I have a video url (either progressive download or streaming) and I want to determine its format to check if it complies with Android's supported media formats. How can I check this? Is it enough if it works on the emulator?
(as far as I understand testing it on a device is not a warranty since some Android devices might support formats that others do not)
Testing it on device is not a warrantyas you said. I agree. Documentation itself suggests us to test on as many different devices as possible, and this is something we can only learn through experience.As of now I haven't come across a method in
MediaPlayer/VideoViewwhich could extract meta information of Videos.can you have a server side script which tells you the video's details?