My guess is the video isn't the right size, so the device is struggling to scale the video and/or the bitrate is just too high... Try a lower bitrate, and check the dimensions of your video.
On Jul 22, 7:49 am, berliner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > what could be the reason that a mp4 video file without sound doesn't > play correctly when using the VideoView class? The video plays just > fine in vlc, mplayer and ubuntu media player. It has been created on > the device using ffmpeg. It is like 5 seconds long, so nothing > especially big. Codec is H263 with AAC-Audio, though the audio signal > is just empty. The problem is, that the video plays, but the image > doesn't change, or at least doesn't change a lot. It seems more like a > still image, though small movements is sometimes visible but not at > all what has been encoded. I noticed that the VideoView stops playing > but the time continues to step up, so it doesn't stop counting after 5 > seconds but just goes on counting. > > I'm using the emulator. Can that be related? I see the following > messages in logcat: > W/PlayerDriver: Using generic video MIO > D/AudioSink: bufferCount (4) is too small and increased to 12 > E/SW_DEC: PV SW DECODER is used for MPEG4 > W/MediaPlayer: info/warning (1, 44) > I/MediaPlayer: Info (1, 44) > D/MediaPlayer: getMetadata > W/AudioFlinger: write blocked for 118msecs, 1630 delayed writes, > thread 0xb388 > W/MediaPlayer: Attempt to seek to past end of file: request = 5559, > EOF 4018 > ... > > What could be the reason? Any ideas? Might it be an encoder problem? > > best regards, > berliner -- 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
