Video file does not play on Android release builds (when using require)

Hello Team,

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to play an .mp4 video on the Video component from expo-av module but only succeeded on iOS.

It just does not load/play on Android.

I’m using the following modules on the bare workflow: “expo”: “36.0.0”, “expo-av”: “8.0.0”, “react”: “16.9.0”, “react-native”: “0.61.4”

And here is a snippet of my code:

import Videos from '../../assets/videos'

const Walkthrough = ({ navigation }) => (
	<Video
		isLooping
		isMuted
		shouldPlay
		key={3}
		resizeMode={Video.RESIZE_MODE_COVER}
		source={{ uri: Videos.Nv, overrideFileExtensionAndroid: 'mp4' }}
		style={[
			{
				bottom: 0,
				left: 0,
				position: 'absolute',
				right: 0,
				top: 0,
			},
		]}
	/>
)

The video does play on Emulator with debug mode but not in release mode.

Any idea on how I can resolve this issue ?

[miversen]

I found the solution that works on device and emulator after studying the Video and Audio classes a bit closer. I should note that I’m also using expo-asset 8.1.5.

This does NOT work for me, it’s not loading the video on android devices:

<Video source={require('video.mp4')} />

This DOES works for me:

<Video ref={this.handleVideoRef} />

handleVideoRef = async (component) => {
    if (component && !this.playbackObject) {
      this.playbackObject = component;
      await this.playbackObject.loadAsync(Asset.fromModule(require('video.mp4')));
      await this.playbackObject.playAsync();
    }
  }

And for Audio, it’s the same, so this does NOT work for me on android device:

const soundObject = new Audio.Sound();
await soundObject.loadAsync(require('sound.mp3'));
await soundObject.playAsync();

And this DOES works for me:

const soundObject = new Audio.Sound();
await soundObject.loadAsync(Asset.fromModule(require('sound.mp3')));
await soundObject.playAsync();

[mikeRChambers610]

I got same, and solved by ref.

@watanabeyu Can you please provide detail or a code example rather than letting us know you solved it? thanks…