Play a local video on Android in MAUI app

[grabnerM]

Description

I am currently migrating my Xamarin Forms app to MAUI. On the introPage we are playing a video as background. On iOS we call the video just like this

<grial:VideoPlayer x:Name="videoPlayer"
                           IsMuted="True" 
                           Style="{ StaticResource BackgroundVideoPlayerStyle }"
                           Source="introvideo.mp4" />

(We use grial as frontend framework and there for their videoPlayer)

The problem occurs when trying to build my app for an Android-Device (Simulator and real phone have the same behaviour). There it is just black with an error message, that the video could not be found.

Location of the video is "Resource/Raw/introvideo.mp4".

I also tried to call add the source via the code behind like this

public string VideoSource {
        get {
            string filePath = "";

            if (DeviceInfo.Platform == DevicePlatform.Android)
                filePath = Path.Combine(FileSystem.AppDataDirectory, "Resources/Raw", "introvideo.mp4");
            else if (DeviceInfo.Platform == DevicePlatform.iOS)
                filePath = "introvideo.mp4";
            
            return filePath;
        }
    }

(Yeah, I binded the videoSource to the grialPlayer)

Maybe some of you have some experience with this and could help me.

Thanks

Steps to Reproduce

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Link to public reproduction project repository

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Version with bug

8.0.60 SR6

Is this a regression from previous behavior?

Yes, this used to work in Xamarin.Forms

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

Android

Affected platform versions

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Did you find any workaround?

No

Relevant log output

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[jonmdev]

This may be off topic. But have you tried MediaElement? It's a built in Maui video player:

https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/

Available on NuGet.

[grabnerM]

@jonmdev on my test project, yes. But the problem is, we used grial (our UI-Framework-kit) already in xamarin so we try to do as many things as possible in the same way as we did in xamarin.
Maybe we just have to go with the MediaElement even though i think the video controls are not as beautiful as they could be..