Android video player can't open file on some devices

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I'm seeing an issue with playing video file from Acer a500 running on android 4.0.3.

My application is saving mp4 file to internal storage under /data/data/com.myapp.app/videos/ then at some point it has to play the file and once I do:

   ContextWrapper cw = new ContextWrapper(getApplicationContext());
        File directory = cw.getDir("videos", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
        File savedFile = new File(directory, videoFileName);

        if (savedFile.exists()) {

            Uri uri = Uri.parse(String.valueOf(savedFile.toURI()));
            myVideoView.setVideoURI(uri); 

It results with dialog on the screen that says "Sorry, this video cannot be played".

The log files are showing the following:

06-10 17:18:37.666      85-1331/? D/AwesomePlayer﹕ Failed to open file, all profile flags have to set through setprop method.
06-10 17:18:37.666      85-1331/? I/AwesomePlayer﹕ setDataSource_l('/data/data/com.myapp.app/videos/short.mp4')
06-10 17:18:37.676    1394-1457/? E/MediaPlayer﹕ error (1, -2147483648)
06-10 17:18:37.726    1394-1394/? E/MediaPlayer﹕ Error (1,-2147483648)

When I save my videoFile it is setting Context.MODE_PRIVATE not sure if that matters.

I don't see any issues on most of devices playing video, however this one it is causing an error.

Any ideas on what could be missing? Also if I choose to play video from web-streaming, it works fine.

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