what is the media player uid in symbian^3 (N8 device)

Question

in my application,i just wanna open a url contain media,e.g. http://www.test.com/test.mp3,or rstp://www.test.com/test.3gp,so i need the symbian embeded media player's uid to open it.

Answer 1

i got the uid, but i don't know how to use,how to pass the url to it,so,the problem is that,how can i pass argument to it

Answer 2

If you know the content type of the URL, you can discover the UID of the right application and launch it as detailed here.

There are other alternatives:

• CVideoPlayerUtility and CAudioPlayerUtility. Both have OpenUrl() methods.
• Use the streaming classes directly (CMdaAudioOutStream and friends)

.. and there are other methods too. That all said, if you are targeting Symbian^3 onwards, you might be better off developing in QT - Symbian C++ can very much considered 'deprecated' for app development.

Answer 3

This is what I use for showing links:

_LIT( KTestUrlPrefix,"4 " );
HBufC* parameter = HBufC::NewLC( KTestUrlPrefix().Length() + aLink.Length() );
parameter->Des().Copy( KTestUrlPrefix );
parameter->Des().Append( aLink );
if(iLauncher)
{
    delete iLauncher;
    iLauncher = NULL;
}
iLauncher = CBrowserLauncher::NewL();
iLauncher->LaunchBrowserEmbeddedL( *parameter, NULL, NULL, iOverriddenSettings );
CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy();

_LOGENTRY("web ad->");