NET MAUI - MediaElement - Not playing Audio Files stored on Google Drive

Question

Hi

I am using MediaElement to play Audio Files (.mp4) that are stored on my Google Drive,.

But this is failing with error:

[0:] MediaManager: Error: Error codename: ERROR_CODE_PARSING_CONTAINER_UNSUPPORTED, Error message: Source error

The following is a portion of MediaElement XAML markup :

 <toolkit:MediaElement x:Name="mediaElement" Grid.Row="0" Source="{Binding MediaFile}" ShouldAutoPlay="True" />

The following is my C# code in my ViewModel to get the file details from Google Drive:

            request = Service.Files.List();
            request.Q = $"mimeType!='application/vnd.google-apps.folder' and name='{fileName}' and '{folder.Id}' in parents";
            request.Fields = "files(id,name)";
            result = await request.ExecuteAsync();
            if (result.Files != null && result.Files.Any())
            {
                var FName1 = result.Files.First().Name;
                MediaFile = "https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/myfolderid/" + result.Files[0].Id;
  	          MyPage.MediaControlA.Play();
            }

When I play the audio file directly in Google Drive, it plays without an issue.

Can anyone please advise as to what may be causing the error.

Thanks

Answer 1

After spending time trying to resolve the issue, it appeared that you cannot stream audio/video files from Google drive using MediaElement.

Instead I solved the issue by storing the files on AWS S3 cloud solution. This allows MediaElement to stream the files. This works perfectly.