Yes, there is a bug that the media download is happening on the main ui thread. You should be seeing a native warning message (see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4133) about this.
I've not found a bug filed specifically for this yet, so filed here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5378 On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Nick Burka <n...@silverorange.com> wrote: > I’ve been implementing a simple Media playback app. It looks something > like: > > console.log(’start'); > mediaPlayer = new Media( > uri_to_my_mp3_file, > mediaSuccess, > mediaError, > mediaStatus); > > console.log(’end’); > mediaPlayer.play(); > > When the JavaScript executes, it takes 20+ seconds between the ‘start’ and > ‘end’ logs. Then when I seekTo() on the playing file, it’s virtually > instantaneous. I presume that the Media class is downloading the entire > file on instantiation? > > A few other people seem to have the same problem: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19938383/phonegap-build-media-play-takes-a-long-time-to-start-playing > > http://community.phonegap.com/nitobi/topics/phone_gap_media_api_ios_slow_loading > > Any help would be much appreciated.
