Good afternoon/morning! Hoping someone could help me out with a small problem I'm having. I'm playing a remote .mp3 file using a VideoView and a custom MediaController.
My MediaController looks like this:
public class MyMediaController extends MediaController {
public MyMediaController(Context context) {
super(context);
}
// Do nothing on the overridden hide method so the playback controls will never go away.
#Override
public void hide() {
}
// Override the dispatchKeyEvent function to capture the back KeyEvent and tell the activity to finish.
#Override
public boolean dispatchKeyEvent(KeyEvent event)
{
if (event.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK)
{
((Activity) getContext()).finish();
}
return super.dispatchKeyEvent(event);
}
}
And my code to attach it to my VideoView looks like this:
VideoView videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.VideoView);
// Use our own media controller, which inherits from the standard one. Do this to keep
// playback controls from disappearing.
mediaController = new MyMediaController(this);
mediaController.setAnchorView(videoView);
Uri video = Uri.parse(URL);
videoView.setMediaController(mediaController);
videoView.setVideoURI(video);
// Set a handler that will show the playback controls as soon as audio starts.
videoView.setOnPreparedListener(new OnPreparedListener() {
#Override
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer arg0) {
mediaController.show();
}
});
videoView.start();
The problem I'm having is that when the .mp3 file starts playing, the control bar at the bottom has the "Play" button showing (i.e. triangle) instead of the "Pause" button (two parallel bars) even though the audio is already playing. Anyone know how to fix this?
EDIT 1:
I'd also be interested in any other solutions for playing a remote .mp3. The only requirements I have are that the user can pause/play the audio and also see what the name of the audio file (title) is.
Thank you!
Try This : It solved the Issue For Me.
mMediaPlayer.setOnPreparedListener(new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() {
#Override
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
mp.start();
mMediaController.show();
}
});
Simply:
#Override
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer arg0) {
if (mediaController.isShowing==false) {mediaController.show();}
}
I am new to android and want to play videos one after another simultaneously so that it looks like continuous video.
I have found this link on stackoverflow very helpful. how-to-play-videos-one-after-another-simultaneously
When I am using this then though I am able to play videos one after another,
But switching from one segment to other results in pause the video for a second before playing next one. So It don't looks like continuous videos due to this.
Please help me to resolve my problem.
Here is my Code.
public class VideoActivity extends Activity{
VideoView videoView, videoView1;
MediaController mc;
int count = 0;
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_video);
videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.VVSimpleVideo);
setup();
videoView.setOnCompletionListener(completionListener);
}
public void setup() {
String _path = "/mnt/sdcard/Video/"+count+".mp4";
videoView.setVideoPath(_path);
videoView.start();
count++;
}
private OnCompletionListener completionListener=new OnCompletionListener() {
public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
mp.stop();
setup();
}
};
}
Now I have tried to play by taking two instances of VideoView class.
Tried to play the first video by first player and second video by second player,
Third video from first player and fourth video from second player and so on.
But still I am not able to play the video smoothly and the same problem exist.
Here is my code with double player.
public class VideoActivity extends Activity{
VideoView videoView, videoView1;
MediaController mc;
int count = 0;
String _path;
String _path1;
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_video);
videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.VVSimpleVideo);
_path = "/mnt/sdcard/Video/"+count+".mp4";
videoView.setVideoPath(_path);
videoView.start();
//setup();
videoView.setOnCompletionListener(completionListener);
videoView1 = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.VVSimpleVideo);
videoView1.setOnCompletionListener(completionListener1);
count++;
_path1 = "/mnt/sdcard/Video/"+count+".mp4";
videoView1.setVideoPath(_path1);
}
public void setup() {
videoView.start();
count++;
_path1 = "/mnt/sdcard/Video/"+count+".mp4";
videoView1.setVideoPath(_path1);
}
public void setup1() {
videoView1.start();
count++;
_path = "/mnt/sdcard/Video/"+count+".mp4";
videoView.setVideoPath(_path);
}
private OnCompletionListener completionListener=new OnCompletionListener() {
public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
mp.stop();
setup1();
}
};
private OnCompletionListener completionListener1=new OnCompletionListener() {
public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
mp.stop();
setup();
}
};
}
You're not really using two VideoViews at all, you're assigning both VideoView and VideoView1 to R.id.VVSimpleVideo, so they are the same object. That means each time you hit onCompletion, it's setting itself up all over again, instead of setting up one and playing the other.
