Wow, thank you for helping me through this. That was the little last little bit I needed. I finally got the video playing successfully by waiting until surfaceCreated to try calling prepare.
Though I have to admit that it feels like a lot of code to just to play a video. Thanks again, I hope this helps anyone else who was having similar issues. On Feb 14, 4:38 pm, Marco Nelissen <marc...@android.com> wrote: > I think you have to use the SurfaceHolder callbacks to find out when the > surface has actually been created, and *then* call setDisplay/prepare/start > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Brendan <raven...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks for all your help! I've been trying out your original idea, but > > I still seem to be having issues. > > > I have moved the SurfaceView to main.xml, it looks like this: > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > > <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/ > > android" > > android:orientation="vertical" > > android:layout_width="fill_parent" > > android:layout_height="fill_parent" > > > <SurfaceView android:id="@+id/surface_view" > > android:layout_height="fill_parent" > > android:layout_width="fill_parent"></SurfaceView> > > </LinearLayout> > > > And now onCreate looks like this: > > > setContentView(R.layout.main); > > SurfaceView sv = (SurfaceView) findViewById > > (R.id.surface_view); > > > SurfaceHolder holder = sv.getHolder(); > > holder.setType(SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_PUSH_BUFFERS); > > > try { > > MediaPlayer mp = new MediaPlayer(); > > AssetFileDescriptor afd = getResources().openRawResourceFd > > (R.raw.video); > > mp.setDataSource(afd.getFileDescriptor(), afd.getStartOffset(), > > afd.getLength()); > > afd.close(); > > mp.setDisplay(holder); > > mp.prepare(); > > mp.start(); > > } catch {...} > > > There are no errors ever thrown, but the process dies on mp.prepare() > > without any warning or useful debug info. Is there potentially some > > other way I should be setting the data source for a resource? Or > > something else I'm forgetting to do that would make prepare > > mysteriously kill the entire process? > > > On Feb 14, 3:16 pm, Marco Nelissen <marc...@android.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Brendan <raven...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Wow that sounds really convenient. Since the signature of the > > > > MediaPlayer.create() that takes a SurfaceHolder requires the second > > > > argument to be a URI and not a resource id, I tried creating a URI for > > > > the resource by doing this: > > > > Oh, right, of course. My original comment stands then :) > > > You'll have to use "new MediaPlayer" instead of the MediaPlayer.create > > > convenience method. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
