title: playback video full screen
body: <p>I am trying to play a video in my app. It has to be embedded. </p>
  
  <p>I went through the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/63692208da946ead" rel="noreferrer">"Play Video Files in Android"</a> thread.</p>
  
  <p>I am able to play my video using VideoView as mentioned in this 
  discussion. But there are a few problems. </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>I need full screen video, how do I stretch VideoView to full screen? 
  Will that stretch the video too? </p></li>
  <li><p>I don't need the default play/forward/stop buttons at all. Basically 
  I need continuous loop playing of the video. </p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I tried the MediaPlayer class as in <a href="http://davanum.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/android-videomusic-player-sample-from-local-disk-as-well-as-remote-urls/" rel="noreferrer">here</a>,
  but it never worked. What should the string format look like if I 
  have my video file in res/raw directory? I really don't want the video 
  file played from sdcard. How can it be bundled along with the app? </p>
  
  <p>If any of these two approaches work, I will be better off.</p>
  
  <p>This is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>videoHolder = new VideoView(this); 
  // videoHolder = (VideoView)findViewById(R.id.videoview); 
  LayoutParams params = new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT); 
  videoHolder.setLayoutParams(params); 
  videoHolder.setMediaController(new MediaController(this)); 
  setContentView(videoHolder); 
  // 
  // 
  //// I tested and found that it works fine for .wmv, .3gp and .mp4 
  //// videoHolder.setVideoURI(Uri.parse("file:///sdcard/video.3gp")); 
  videoHolder.setVideoURI(Uri.parse("res/raw/demo.3gp")); 
  videoHolder.requestFocus(); 
  videoHolder.start(); 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Strangely the commented url works (the one with sdcard).
  The other one does not work. I have tried many combinations from "file:// 
  res/raw/demo.3gp" to only "demo".</p>
  
  <p>What would be the correct string to access the file?</p>