I have an app that displays a video using VideoView. The layout consists of a Clock and a VideoView laid out in a simple vertical LinearLayout.
Here's my code snippet that I use:
VideoView mVideoView = new VideoView(this);
mVideoView.setVideoPath(myVideoURL);
mVideoView.requestFocus();
mVideoView.start();
Since the buffering of the video takes about 8-10 seconds, the layout comes up with the Clock, but the VideoView stays blank. What I want to achieve is this:
-- Display an ImageView for the 10s while the video is buffering
-- Detect when the video is ready to be played (onPrepared?)
-- Show the Clock and VideoView and start the Video
Anyone have pointers on how to go about this?
Thanks
Chris
MediaPlayer will let you register an OnPreparedListener callback which you can use to determine when the video is ready to be started. So you would show your ImageView instead of your VideoView first, then when your callback gets called, change to the VideoView and start playing.
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I am using VideoView to play a video and have some difficulties to stop it and keep the last frame after video finishes playing. Currently I am stuck with black last frame after video ends.
Is there a way to accomplish that? Thank you.
To get the last frame of a video you can skip to its end by using:
video.seekTo(video.getDuration());
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);
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've got a simple videoview. I've made a stop button with:
myVideoView.stopPlayback();
but when it stops it keeps the last scene of the video in the videoview.
How can i reset the videoview after the video has been stopped?
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.