Try creating two separate VideoView objects in your layout. Have one set to VISIBLE and one set to GONE/INVISIBLE, and swap when you want to change.
I can't guarantee it will make it "seamless", though, since that's an almost impossible task. Even most desktop media players aren't truly seamless. It just depends on what tolerance you have for seams.
I have been looking for a way to get rid of the nasty black initial screen on a VideoView before the start() method is run.
I have tried with background image on the widget but it doesn't work as expected at all.
I have also tried putting an image of the first frame in the video on top of the VideoView and hiding it after the start() method.
Adding an onPrepared listener to start the video and then hide the image. This works but there is a horrible flicker in the transition and I don't know how to get rid of it.
Adding the MediaController had no effect at all. The problem persists (I still see the black flicker) and I don't want to have the video controls visible at all.
My code looks like this:
VideoView vSurface= (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.surfaceView1);
vSurface.setVideoURI(Uri.parse("android.resource://com.mypackage/" + R.raw.video1));
vSurface.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
vSurface.setOnPreparedListener(this);
vSurface.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
vSurface.setOnErrorListener(this);
I meet the same problem, and solve it with the accepted solution above plus this:
#Override
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
mp.setOnInfoListener(new MediaPlayer.OnInfoListener() {
#Override
public boolean onInfo(MediaPlayer mp, int what, int extra) {
Log.d(TAG, "onInfo, what = " + what);
if (what == MediaPlayer.MEDIA_INFO_VIDEO_RENDERING_START) {
// video started; hide the placeholder.
placeholder.setVisibility(View.GONE);
return true;
}
return false;
}
});
I think onPrepared just means the video is ready to play, but not means video started playing. If hide placeholder in onPrepared, the screen still show a black screen.
On my Note3 and Nexus, this solution works well.
I had the same problem on Galaxy tab 2, Android 4.1.1.
Do videoView.setZOrderOnTop(true); and next videoView.start()
It works fine for me.
I got the same problem and i found a solution. Its a little bit hacky but it do the trick.
So basically you need to put your VideoView into a FrameLayout.
Over the videoview you need to add another FrameLayout with the background of your video and when your video is loaded and ready to play you hide the placeholder.
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/frameLayout1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_marginTop="50dip" >
<VideoView
android:id="#+id/geoloc_anim"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="172dip" android:layout_gravity="top|center" android:visibility="visible"/>
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/placeholder"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:background="#drawable/fondvert_anim">
</FrameLayout>
In your activity you need to implements OnPreparedListener and add this
//Called when the video is ready to play
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
View placeholder = (View) findViewById(R.id.placeholder);
placeholder.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}
So when the video is ready we hide our placeholder and that trick avoid the black flicker screen.
Hope this help someone.
I had same problem and this has worked for me ..
When you want to show video, make videoView.setZOrderOnTop(false); and when you want to hide video, just make videoView.setZOrderOnTop(true);
I 've got same problem I just used videov.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE) and then onprepare i used Color.TRANSPARENT) white is still better than black for me
None of the Above worked for me.
In my case, onPrepared gets called BEFORE the black frame went away, so I would still see the black frame.
I needed a solution where the video appeared shortly after the first frame.
So what I did was set the VideoView alpha to 0 in xml:
android:alpha="0"
and then before I start the video I animate the alpha back to 1:
videoView.animate().alpha(1);
videoView.seekTo(0);
videoView.start();
alternatively, you can just post a delayed Runnable to set the alpha to 1, instead of animating it.
