Playing video on Android

philspitler

I have a simple video player Processing sketch that plays some videos.

The issue is it won't run under Android due to the lack of video.processing library not being available.

How would I play a video in Processing in such a way that it would work on Android devices?

Thanks for any advice.

Phil

calsign

I'm pretty sure that APWidgets has a video player.

philspitler

Thanks Calsign, I looked at APWidgets but couldn't get it playing a video yet.

Have you had success playing video?

I think the first issue I have is how to give it the path of the video, any idea?

Thanks.

Phil

calsign

I have not used APWidgets personally, but it has worked for others before.

Have you looked at the APVideoView Example (I'm pretty sure it comes with the distribution as well...)?

If it still doesn't work, please post the code that you are having difficulty with.

philspitler

The video example is great but it takes the mp4 from from the SD card, my Android phone doesn't have an SD card and cannot figure out how to specify an mp4.

I can get a .wav file to play from my /data/ folder but if I put an mp4 in there my app just errors.

I think it could be a path issue but not sure.

Thanks.

Phil

akenaton

package com.akenaton.travail;

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar.LayoutParams;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.media.MediaMetadataRetriever;
import android.media.MediaPlayer;
import android.media.MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.DisplayMetrics;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.MediaController;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;
import android.widget.VideoView;
import java.nio.Buffer;
import java.util.HashMap;







public class TravailACTIVITE extends Activity {
    int cp = 0;
    int hauteur;
    int largeur;
    int[] tableauCouleurs;
    int K = 0;
    TextView t = null;
    VideoView vd = null;
    public String uri;
    public Bitmap mFrameBitmap;
    @Override
    protected  void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_travail_activite);

        //pour lancer la video

        VideoView vd = (VideoView)findViewById(R.id.video);
        uri = "android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.my_video_file;
        vd.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(uri));
        //MediaController mc = new MediaController(this);//pour avoir un controleur
        //vd.setMediaController(mc);
        vd.setOnPreparedListener (new OnPreparedListener() {  //pour mettre en boucle                  

            public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
                mp.setLooping(true);
            }
        });



        vd.start();//ici la video a démarré, on s'occupe du texte


        TextView t = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.texte_toast);
        t.setText("est ce que ce texte s'écrira sur la video");
        //pour positionner le texte sur la video avec des coordonnées
        RelativeLayout.LayoutParams position = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
        position.leftMargin = 40;
        position.topMargin  = 150;
        t.setLayoutParams(position);

}











    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.travail_activite, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
        // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
        // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
        int id = item.getItemId();
        if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
            return true;
        }
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}

class MyCustomView extends View{

    /*
    these viewWidth and viewHeight class variables
    will be used to store this CustomView's width and height dimensions
    as obtained from the automatic onSizeChanged() method call
     */
   /* int viewWidth = 0;
    int viewHeight = 0;

    public MyCustomView(Context context) {
            super(context);
    }

    /*
    This onSizeChanged() method gets called automatically
    BEFORE the view gets layed out or drawn for the first time.
    It alse gets called when the view's orientation changes
    or gets resized etc. This is the method that does the trick.
    In this method, you get your view's updated dimensions.
    Then you should store these dimension values into
    the global int variables that are declared above.
    Later, you can call these global variables to read what
    is the new width or height of the object
    --------- thanks to kgiannakakis May 25 '10 at 9:18
    --------- http://ow.ly/44hzw 
    */
    /*
    @Override
    protected void onSizeChanged(int xNew, int yNew, int xOld, int yOld){
            super.onSizeChanged(xNew, yNew, xOld, yOld);
            viewWidth = xNew;
            viewHeight = yNew;
            /*
            these viewWidth and viewHeight variables
            are the global int variables
            that were declared above
            */
  //  }

    /*
    This method gets called automatically
    when the view needs to get drawn onto the layout
    */

    /*
    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas){
            super.onDraw(canvas);
            /*
            finally, once the view gets drawn on to the screen
            we can retrieve the dimension values
            as stored in the global variables declared above
            */
           // String msg = "width: " + viewWidth + "height: " + viewHeight;
            //System.out.println(msg);
  //  }*//
//}*/

akenaton

of course that is using eclipse && android!!!

Vijay_Karthick

I guess you need to can change the video to individual frames and playback the frames... that's what I did!