I have just started studying Android and I am still lost.
I would just like to ask if playlist for video files is supported in Android 2.3.3 and above?
I just found out that there is MediaStore.Audio.Playlist but no MediaStore.Video.Playlist.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
artsylar
Well yeah there is no such thing as MediaStore.Video.Playlist. And second thing is that if you want to play a list of video I strongly recommend you play them by folder (meaning you have a sort of listview that displays all of video in a folder you specified and play all of them, same as playlist). Why?
Because:
The point of using MediaStore is to have a convenient way to access ContentProvider which is sort of database that contains meta-data of copyright audio (tracks). If your audio is not licensed which means you are not buying the tracks from legal source, you wouldn't able to use MediaStore. So the same thing happens with videos
Use MX Player, it plays continuous videos also gives buttons to play next previous video in the list
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The requirement is to list a Videos thumbnails and on clicking it should play related video into Application. i am able to play url where video is located using Video View. But now i want to implement this thing in a better ways like Watsapp and instagram. If anybody have a good experience in this reference please share with me. I want to play around caching video and playing videos from cache without buffering (Video view is showing buffering bar and very slow in performance user have to wait a lot for starting a Video). Any kind of help will be appreciated. thanks.
I did it own my own. It's very simple to implement What i do is to download the video with async task along with a progressing seek bar. Once it's downloaded i'll save it in a Folder in my sdcard. We should create a Folder named as Application name so easy to identify and also always available videos with out opening application as well and next time however when i want to watch video again in my application it just check weather it is available in sdcard if yes then play immediately if not then download it. I am happy.
everyone!
Me and my team are developing some audio books that we will sell through our android application and our users will also listen them using the in-app mp3 player. We want to find a method (paid or free) to be able to protect our mp3's so the user cannot copy them and play with their own player.
I am aware that someone that is determined can crack anything, but our user targets are not computer geeks, but regular people that want a product that works and occasionally might try to cheat the system
Do you know any system that is easy to implement and can meet our objectives ?
Thank you in advance.
Do you know any system that is easy to implement and can meet our objectives ?
Stream the files from your server (e.g., using RTSP), or store them in internal storage on the device. Those will stop "regular people that want a product that works and occasionally might try to cheat the system" from being able to access MP3 files, which you can then play back using MediaPlayer within your own app ("in-app mp3 player").
Assume I have the id (The numbers and signs in the video's hyperlink after "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=") of a Youtube video. How can I download the audio stream of the file to an sd-card as an mp3 with android code? (I wrote an application for 2.x but this part is missing).
Look at how some other YouTube scrapers do it, e.g. youtube-dl. Then recreate their algorithm in Java for Android. Then keep spending time trying to stay up-to-date with the capricious changes YouTube will make to their site every now and then.
I've been following this blog to help me make a simple music player function with an Android app (http://simonmacdonald.blogspot.com/2011/05/using-media-class-in-phonegap.html).
All works well - but I would like some way to extract a list of all music media stored on the phone so the user can click a file and play it. Does anyone know if this is possible via phone gap? I'd need to access track name/artist etc and a link to the track.
Cheers
Paul
Prognosis is not good.... PhoneGap does not have an API for accessing the media library. So, you would have to fall back to the File API to locate music files, and then... you would have to read the binary data in the actual files to extract out the track/artist metadata. Ouch. Seems pretty impractical.
[EDIT]
By the way, PhoneGap is not the only game in town. Appcelerator seems to solve the same problem, and apparently has a richer API, which includes
access to media metadata
I am looking to develop an application where I have to stream .m3u file, this is for ANDROID 3.0 only.
I want to stream this link
dl.dropbox.com/u/2377944/test/abr_test/index.m3u8
it must work in emulator too
I searched a lot, but nothing seems to be working too good.
Please help.
Thanks in advance.
m3u is a play list format, a text file, and not actually audio/video media itself. That means it references media that you would want to stream. The distinction is important.
The contents of the m3u file is important. (Your link is dead, btw.) Show that to use and we can help more. Each of the media files contained in the m3u must be valid and point to media that is compatible with Android.
What makes the media compatable? Check the Android Supported Media Formats page.