By extending a TextureView, I get no black screens in the beginning or end. This is if you want to avoid using ZOrderOnTop(true).
public class MyVideoView extends TextureView implements TextureView.SurfaceTextureListener {
private MediaPlayer mMediaPlayer;
private Uri mSource;
private MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener mCompletionListener;
private boolean isLooping = false;
public MyVideoView(Context context) {
this(context, null, 0);
}
public MyVideoView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
this(context, attrs, 0);
}
public MyVideoView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
super(context, attrs, defStyle);
setSurfaceTextureListener(this);
}
public void setSource(Uri source) {
mSource = source;
}
public void setOnCompletionListener(MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener listener) {
mCompletionListener = listener;
}
public void setLooping(boolean looping) {
isLooping = looping;
}
#Override
protected void onDetachedFromWindow() {
// release resources on detach
if (mMediaPlayer != null) {
mMediaPlayer.release();
mMediaPlayer = null;
}
super.onDetachedFromWindow();
}
/*
* TextureView.SurfaceTextureListener
*/
#Override
public void onSurfaceTextureAvailable(SurfaceTexture surfaceTexture, int width, int height) {
Surface surface = new Surface(surfaceTexture);
try {
mMediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
mMediaPlayer.setOnCompletionListener(mCompletionListener);
mMediaPlayer.setOnBufferingUpdateListener(this);
mMediaPlayer.setOnErrorListener(this);
mMediaPlayer.setLooping(isLooping);
mMediaPlayer.setDataSource(getContext(), mSource);
mMediaPlayer.setSurface(surface);
mMediaPlayer.prepare();
mMediaPlayer.start();
} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (SecurityException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IllegalStateException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
mMediaPlayer.reset();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
#Override
public void onSurfaceTextureSizeChanged(SurfaceTexture surface, int width, int height) {}
#Override
public boolean onSurfaceTextureDestroyed(SurfaceTexture surface) {
surface.release();
return true;
}
#Override
public void onSurfaceTextureUpdated(SurfaceTexture surface) {}
}
This worked for me:
videoView.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE); // Your color.
videoView.start();
videoView.setOnPreparedListener(new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() {
#Override
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
videoView.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
}
});
At least two years later, but I hope that was helpful.
This is definitely hacky, but better than overlaying an image (IMO).
boolean mRestored = false;
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
mRestored = savedInstanceState != null;
}
#Override
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
if (!mRestored) vSurface.seekTo(1);
}
Assuming you are putting things into savedInstanceState in onSaveInstanceState.
Just show a frame from the video as preview.
vSurface.SeekTo(100);
Just use VideoView#setBackgroundDrawable(), I think.
initial settings.
VideoView.setBackgroundDrawable(yourdrawableid);
start video
VideoView.start();
VideoView.setBackgroundDrawable(0);
For people still looking for answer for this, calling VideoView.start() and VideoView.pause() in succession inside onPrepared worked for me. I know this may not be the ideal way of achieving this however it might be the one with minimal workaround required in the code. Hope this works for you too.
#Override
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
mVideoView.start();
mVideoView.pause();
}
This one works for me :
In XML : VideoView hide behind a Relative layout with white Background
<VideoView
android:id="#+id/myVideo"
android:layout_below="#+id/logo_top"
android:layout_width="200dp"
android:layout_height="200dp"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
/>
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/mask"
android:background="#FFFFFF"
android:layout_below="#+id/logo_top"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_width="200dp" android:layout_height="200dp"
>
</RelativeLayout>
and in Activity : onCreate
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.acceuil);
myVideo = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.myVideo);
mask = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.mask);
String path = "android.resource://"
+ getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.anim_normal;
myVideo.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(path));
myVideo.start();
}
onStart :
public void onStart() {
final long time = System.currentTimeMillis();
super.onStart();
new CountDownTimer(5000, 100) {
#Override
public void onTick(long l) {
long time2 = System.currentTimeMillis();
if((time2 - time) > 500) {
mask.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}
}
}.start();
Hope this helps.
For me setting the setZOrderOnTop did not completely remove the initial black frame while playing an mp4 video. It, however, did reduce the time for which the black frame appears. I wanted to remove the initial black frame completely, so I played around and found that seeking the video forward by 100ms did the trick for me.
