When I play a video file using a VideoView on Android, I can hear the sound fine, but the video does not show.
So, when I use :
myVideoView.setZOrderOnTop(true);
then the video shows fine, however, then my TextView is behind the VideoView and I need it to be in front.
Therefore, I either need a solution so that the video is played without using setZOrderOnTop, or I need a way to get the text in front of the video while using setZOrderOnTop.
videoView.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
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I know there are ways using TextureViews and some other ways, but can we do a video flip in a VideoView, I tried using the method scaleType of X axis to -1, but just getting a black screen. Is there no way to do a simple video flip for a video being played in a videoview? Am I forced to use a TextureView or other methods?
As you said, the best option is to use TextureView... Android's VideoView can only play videos straight and not mirrored.
If you want your app to play a video mirrored (for instance if the video was recorded using a front camera), you will need to use a TextureView, which can be easily mirrored by specifying android:scaleX=-1 in the XML file, or textureView.setScaleX(-1) in the code. (source)
I'm working on a video player app, and I'm using a VideoView to show the videos. The videos are obtained from a url like so
videoView.setVideoURI(videoUri);
videoView.start();
When there's no internet connection, the videoView just looks all black on the screen. I would like to change this default black screen to another image.
Any tips on how to accomplish this would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
Now when your video is playing hide the placeholder and when your network is off hide the videoview
I made a video player based on VideoView widget. The videos are loaded from internet.
Everything works fine, except one little thing.
I open a video, and while it is playing I click the "Next" button to advance to the next video. And the issue is that while the next video is loading, it shows me the thumbnail of previous video.
I would like to not display any thumbnail, or at least the thumbnail of currently loading video, but deffinetly NOT the thumbnail of previous video.
So, is there a method like "flush()", or something like this to clear the videovideo and not show the thumbn. of previous video? Or at least why does it happen?
To get rid off that thumbnail, it was necessary to re-creating the VideoView when clicking Next/Prev buttons. Maybe not one of the best solution, but at least it solved the issue.
Basically, what I want to do in my application is displaying a video.
The best tool to achieve this goal seem to be a VideoView.
So I used this code:
<VideoView android:id="#+id/videoview" android:layout_width="50dip" android:layout_height="50dip"></VideoView>
and in my Activity:
VideoView videoHolder = (VideoView)findViewById(R.id.videoview);
videoHolder.setMediaController(new MediaController(this));
videoHolder.setVideoURI(Uri.parse("android.resource://com.blabla.blabla/" + R.raw.blabla));
videoHolder.requestFocus();
videoHolder.start();
and that do the trick.
Unfortunately, I was expecting having a preview (thumbnail) of the video in my layout by default
So , I removed the videoHolder.start(); command, but I can only get a blackscreen. The video start when tapping on an invisible zone...
First question
Is that possible to display a preview of the video in the VideoView before starting it?
Second question
I wuld like to display the video on Fullscreen when double tapping the webview, How can I achieve this?
Thank a lot for any help / link / suggestion
Yes, you can get video thumbnails using ThumbnailUtils:
Bitmap thumb = ThumbnailUtils.createVideoThumbnail(path,
MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.MINI_KIND);
I haven't really seen apps toggle into fullscreen before. I'm actually not sure if it can be done (especially for a VideoView). However, you might have some luck with one of these methods:
Holding the VideoView in a FrameLayout and then changing its layout parameters.
Overlaying the VideoView via Window#addContentView.
Hiding (via Visibility.GONE) your other views and allowing the VideoView to expand its layout area.
You can use VideoView.seekTo(milliseconds) as an alternative, let say 1 second (1000 milliseconds). Provided that the video clip after 1 second does have an image, like some videos starts from blank screen then "fade-in" (lack of better word) to a scene would more often gives you a black screen with 1 second. You can call this under VideoView.onPrepared(). This one i use when the video is on a web server.
Hello
i have a surfaceview and a videview in a framlayout. if i start the video in oncreate, i see all perfectly, the video playing while the camera plays in background.
but if i start the video after oncreate, for example in onpreviewframe, i can only hear the video, but it's like behind the camera, and all i see is the camera view.
any help?
You Need to Merge both layouts... see the Example.