Guys
I am new to android and want to write a simple application that plays a video in android using video view. I have written the code it is working but the view is not clear. It is blurred. What should I do?? Please Help.
Is there any alternative to video view to achieve that...?? I want to play the recorded video from android phones
There are two possibilities. Either the quality of the video might be low or you would have tried it in a emulator. Sometimes it is possible for emulator to have some problems with playing video which I have personally faced. So you have to try it in a real device.
And regarding alternative for videoview, there is no such alternatives available I believe. But still videoview should be simple to play a video.
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I can load a video from the web. All works fine.
However, when a network connection is slow the video is buffering. So I want to set the quality of video while, streaming it automatically or manually.
I am blank about this.
If I am not mistaken, VideoView only plays the video. Here is the documentation on it, doesn't seem to have that option at all.
I'd suggest you use the youtube API instead if you can.
I'm developing an application in which I need to play YouTube videos, I tried using webView and videoView, and I searched around a lot, I actually found some solutions, but they seem not to fit into my application needs:
So I want to know in the first place, the best way (approach) to the issue of playing a YouTube video inside an app. Should I use WebView and try to make the video fit the view and extra, or should I try VideoView (which is a little bit more complicated I guess, cause to be able to play videos I have to get the actual .3gp from Youtube).
Well thanks for helping me find the best approach.
MeanWhile I have got another question: is there a way to make the webView take the whole screen (full screen) on landscape mode (when the phone becomes landscape)?
Using the WebView approach can cause problems on some devices. The VideoView approach will work well as long as you have a solid way to parse the correct url. In one of my applications we do this using regex and parsing through the html, so far it works fast and efficiently.
My application uses a simple VideoView .It uses an 3gp file from assetsbut all i can see is a blank screen and music of that video.
Would someone help me to display the video?
P.S-I am trying it on emulator?
Do not use emulator for testing video playback. Its ability to handle video playback is very limited. You should use actual device to play videos.
Check https://stackoverflow.com/a/3005928/1341006 by Commonsware for more details
I'd like to know how I can call a video from an external server database and play it in android? any helpful tutorials?
another question, when I play my video in emulator is it normal that it gives me a low quality and plays very slow..like moving in slow motion?
Emulators not responded quickly while you are playing video.I hope you understand that.
I've searched all over for a solution to this (including SO), however still haven't found a solution.
I need to have a simple video playback in my app. It's a bit less straightforward than a simple window with a video. Simplified, I have two layouts on my screen, one containing some other stuff and the other is to have the video window. There's also a button to switch between the two. This all works just fine, after I figured out that the videoview cannot be present on a view with visibility 'gone' - therefore I'm adding/removing it to/from container layout when needed.
However, I have the problem with the actual video playback. When I try to activate it, I get the dreaded error Sorry, this video cannot be played. One of the questions here on SO is discussing video formats (Android -- Can't play any videos (mp4/mov/3gp/etc.)?) - however I already have what seems to be the correct format, with 320px width and everything else. One of the answers on that thread mentions that videos from here "definitely work". I tried a couple from there - but I got another common beast: Sorry, this video is not valid for streaming to this device.
Please note that I'm testing on an actual device, as video playback is not working in the emulator. Also note that the solution must work on Android 1.6 and above (client's requirement). The device I'm testing on is LG GT540 Optimus with Android 2.1 (at present I don't have any other devices available).
From what I figured out, if I don't use qt-faststart on the videos, I get error Sorry, this video is not valid for streaming to this device. If I do use qt-faststart, then I get Sorry, this video cannot be played.
Here's my code for the playback:
VideoViewer videoPlayer = new VideoViewer(this);
MediaController mediaController = new MediaController(this);
mediaController.setAnchorView(videoPlayer);
videoPlayer.setMediaController(mediaController);
videoPlayer.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(object.getVideoURL()));
LinearLayout container = (LinearLayout)ObjectInfo.this.findViewById(R.id.VideoContainer);
container.setVisibility(VISIBLE);
container.addView(videoPlayer, new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT));
videoPlayer.requestFocus();
videoPlayer.start();
Now, the video I'm trying to play is to be progressive-downloaded from HTTP: object.getVideoURL() returns http://www.ooklnet.com/files/381/381489/video.mp4
Can anybody please help me sort this out? This is the last thing I need to complete before the whole app is ready.
Many thanks!
Edit: I tried using MediaPlayer - but got even worse results than with VideoView, so went back to VideoView. Now, in simulator, I get a black screen with controls hovering over it and the sound of the video is playing fine, also the progress is adjusting as the playback continues. However on my actual device, I'm still getting Sorry, this video cannot be played. error
Turned out the problem was with the format of the videos (specifically, the parameters I used with ffmpeg to create the MP4 videos). I ensured that the videos are baseline H.264 - and everything worked properly. See this question for more details.
Maybe you need to change the way you set up your MediaPlayer. I just plugged the url of your sample video into the apidemos example and it worked just fine.
See:
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/media/MediaPlayerDemo_Video.html
Hope that helps.