Donut (1.6) shipped with OpenCore 2.x, whereas previously we were
using OpenCore 1.x.
>From your description is sounds like opencore 2 is more aggressive
about buffering on slow connections, to avoid running out of data at
the end.


On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:09 AM, dadical <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dianne is there any chance that such threading changes would affect
> the playback of media in a VideoView?  I've noticed that since 1.6,
> when I'm on a low-bandwidth connection (e.g., EDGE) videos being
> loaded over HTTP start playing, but then pause until the file is
> pretty much completely downloaded, at which point playback continues.
> Code is pretty straightforward:
>
>   mVideoView.setVideoURI(pResult);
>   final MediaController lMediaController = new MediaController
> (IntroVideoActivity.this);
>   mVideoView.setMediaController(lMediaController);
>   lMediaController.show(0);
>   mVideoView.setKeepScreenOn(true);
>   mVideoView.requestFocus();
>   mVideoView.start();
>
> Dave
>
> On Oct 7, 12:23 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) <
>>
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>> > The new market app shows the screen shots that can be uploaded, so
>> > it's a nice update. There seems to be a lot of small changes and (this
>> > could be my imagination) the phone seems to run faster an smoother.
>>
>> There was a bunch of work done on thread scheduling to ensure that all
>> background apps together couldn't use more than a small fraction (I believe
>> we ended up with 5%) of the time that the foreground threads want.  It makes
>> a big difference for example when background syncs are running.
>>
>> Glad it's noticeable. :)
>>
>> --
>> Dianne Hackborn
>> Android framework engineer
>> [email protected]
>>
>> 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.
> >
>

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