Right David, it seems pretty bad. The issue is reported also in http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=398
which I found after submitting http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=739 I hope these limitations get fixed for the next Android SDK, because I don't like the idea of messing around with scratchpad files. On May 31, 2:59 pm, David Given <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > blindfold wrote: > > [...] > > > However, in android.media.MediaPlayer I only find create() for URIs > > and > > for resources, and not for ByteArrayInputStream!? Does that mean that > > Android cannot be used for in-memory audio synthesis? Or do I overlook > > some alternative way of programming in Android? > > MediaPlayer.create() is just a convenience function --- you ought to be > able to do: > > FileDescriptor fd = something.getFD(); > MediaPlayer mp = new MediaPlayer(); > mp.setDataSource(fd, "audio/wav"); // FIXME check MIME type! > > Unfortunately the documentation (which is unevenly indexed) doesn't > mention getFD() on anything other than file streams. There *may* be a > way somewhere of being able to create a Unix pipe, opening it, and > giving MediaPlayer a FileDescriptor that way, but I wouldn't know how. > > I'm currently writing an app using MediaPlayer extensively, and my > experiences indicate that it's extremely touchy --- large chunks of it > don't work, error reporting is poor, it's missing key bits of > functionality (such as synthesised audio!) and it's very touchy. If you > do anything the slightest bit wrong it has a tendency to crash your app. > > You might want to wait for the next SDK, or mug a top-50 winner... > > -- > ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ─────http://www.cowlark.com───── > │ "I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my > │ telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out > │ how to use my telephone." --- Bjarne Stroustrup > > signature.asc > 1KDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
