The media framework uses various private APIs, has components that talk directly to hardware (DSPs for encoding/decoding, etc), etc. This doesn't seem to me like a good idea.
And not for perspective -- you would not end up with two instances of media service always running, because you are writing an app, not a low-level system service. On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Kiran Rao <techie.curi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the response b0b. > > I realize MediaPlayer will not do the job for me - at least in 2.2. But, > is there any framework-level requirement that is stopping me from building > the newer media framework source and deploying it on 2.2? Perhaps this > would make my app prohibitively large? Or performance impact? (Since 2 > instance of media service will always be running) ?? > > > On Thursday, 26 April 2012 16:03:31 UTC+5:30, b0b wrote: >> >> I wouldn't care about Android 2.2 at this point, as the MediaPlayer is >> really incomplete and buggy in this version and lower. >> It is a lot better in 2.3.x and above. >> >> Most third party video players use ffmpeg as the media framework. >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@android.com Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