As a note, I am using the video in a loop, so if you do not want to loop the video just remove
mp.isLooping = true
Following is the snippet which I used to fix the issue:
val path = "android.resource://" + packageName + "/" + R.raw.my_video
videoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(path))
videoView.setZOrderOnTop(true)
videoView.seekTo(100)
videoView.start()
videoView.setOnPreparedListener { mp ->
videoView.setZOrderOnTop(false)
mp.isLooping = true // Loops the video
}
It would still be great if I get an exact explanation of why the above worked if someone finds it helpful.
Use svVideoView.seekTo(position).
Give Position within 5 (ms).
onPause():
position=svVideoView.getCurrentPosition()
onResume():
svVideoView.seekTo(position);
It works for me on both Activity and Fragment.
VideoView mVideo = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.yourViewViewId);
mVideo.setVideoURI(mUri);
mVideo.setZOrderOnTop(false);
SurfaceHolder surfaceholder = mVideo.getHolder();
surfaceholder.setFormat(PixelFormat.TRANSPARENT);
It's a little late for this answer, but maybe other users have the same problem and find this question..
I have dealt with it, by setting a BackgroundResource initially and then, when starting the video, i have set the background to an invisible color..
VideoView myView = findViewById(R.id.my_view);
myView.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.some_resource);
// some stuff
// this is when starting the video
myView.setVideoUri(someUri);
// also set MediaController somewhere...
//...
// now set the backgroundcolor to be not visible (first val of Color.argb(..) is the alpha)
myView.setBackGroundColor(Color.argb(0, 0, 0, 0));
//...
myView.start();
This is a nice solution:
package com.example.videoviewpractice;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.MediaController;
import android.widget.VideoView;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
VideoView myVideoView;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
initVideo();
}
private void initVideo() {
myVideoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.videoView1);
String url = "http://mtc.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/3DF00EB7001110633055418310656_1e50d6d9a65.3.2.mp4?" +
"versionId=KVMUFFGqe6rYRrGKgl8hxL6eakVAErPy";
myVideoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(url));
myVideoView.setMediaController(new MediaController(this));
myVideoView.requestFocus();
}
public void gone(View v){
myVideoView.setZOrderOnTop(true);
View placeholder = (View) findViewById(R.id.placeholder);
placeholder.setVisibility(View.GONE);
myVideoView.start();
}
}
activity_main.xml:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="#+id/LinearLayout1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
tools:context="${relativePackage}.${activityClass}" >
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/frameLayout1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_marginTop="50dip" >
<VideoView
android:id="#+id/videoView1"
android:layout_width="300dp"
android:layout_height="300dp"
android:layout_gravity="top|center"
android:visibility="visible" />
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/placeholder"
android:layout_width="300dp"
android:layout_height="300dp"
android:layout_gravity="top|center"
android:background="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:onClick="gone" >
</FrameLayout>
</FrameLayout>
</LinearLayout>
To avoid annoying flickering and black screen issues I wrote FrameVideoView.
It takes benefits from 'placeholder solution' and (if your device is running API level 14 or higher) from TextureView, which is much more efficient than VideoView.
I wrote article on our blog to cover what it actually does.
It's simple to use:
Add FrameVideoView to layout:
<mateuszklimek.framevideoview.FrameVideoView
android:id="#+id/frame_video_view"
android:layout_width="#dimen/video_width"
android:layout_height="#dimen/video_height"
/>
find its instance in Activity and call corresponding methods in onResume and onPause:
public class SampleActivity extends Activity {
private FrameVideoView videoView;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.simple);
String uriString = "android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.movie;
videoView = (FrameVideoView) findViewById(R.id.frame_video_view);
videoView.setup(Uri.parse(uriString), Color.GREEN);
}
#Override
protected void onResume() {
super.onResume();
videoView.onResume();
}
#Override
protected void onPause() {
videoView.onPause();
super.onPause();
}
}
I had the same issue. I found that the main reason for that was the use of FrameLayout as the parent layout. Use RelativeLayout as the parent layout of the VideoView
Modifying #emmgfx's answer worked for me:
videoView.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE)
videoView.start()
Timer().schedule(100){
videoView?.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT)
}
Trick is to delay the video view untill video loads.
