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java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

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I am getting below error when I pass

SiliCompressor.with(this).compressVideo("/storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera/VID_20170908_122018.mp4", "/storage/emulated/0/abc.mp4");

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
at android.media.MediaMetadataRetriever.setDataSource(MediaMetadataRetriever.java:64)
at com.iceteck.silicompressorr.videocompression.MediaController.convertVideo(MediaController.java:252)
at com.iceteck.silicompressorr.SiliCompressor.compressVideo(SiliCompressor.java:300)
at com.xxx.farwide.coreview.activity.s3filehandling.S3FileTransactionActivity$1.run(S3FileTransactionActivity.java:74)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:764)

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aminefilali1commented, Dec 26, 2017

The second parameter is the destination directory, not the destination file path. Try something like this: String sourceFilePath = Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_MOVIES) + “/MyAppVideos/myVideo1.mp4”; String destinationDir = Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_MOVIES) + “/MyAppVideos/”; String compressedFilePath = SiliCompressor.with(context).compressVideo(sourceFilePath, destinationDir);

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kirkaDevcommented, Feb 26, 2022

In my case was thrown IllegalArgumentException without any messages and causes, because MediaMetadataRetriever couldn’t create FileDescriptor.

In total, works for me when videoFilePath is: /storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera/VID_20220226_160644.mp4

and not work when videoFilePath looks like this: file:///storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera/VID_20220226_160446.mp4

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