sharing a surfaceview between 2 mediaplayer

sbw.android · by **sbw.android** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:24 pm

hi,
I want to play 2 videos one after one minimizing delay between each video.
so I created 2 mediaplayer, one playing the current video and the other preparing to play the following video.

the 1st video is played correctely but I couldn't get the video track of the second video. only sound without any error. can somebody help?
thanks.

this is my source code :
(note that here, I am using files on sdcard but the application will use files on a web server. that's why I need to prepare the second video while the 1st is playing)

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package com.test.testvideo;
 
import android.app.Activity;
 
import android.os.Bundle;
 
import android.media.MediaPlayer;
 
import android.view.SurfaceView;
 
import android.util.Log;
 
import android.view.SurfaceHolder;
 
import android.media.AudioManager;
 
import android.widget.Button;
 
public class Test extends Activity implements
 
        MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener, SurfaceHolder.Callback,
 
        MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener {
 
        SurfaceView sf = null;
 
        int currplayer = 0;
 
        MediaPlayer mp1 = null;
 
        MediaPlayer mp0 = null;
 
        int currvideo = 0;
 
        SurfaceHolder holder = null;
 
        @Override
 
        public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
 
                super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
 
                setContentView(R.layout.main);
 
                this.sf = (SurfaceView)findViewById(R.id.sf);
 
                this.holder = sf.getHolder();
 
                holder.addCallback(this);
 
                holder.setType(SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_PUSH_BUFFERS);
 
        }
 
        public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp){
 
        Log.v("onPrepared()", "prepared...");
 
                if(currplayer == 0) {
 
                        currvideo++;
 
                        String nexturl = "/sdcard/"+currvideo+".3gp";
 
                        try {
 
                                mp1.setDataSource(nexturl);
 
                        }
 
                        catch(Exception e){
 
                        }
 
                        mp1.setDisplay(holder);
 
                        mp1.prepareAsync();
 
                        mp1.setOnPreparedListener(this);
 
                        mp1.setOnCompletionListener(this);
 
                        mp1.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
 
                        currplayer=1;
 
                }
 
        }
 
        public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
 
                Log.v("onCompletion()"+currplayer, "completed...");
 
                if(currplayer == 1) {
 
                        mp0.stop();
 
                        mp0.release();
 
                        mp1.start();
 
                        currplayer = 0;
 
                }
 
        }
 
        public void surfaceChanged(SurfaceHolder surfaceholder, int i, int j, int k) {
 
                Log.d("surfaceChanged()", "surfaceChanged...");
 
        }
 
        public void surfaceDestroyed(SurfaceHolder surfaceholder) {
 
                Log.d("surfaceDestroyed()", "surfaceDestroyed...");
 
        }
 
        public void surfaceCreated(SurfaceHolder holder) {
 
                Log.d("surfaceCreated()", "surfaceCreated...");
 
                mp0 = new MediaPlayer();
 
                mp1 = new MediaPlayer();
 
                try {
 
                        mp0.setDataSource("/sdcard/0.3gp");
 
                        mp0.setDisplay(holder);
 
                        mp0.prepare();
 
                }
 
                catch(Exception e){
 
                }
 
                mp0.setOnPreparedListener(this);
 
                mp0.setOnCompletionListener(this);
 
                mp0.start();
 
                mp0.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
 
        }
 
        @Override
 
        protected void onDestroy() {
 
                super.onDestroy();
 
                if (mp0 != null) {
 
                        mp0.release();
 
                        mp0 = null;
 
                }
 
                if (mp1 != null) {
 
                        mp1.release();
 
                        mp1 = null;
 
                }
 
        }
 
}
 
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yuvalkesten · by **yuvalkesten** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:51 pm

This is the way I am doing it:
I created two surface views, one takes most of the screen and the other takes only a really small size (So small the user won't notice it). I create the first media player and play it on the large surfaceview, I create the second on the small view, prepare it, when it is done preparing and I want to switch to it I simply change the size of the view such that the small view will become the large and vice versa.
Hope it helped...

sbw.android · by **sbw.android** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:38 am

thanks.
that's something I didn't expect to work since google devs recommends not using 2 surfaceview
http://groups.google.com/group/android- ... 24a2e48bb3

I will test it.

yuvalkesten · by **yuvalkesten** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:44 am

Hi,
What I told didn't work that well on the emulator - green spots appeared on the screen and stuff. When I moved to device debugging on my Google ION (HTC Magic - G2) it worked just great!
I guess that the difference probably relies on the fact that the devices have an hardware video decoder and the emulator obviously don't...

yuvalkesten · by **yuvalkesten** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:46 am

BTW - I managed, using two separate surface views, to run two videos simultaneously... But it was kind of "jumpy"...

sbw.android · by **sbw.android** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:14 pm

I tested your solution. it looks much better than using on mediaplayer on one surfaceview but I still have a little video interruption (tested on a G1) .
I will do some other tests later. depending on where I start/stop the videos (on video completion / on surface change / ...), I get different behaviours. I may have some tweaking possibilities.
thanks.

yuvalkesten · by **yuvalkesten** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 4:13 pm

Just tested displaying two videos (streaming) one next to each other, on the G2 it is working great...

eidolon · by **eidolon** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 6:52 am

yuvalkesten wrote:This is the way I am doing it:
I created two surface views, one takes most of the screen and the other takes only a really small size (So small the user won't notice it). I create the first media player and play it on the large surfaceview, I create the second on the small view, prepare it, when it is done preparing and I want to switch to it I simply change the size of the view such that the small view will become the large and vice versa.
Hope it helped...

Hi,I'm beginner for android.Can u tell me how to do that??

yuvalkesten · by **yuvalkesten** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:45 am

I will post my code during the weekend but I am sure that you can learn how to create surface views with different sizes using the android dev tutorials...

eidolon · by **eidolon** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:51 am

yuvalkesten wrote:I will post my code during the weekend but I am sure that you can learn how to create surface views with different sizes using the android dev tutorials...

Hi yuvalkesten,thanks very much.Could you sent your code to me??My email is eidolonStudio@gmail.com

eidolon · by **eidolon** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 4:12 am

yuvalkesten wrote:I will post my code during the weekend but I am sure that you can learn how to create surface views with different sizes using the android dev tutorials...

take it up

eidolon · by **eidolon** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 7:54 am

take it up.

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