Android Video compression error: setDataSource failed: status = 0x80000000

[PhilippPriller]

Current behavior

Video.compress() crashes on Android 10 (Samsung Galaxy A7) with error: setDataSource failed: status = 0x80000000.
Works on all my other Android Devices, but all of them have Android Version > 10, so maybe thats the issue.

Expected behavior

Should work :)

Platform

• Android

React Native Version

0.74.3

React Native Compressor Version

1.8.25

Reproducible Steps And Demo

import { Video as VideoCompressor } from 'react-native-compressor'

function compressVideo(path: string) {
    return VideoCompressor.compress(path, {
      compressionMethod: 'auto'
    })
  }

// path example 'file:///data/user/0/xx.xx.xx/cache/mrousavy-2909129058745738728.mov'

I've been able to trace the issue all the way into the AutoVideoCompression.kt file.
There on line 19 setting the data source for some reason fails on that device.

           metaRetriever.setDataSource(srcPath)

I've tried passing the path without the "file:///" part or even passing it as an base64 uri, but on that device nothing seems to work.

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[efstathiosntonas]

@PhilippPriller hi, did you managed to solve this?

[efstathiosntonas]

I added a path normalizer and it fixed it for me:

import {
  createVideoThumbnail
} from 'react-native-compressor';

export function normalizePath(str: string, allPlatforms = false): string {
  if (isAndroid || allPlatforms) {
    if (!str.startsWith('file://')) {
      return `file://${str}`;
    }
  }
  return str;
}


const thumbnail = (await createVideoThumbnail(
  normalizePath(localVideo.uri)
)) as VideoThumbnail;

[PhilippPriller]

Hey @efstathiosntonas thanks for the reply. I was not able to solve this issue.
My path should already have been normalised and I tried passing it in different formats, but on that particular device/android version nothing worked.

Since this is an extremely rare edge case in my app I decided to simply not compress the video in the case of the error.