PS : It's kotlin.
I found a great solution to this problem. ( in Kotlin )
Create an imageview over top of your videoview.
Create a function with a handler, and check if ( videoview.duration > 0 )
if the duration is greater than zero, then set the imageview.visibility to INVISABLE, and immediately follow by handler.removeCallbacks(this)
Call the above function after you have called videoview.start
Code below:
fun showVideoView() {
val handler = Handler()
handler.postDelayed(object : Runnable {
override fun run() {
try {
if (videoplayer_topthree.currentPosition > 0) {
videoview_topthreeloadingimage.visibility = View.INVISIBLE
videoview_topthreeprogressbar.visibility = View.VISIBLE
videoview_topthreefullname.visibility = View.VISIBLE
videoview_topthreeviews.visibility = View.VISIBLE
videoview_topthreedate.visibility = View.VISIBLE
videoview_topthreedescription.visibility = View.VISIBLE
videoview_topthreedimview.visibility = View.VISIBLE
handler.removeCallbacks(this)
}
handler.postDelayed(this, 250)
} catch (e: Exception) {
println("SHOW VIDEOVIEW CATCH WAS CAUGHT")
}
}
}, 0)
}
and this is where I call this function..
videoplayer_topthree.setOnPreparedListener {
prepareSizing(it)
initializeProgressBar()
showVideoView()
}
Trying to play a mostly white video on a mostly white layout shows these glitches in a very obvious and annoying way, particularly during Activity transitions. The only way I managed to completely get rid of the glitches was to mash together a few different answers from this thread and elprl's answer at https://stackoverflow.com/a/9089245/3997253.
Create a solid colour View that covers the VideoView
<View
android:id="#+id/coverView"
android:background="#color/white"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
In onCreate
...
coverView = findViewById(R.id.coverView)
videoView = findViewById(R.id.videoView)
videoView.setZOrderOnTop(false)
val surfaceHolder = videoView.holder
surfaceHolder.setFormat(PixelFormat.TRANSPARENT)
In onStart
...
videoView.setOnPreparedListener { mp ->
// Fade out cover View to show VideoView once rendering has started
mp.setOnInfoListener { _, what, _ ->
if (what == MediaPlayer.MEDIA_INFO_VIDEO_RENDERING_START) {
coverView.animate().alpha(0F)
return#setOnInfoListener true
}
return#setOnInfoListener false
}
mp.isLooping = true
videoView.start()
videoView.requestFocus()
}
When done with the VideoView
// Fade in cover View to hide the VideoView
coverView.animate().alpha(1F)
Only this worked for me:
fun VideoView.startWithRawFile(rawFileResId: Int, delay: Long = 0, backgroundColorResId: Int = R.color.white) {
setBackgroundResource(backgroundColorResId)
setVideoURI(uriToRawFile(rawFileResId))
setOnPreparedListener {
postDelayed(delay) {
start()
// replace 200 with your value according to your video file content:
postDelayed(200) { setBackgroundResource(R.color.transparent) }
}
}
}
// additional:
fun uriToRawFile(rawFileResId: Int) = Uri.Builder().scheme(ContentResolver.SCHEME_ANDROID_RESOURCE).authority(app().packageName).appendPath("$rawFileResId").build()
fun postDelayed(ms: Long, runnable: () -> Unit) = if (ms > 0) Handler(Looper.getMainLooper()).postDelayed(runnable, ms)
else runnable.invoke()
see this
VideoView videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.VideoView);
MediaController mediaController = new MediaController(this);
mediaController.setAnchorView(videoView);
Uri video = Uri.parse("android.resource://your_package_name/"+R.raw.monkeysonthebed_video);
videoView.setMediaController(mediaController);
videoView.setVideoURI(video);
videoView.start();
Hi I am creating an app which will play livestream.com's rtsp live channel.
