• application/vnd.apple.mpegurl
• application/vnd.dvd*
• application/vnd.dolby*
• application/vnd.rn-realmedia*
• application/x-iso9660-image
• application/x-extension-mp4
• application/x-flac
• application/x-matroska
• application/x-mpegURL
• application/x-ogg
• application/x-quicktimeplayer
• application/x-shockwave-flash
• application/xspf+xml
• misc/ultravox

Extras (optional)

Value	Type	Description
"subtitles_location"	String	Path of a subtitles file
"title"	String	Title you want to display
"from_start"	boolean	Force playback from the beginning
"position"	int/long	Set position to start playback, in milliseconds
"extra_duration"	long	Media duration

Sample code

For a simple media playback:

 int vlcRequestCode = 42;
 Uri uri = Uri.parse("file:///storage/emulated/0/Movies/KUNG FURY Official Movie.mp4");
 Intent vlcIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
 vlcIntent.setPackage("org.videolan.vlc");
 vlcIntent.setDataAndTypeAndNormalize(uri, "video/*");
 vlcIntent.putExtra("title", "Kung Fury");
 vlcIntent.putExtra("from_start", false);
 vlcIntent.putExtra("position", 90000l);
 vlcIntent.putExtra("subtitles_location", "/sdcard/Movies/Fifty-Fifty.srt");
 startActivityForResult(vlcIntent, vlcRequestCode);

If you specifically want start VideoPlayerActivity, you can set

 vlcIntent.setComponent(new ComponentName("org.videolan.vlc", "org.videolan.vlc.gui.video.VideoPlayerActivity"));

Get result code from VLC

Since version 1.4.1, Android VLC application returns an intent when closing.

Here is the description of this intent:

Intent action

"org.videolan.vlc.player.result"

Result code

Result	Value (int)	Description
RESULT_OK	-1	Video finished or user ended playback
RESULT_CANCELED	0	No compatible cpu, incorrect VLC abi variant installed
RESULT_CONNECTION_FAILED	2	Connection failed to audio service
RESULT_PLAYBACK_ERROR	3	VLC is not able to play this file, it could be incorrect path/uri, not supported codec or broken file
RESULT_HARDWARE_ACCELERATION_ERROR	4	Error with hardware acceleration, user refused to switch to software decoding
RESULT_VIDEO_TRACK_LOST	5	VLC continues playback, but for audio track only. (Audio file detected or user chose to)

Data

Media Uri

You can check the source here.

Extras

Value	Type	Description
"extra_position"	long	Last position in media when player exited
"extra_duration"	long	Total duration of the media

See also

• Android Report bugs - Bug reporting guide for VLC-Android.