Should I use two files and swap between them while playing and downloading?
On Nov 1, 2009 10:44 PM, "Vladimir" <odess...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello, all!
I've been working on an app to stream some radio content. I get the
stream and save it to a file. When there is enough of it to play, I
invoke MediaPlayer and pass in the file.
Here is the question...since MediaPlayer sees only the portion of the
mp3 file that has already been written when MediaPlayer was
instantiated, I have to instantiate multiple MediaPlayers and call the
seekto() method. But the reinstantiation creates a short gap in
playback -- about half a second (have been testing the app in the
emulator, but I'm guessing the same will happen on the actual phone).
I'm sure this has been solved by others -- any suggestions???
Below is the thread that's called from within my Service once the
initial buffering has been done. All this does is repeatedly calling
the play() method that just reprocessing the mp3 file (while another
thread is writing to that mp3 file).
private final Thread watchRadioPlayer = new Thread() {
public void run() {
while (isDownloading) {
curPosition =
RadioPlayer.play(OnlineRadioRetriever.fileName,
curPosition);
int delay = curPosition - previousPosition;
previousPosition = curPosition;
try {
synchronized (this) {
wait(delay);
}
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
Log.e("watchRadioPlayer", "Exception
while calling wait: ", e);
}
Log.d("watchRadioPlayer", "RUNNING for : " +
delay);
}
Log.d("watchRadioPlayer", "The THREAD is dead");
}
};
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