Why are you using HTTP Live Streaming for pre-recorded audio?

This doesn't sound like the best tool for the job.

Thanks.


On Saturday, April 27, 2013 10:10:55 PM UTC-5, Larry Meadors wrote:
>
> Yes, I call prepareAsync after I register a OnPreparedListenter - this 
> is happening after that gets triggered (as a test, in the onPrepared 
> method, I log the duration: It's zero there, too). 
>
> What's really strange to me (here's a snippet) is that it takes a few 
> seconds to determine the duration. 
>
> --- 
> mediaPlayer.start(); 
> mediaPlayer.pause(); 
> Log.d(TAG, "waiting 10 seconds for duration to be known..."); 
> long waitForIt = System.currentTimeMillis() + 10000; 
> while (System.currentTimeMillis() < waitForIt) { 
>   if (mediaPlayer.getDuration() > 0) break; 
> } 
> Log.d(TAG, "now:       " + System.currentTimeMillis()); 
> Log.d(TAG, "waitForIt: " + waitForIt); 
> Log.d(TAG, "duration:  " + mediaPlayer.getDuration()); 
>
> Log.d(TAG, "seeking to: " + milliseconds); 
> Log.d(TAG, "playing:    " + mediaPlayer.isPlaying()); 
> mediaPlayer.seekTo(milliseconds); 
> --- 
>
> This hideous mess takes anywhere from 2-6 seconds to break out of the 
> while loop. Once it does, I get a duration and can call seekTo(). 
>
> Also, even though the start() and pause() calls are executed that 
> close together, they still cause the player to play 1-2 seconds of 
> audio. 
>
> Without those calls, the full 10 seconds elapse and I *still* don't 
> get a duration and seekTo doesn't work. :-/ 
>
> Larry 
>

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