On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Vladimir B <odess...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Thank you,
Dilli Rao. M
www.arijasoft.com
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