I am launching the player using intent within my app as following:
iPlayer = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
//iPlayer.setType("video/*");
iPlayer.setData(Uri.parse(videoUrl));
startActivity(iPlayer);
When the media player is launched through my Application, the video performance is very poor. It stops for buffering every few seconds, plays for few seconds and pauses for buffering again.
ON the other hand, If I open the url in android browser (eg. http://m.livestream.com/abcalbania) it has a video tag on that page and triggers video player. THIS time, the video runs very smooth.
Any Idea why this might happen? And how this can be fixed?
I do not want to launch browser URL as intent.
This is done on Atmel cortex A9 chipset with Android 2.3.4
The problem is caused by the codecs that probably are not supported by your player.
for example i have a video created with MPEG Audio codec along with the H.264 video codec.
if i launch the video through my Application the video runs smoothly, but if i launch a video in Ooyala Hook Player it has a very poor performance, it plays the video every 3 seconds, the reason is that the stream use MPEG audio codec instead of AAC Audio codec that is supported.
You will find the answer with:
what codecs are used to create de video, and what are supported by
your player?
Use this code for smooth STREAM
String videoUrl = "rtmp://mystream";
Intent i = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
i.setDataAndType(Uri.parse(videoUrl), "video/*");
startActivity(i);
Why not you play this in your own activity, create activity and render the video view like
private String path2 = "rtsp://...";
Uri video = Uri.parse(path2);
mVideoView.setVideoURI(video);
mVideoView.setMediaController(new MediaController(this));
mVideoView.requestFocus();
mVideoView.postInvalidateDelayed(100);
mVideoView.start();
Also you can buffer before start playing maybe 5 secs and than successive buffering will be fast. you can control more thing by your own.
Android's MediaPlayer handle very well RTSP - don't open an external app - it's not necessary and product-wise wrong.
About your question - the browser might send another parameters to the video player that help the video play smooth, I didn't check it but it sounds like the only possible option for what you're describing. Example for the extra param might be the video resolution / encoding / size .. you can get all of them easily using MediaMetaDataRetriever.
If you don't want to use the native VideoView or MediaPlayer you can always add external player to your
app, like libVLC or Vitamio.
I recommend of using Vitamio, is really easy to use and integrate. LibVLC is in native code, it means you'll have to build it using ndk and add its libs to your project.
You can find here how to do that.
Android video view support RTSP urls well no need to pass intent to other application.Try out with this code, pass xml with declaration of video view and find it inside this activity.
public class VideoPlayer extends Activity
{
private VideoView mVideoView;
String videoURL="";
static Utility utility;
static Context context;
//MediaController mediaController;
//int iCurrentpostion=0;
int counter=0;
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.tab_video_player);
setupViews();
}
private void setupViews()
{
context=VideoPlayer.this;
//utility=new Utility(VideoPlayer.this);
showProgressDialog("Please wait", "Loading video..");
//videoURL=getIntent().getExtras().getString("url");
mVideoView=(VideoView)findViewById(R.id.xvdvwTab);
// mediaController=new MediaController(context);
// mVideoView.setMediaController(mediaController);
mVideoView.setOnPreparedListener(new OnPreparedListener()
{
#Override
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp)
{
utility.hideProgressDialog();
mVideoView.start();
mVideoView.requestFocus();
}
});
mVideoView.setOnCompletionListener(new OnCompletionListener()
{
#Override
public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp)
{
finish();
}
});
mVideoView.setOnErrorListener(new OnErrorListener()
{
#Override
public boolean onError(MediaPlayer mp, int what, int extra)
{
utility.hideProgressDialog();
return false;
}
});
playVideoFile();
}
private void playVideoFile()
{
try
{
mVideoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse("your url"));
}
catch (Exception e)
{
utility.hideProgressDialog();
if (mVideoView != null)
{
mVideoView.stopPlayback();
}
}
}
#Override
protected void onResume()
{
/*if(mVideoView!=null)
{
//setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);
mVideoView.requestFocus();
if(iCurrentpostion!=0)
mVideoView.seekTo(iCurrentpostion);
mVideoView.start();
}
super.onResume();*/
