I am using VideoView for playing video with given URL. I want video full screen. Everything is working well. But am facing strange problem. When you turn off screen and then unlock it, video plays on part of the screen.. approximately 3/4th area of the screen.. I searched a lot but still unable to find solution.
Just FYI, my whole application works only in portrait mode and only video plays in only landscape mode. Don't know whether this is the cause or not. But this should not be.
Please help me. Thanks in advance.
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I have a website with lots of video. Currently I am struggling to develop an app version of my website. I am developing the app in android studio and using webview to show the website in the app.
Currently I have two issues related to video playing.
First one is, if I am holding mobile phone in portrait mode, and I play a video. Video plays smooth. But if I tilt the phone to landscape mode, the audio still plays but a new website loads where video is not playing.
Second issue is, I want to achieve when a user tilts the phone from portrait to landscape mode, if a video is playing then it should occupy entire screen of phone. Similar to youtube. If a video is playing in portrait mode and if you tilt the phone then the video occupies entire screen, I want such result.
Sorry for my bad english. Please guide me. Thanks in advance.
Fast googling, it gives you anything you need to know.
http://tekeye.uk/android/examples/ui/android-portrait-landscape-screens
So you must just define two layouts, one for landscape, and one for portrait orientation.
Then just handle how it should look in both of them.
I have an app which plays a lot of video files. It's been all good on every phone and tablet I've tested on. I just tested on an Acer Chromebook and the first few frames (maybe up to a 1/4 second) are being dropped on all video files, so the video appears to start just slightly beyond 0. Some of the videos have audio that starts immediately and so it's obvious to the user that the video is clipped at the start. I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this issue, maybe on a Chromebook or other device and if there is some simple way to deal with it?
There is absolutely nothing fancy about my code. I'm using VideoView, preload the video with setVideoURI(), then call videoView.start() on a button press.
Thanks!
This problem only appears if I make a call to seek(0). So rather than doing that to replay the video I have to load the video each time it's requested. That workaround resolves the problem.
I'm using the youtube API and I did the instructions from this tutorial:
http://javatechig.com/android/youtubeplayerview-example-in-android-using-youtube-api
All is well, but when I'm not on full screen, the video keeps stopping every second. It's like it plays for 1 second, stops, then I have to press the play button again, then it will stop again after 1 second. On full screen, it plays perfectly. I'm 100% sure it's not the internet connection because I tried it with many connections and it ONLY plays properly on full screen. Any idea how I can fix this?
EDIT: It's not the phone either, I tried it on a Nexus 5, Sony Xperia z1, HTC One, a number of Samsung Galaxies. I rechecked the code multiple times, it's exactly the same, even did a copy paste of the tutorial. It still stops when it's not on full screen. I only used the tutorial, since I wanted to make sure it works before embedding it to my main project.
I solved my problem by removing the padding in the youtube video player. It now plays perfectly regardless of orientation.
I have a problem that I can only describe: I have an App which plays two different Videos in a VideoView when certain buttons are pressed. I am now testing the app on android 2.3. One of the videos is around 100 MB and the other one is around 6 MB. I believe that the issue happens when I'm playing the big file, but I'm not sure.
The issue is that at some point the image shown in the VideoView freezes. From this time on every VideoView (even of other Apps) shows the same frozen video frame. It stays like this until I reboot the phone.
Does anybody has an Idea whats wrong?
When playing back videos on the Samsung Galaxy S4 the video does not recognize the orientation metadata. It always plays on landscape.
The app also records the video and plays correctly on all other devices while streaming. The S4 plays it fine only if the video is stored in the device but it won't work for streaming.
Using MediaPlayer and SurfaceView on a Fragment, not a VideoView.
Have tried to disable Air View, Air Gesture, Smart Stay, Smart Scroll and Auto Rotate without luck.
Also even stored the orientation hint along with the video to rotate manually the element in the layout, but the SurfaceView when rotated using lockCanvas doesn't work and when rotating its parent element goes black and only plays the audio.
Any suggestions I can try to get this bug fixed? Have you experiencing the same when using the S4? Any help on this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I asked this question a few months back and haven't heard anything. I would love to know as well.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17950072/galaxy-s4-media-player-ignores-rotation-metadata
Edit: This also occurs on the Galaxy Note 3.
Found a workaround for this issue. Try using a TextureView instead a SurfaceView, before playing the video, get the rotation info with MetadataRetriever and adjust the TextureView as needed. It worked on this side.
See the details here:
Streaming Video Playback Orientation Issue # Samsung Developers Forum