Show video inside of a dialog box

HectorSavage · by **HectorSavage** » Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:20 pm

hello,

is it possible to show a video inside of a dialog box(e.g. custom dialog)? i googled a lot about this issue, but couldn't find anything.
does anybody have experience with this?

thank you!

AndSmash · by **AndSmash** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:29 am

I haven't used MediaPlayer to play video but I think as long as you can define a layout with a MediaPlayer you should be able to do it.

Here is my guess how to go about it.
Within your activity:

Dialog d = new Dialog(this);
d.setContentView(R.layout.your_layout_with_a_media_player);
d.show();

To get a reference to that MediaPlayer:

MediaPlayer mp = (MediaPlayer)d.findViewById(R.id.your_media_player_id);

EDIT: Actually, you can't define a MediaPlayer in a layout so scratch that

HectorSavage · by **HectorSavage** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:55 pm

i found a way to show a video inside of a dialog. but it's still kind of buggy.

the code is quick and dirty, no exception catching etc.
i created a new xml file called videoview. it contains a linearlayout and a videoview.

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                Context mContext = (Context) activity; // activity is the main activity
 
                Dialog dialog = new Dialog(mContext);
 
                dialog.setTitle("Video");
 
                dialog.setContentView(R.layout.videoview); // set the layout of the dialog
 
                VideoView myVideo = (VideoView) dialog.findViewById(R.id.VideoView01);
 
                myVideo.setVideoPath("/sdcard/video.wmv");
 
                MediaController mc = new MediaController(mContext);
 
                mc.setMediaPlayer(myVideo);
 
                mc.setAnchorView(myVideo);
 
                myVideo.setMediaController(mc);
 
                myVideo.requestFocus();
 
                myVideo.start();
 
                dialog.show();
 
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ok, video playback works fine, but some problems occured:

1. the mediacontroller is bound to the activity and the dialog "lays over" the activity, so the mc can't be clicked.
i can define own buttons that work like the mediacontroller.
2. the layout of the dialog gets kind of crashed as the videoview resizes its view after scaling the video. picture attached...

suggestions for solving the second problem would be very nice!

yaj786 · by **yaj786** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:51 am

Why would you do this?

Maybe you should just use a new activity and set the theme to a dialog theme?

HectorSavage · by **HectorSavage** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:57 am

yaj786 wrote:Why would you do this?

Maybe you should just use a new activity and set the theme to a dialog theme?

because a popup dialog window looks much better than a normal new activity with videoview and might be more user-friendly.

yaj786 · by **yaj786** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 7:51 pm

Yeah your right I suppose.

Either way you can do what I said, it will have all of the features and none of the bugs

(I think. The resizing of video might still cause a problem, but I doubt it.)

Emmanuel7 · by **Emmanuel7** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:14 pm

Are you sure you have to use a dialog for that ?

Can't you just use any view Widget with the video player inside, and hide it till you don't need it ?
Then you will even be able to use the animations to have it appear in a funky way !

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