If that's the case, the algorithm for computing required buffer must be WAY off. On a three minute video that takes about 1.5 - 2 minutes to download on a particular EDGE connection (i.e., download speed is faster than realtime playback), playback doesn't begin until about 2 minutes after download was initiated.
On Oct 8, 1:24 pm, Marco Nelissen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
