Video playback on Android

Android Processing

fenicento

in Android Processing • 7 months ago

Hi,

I'm trying to play a video file in a processing sketch on an Android tablet. I'm using APWidgets since it's the only suitable library I found for the purpose. When the sketch starts the audio plays fine but the screen is black.

Does anyone know how to solve this, or are there other libraries I can use?

Thanks!

Daniele

Replies(5)

fenicento

Re: Video playback on Android

7 months ago

I post the code - it won't be that useful, I guess...

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import apwidgets.*;
APVideoView videoView;
APWidgetContainer container;
void setup()
{
container = new APWidgetContainer(this); //create a new widget container
videoView = new APVideoView(10, 50, 1200, 780, false); //create a new video view, without media controller
videoView.setVideoPath("/sdcard/Prova.mp4"); //specify the path to the video file
container.addWidget(videoView); //place the video view in the container
videoView.start(); //start playing the video
videoView.setLooping(true); //restart the video when the end of the file is reached
}
void draw()
{
background(255); //black background
text(videoView.getDuration(), 10, 10); //display the length of the video in milliseconds
text(videoView.getCurrentPosition(), 10, 30); //visa hur långt videon spelats
}

joester5

Re: Video playback on Android

7 months ago

I have the same problem on my Galaxy tablet and apwidgets. I've been using the updated ketai library to capture live video, so it may be a place to look for playback as well.

Ja_Ha

Re: Video playback on Android

7 months ago

hi fenicento...

I tried to play the video on my android device with help of your program.

i successfully upload the movie program on my device but when i play the program on my device it shows me "can't play this video". Video is in Sdcard memory and name is also correct.

Thanking you in anticipation

julienrat

Re: Video playback on Android

7 months ago

hi Ja_Ha, try this without upload files on your device, (activate internet permissions), (it works for me)

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import apwidgets.*;

APVideoView videoView;
APWidgetContainer container;

void setup()
{
        container = new APWidgetContainer(this); //create a new widget container
        videoView = new APVideoView(10, 50, 1200, 780, false); //create a new video view, without media controller
        videoView.setVideoPath("http://download.blender.org/peach/bigbuckbunny_movies/BigBuckBunny_320x180.mp4"); //specify the path to the video file
        container.addWidget(videoView); //place the video view in the container
        videoView.start(); //start playing the video
        videoView.setLooping(true); //restart the video when the end of the file is reached

}

void draw()
{
background(255); //black background
text(videoView.getDuration(), 10, 10); //display the length of the video in milliseconds
text(videoView.getCurrentPosition(), 10, 30); //visa hur långt videon spelats
}

Ja_Ha

Re: Re: Video playback on Android

7 months ago

Hi julienrat...

Thank you for your reply.

I tried your code but the result is same "sorry this video cannot be played".

I prefer to do this with video's present in SDcard because in the end i need to control videos by accelrometer.