}
#Override
protected void onDestroy()
{
try
{
if (mVideoView != null)
{
mVideoView.stopPlayback();
mVideoView=null;
}
super.onDestroy();
} catch (Exception e)
{}
}
public void showProgressDialog(String title,String Message)
{
hideProgressDialog();
progressDialog=new ProgressDialog(mActivity);
progressDialog.setTitle(title);
progressDialog.setMessage(Message);
if(Constant.isActivityisRunning)
progressDialog.show();
}
public void hideProgressDialog()
{
if (progressDialog != null)
{
if (progressDialog.isShowing())
{
progressDialog.dismiss();
progressDialog = null;
}
}
}
}
I think play video by Asynchronously for better performance. My code is:
private class myAsync extends AsyncTask<Void, Integer, Void> {
int duration = 0;
//int current = 0;
#Override
protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
videoView.setOnPreparedListener(new OnPreparedListener() {
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
progressDialog.dismiss();
videoView.seekTo(check);
videoView.start();
duration = videoView.getDuration();
}
});
do {
current = videoView.getCurrentPosition();
System.out.println("duration - " + duration + " current- "
+ current);
}
if (sync.isCancelled())
break;
} while (current != duration || current == 0);
return null;
}
}
This below activity works fine but the mediaController display only if I click on the screen. And the second problem is the media controller display only for 3 sec. what should I do to remove this problem?
public class PlayingActivity extends Activity
{
private VideoView mVideoView;
private EditText mPath;
MediaController mediaController;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.playingactivity);
mPath = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.path);
mPath.setText(GlobalVariable.getstrEmail());
mVideoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.surface_view);
Uri uri = Uri.parse("/sdcard/download/test.mp3");
mediaController = new MediaController(this);
mediaController.findFocus();
mediaController.setEnabled(true);
mediaController.show(0);
mediaController.setAnchorView(mVideoView);
mVideoView.setMediaController(mediaController);
mVideoView.setVideoURI(uri);
mVideoView.start();
}
}
mediaController.requestFocus();
will make it display as soon as the video starts ( without requiring the click)
and
mVideoView.setOnPreparedListener(new OnPreparedListener() {
#Override
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
mediaController.show(0);
}
});
Will keep it on the screen.
Hope it helps
Requesting focus or specifying 0 in show method never worked for me.
The problem is that MediaController class has default timeout of 3000ms or 3seconds. And its show() method replaces our given parameter to its default parameter. Its a stupid bug resulting from untested code at Google.
We need to implement a lousy workaround of replacing the default value by desired value.
Try the below code. It should work.
mediaControls = new MediaController(getActivity()){
#Override
public void show (int timeout){
if(timeout == 3000) timeout = 20000; //Set to desired number
super.show(timeout);
}
};
mVideoView.setMediaController(mediaControls);
Neo's suggestions are perfect. But I would like to add "mp.start()" to onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) method, without which the media file won't start playing.
There are two main problem in MediaController:
auto hide is 3s by default
Tapping on the video shows/hide the control bar
For the first part it's easly fixed changing the default timeout value of start to zero (zero means indefinite,it is used internally as the video starts) like this:
mediaController = new MediaController(this){
#Override
public void show() {
super.show(0);//Default no auto hide timeout
}
};
The second problem is a little tricky because the click handler is declared as private and final so we do not have any control on that.
My solution is to use another function to set visibility and disable the hide function like this:
mediaController = new MediaController(this){
#Override
public void show() {
super.show(0);//Default no auto hide timeout
}
#Override
public void hide() {
//DOES NOTHING
}
void setVisible(boolean visible){//USE THIS FUNCTION INSTEAD
if(visible)
super.show();
else
super.hide();
}
};
You can also add a variable to re-enable standard functionality if visibility is set to false like so:
mediaController = new MediaController(this){
private boolean forceVisible=false;
#Override
public void show() {
super.show(0);//Default no auto hide timeout
}
#Override
public void hide() {
if(!forceVisible)super.hide();
}
void setVisible(boolean visible){
forceVisible=visible;
if(visible)
super.show();
else
super.hide();
}
};