[android-beginners] Re: Errors in VideoPlayer

2009-05-18 Thread Dave Sparks
That code is very old and based on a pre-release SDK. Try looking at the code here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/index.html On May 14, 7:18 pm, weird0 amiredi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I have implemented the VideoPlayer example from the following link:

[android-beginners] Re: playing sounds simultaneously

2009-04-30 Thread Dave Sparks
There is no way to start two audio tracks simultaneously in the current API. What you are asking for is an advanced audio API like ASIO that has support for synchronizing multiple audio tracks. We'll probably add something like that in the future, but there are higher priorities at the moment.

[android-beginners] Re: Replaying static AudioTrack

2009-04-30 Thread Dave Sparks
Try calling stop() before you call reloadStaticData(). On Apr 29, 5:35 am, peter.kullm...@googlemail.com peter.kullm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I am using AudioTrack to play a sound sample in static mode. I can manage to have it played once, but fail on replaying the AudioTrack. The docs

[android-beginners] Re: playing sounds simultaneously

2009-04-30 Thread Dave Sparks
, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.com wrote: There is no way to start two audio tracks simultaneously in the current API. What you are asking for is an advanced audio API like ASIO that has support for synchronizing multiple audio tracks. We'll probably add something like that in the future

[android-beginners] Re: Play sounds to caller

2009-04-17 Thread Dave Sparks
No, it is not possible. On Apr 15, 10:35 pm, Joao Bosco joao.bosco.sei...@gmail.com wrote: Does g1 support play music into gsm channels? When i answer the call, I want to play my local music to the caller through gsm channel. the caller will hear 2 sounds.. my voice and the local music.

[android-beginners] Re: How to record audio in wav format?

2009-04-14 Thread Dave Sparks
There is no way to record in WAVE format with current version of Android. With the Cupcake SDK, you can record and write your own WAVE file. On Apr 14, 2:13 am, dragonksn dragon...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I used to record an audio file in 3gp format and AMR audio encoder by using this

[android-beginners] Re: Convert framebuffer in video

2009-03-25 Thread Dave Sparks
We have no plans to support this function in the framework. It's a significant security risk (allowing an application to snoop the frame buffer), and on some hardware, the app processor may not even have access to the final framebuffer. On Mar 24, 8:11 am, Cartouche hafid.s...@gmail.com wrote:

[android-beginners] Re: Convert framebuffer in video

2009-03-25 Thread Dave Sparks
the framebuffer, or it's really impossible to do what I want ? Cartouche. On 25 mar, 07:22, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.com wrote: We have no plans to support this function in the framework. It's a significant security risk (allowing an application to snoop the frame buffer), and on some

[android-beginners] Re: Making things louder

2009-03-16 Thread Dave Sparks
3, 11:38 pm, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.com wrote: There are 3 things that affect volume: 1. The stream volume controlled by the user. Your application should never touch this volume unless it is a control panel (an example of this is a location-based service that silences your phone

[android-beginners] Re: Accessing the sound input/output stream in the phone (sound modulation, sound synthesis, DTMF)

2009-03-04 Thread Dave Sparks
It is currently not possible to access GSM audio from the application processor from the Android stack. It is possible to control DTMF signaling, start new calls, and control almost all other aspects of telephony. On Mar 4, 5:19 am, Jozef Habdank jahabd...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Android

[android-beginners] Re: Making things louder

2009-03-03 Thread Dave Sparks
There are 3 things that affect volume: 1. The stream volume controlled by the user. Your application should never touch this volume unless it is a control panel (an example of this is a location-based service that silences your phone when you are in a theater). Assuming your application is some

[android-beginners] Re: Real Audio

2009-03-02 Thread Dave Sparks
No, Android does not have support for RA formats. On Mar 2, 10:04 am, AA ayma...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to play real audio files on my G1? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Beginners

[android-beginners] Re: Playing PCM buffer

2009-02-26 Thread Dave Sparks
We are not supporting native applications at this time. On Feb 26, 12:52 am, Tamás Iván ivant...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to send raw PCM data directly to the Android player engine in C++? If yes, which class supports this use case? I am porting a huge C++ application with its own

[android-beginners] Re: Native music playlist format

2009-02-25 Thread Dave Sparks
Unless I'm mistaken, Music Player currently doesn't support URL's in playlists. I think playlists are stored in the DB, not as flat files. We're looking at improving support for streamed content in a future release, including playlists with mixed remote and local streams. There are some

[android-beginners] Re: Audio streaming

2009-02-25 Thread Dave Sparks
There is limited support for streaming MP3 over HTTP in 1.0 release. You simply pass in the URL you want play. This requires an HTTP 1.1 server (not Shoutcast). There is no support for extracting metadata from the stream. Cupcake adds the capability to stream raw PCM audio from your Java

[android-beginners] Re: Integrating my external library

2009-02-16 Thread Dave Sparks
Officially, we do not support native libraries in SDK 1.0. We plan to provide support for native libraries in the near future. On Feb 15, 11:19 pm, Ashutosh Agrawal ashuto...@lge.com wrote: Hi, Though I have gone through the available documentation and the source code, I am somewhat

[android-beginners] Re: How to make the sound heard over the phone.

2009-02-15 Thread Dave Sparks
No, that is not possible with the G1 at this time. The application processor does not have access to uplink or downlink audio. On Feb 15, 12:59 am, frizzo rg...@vbrad.com wrote: If I am on a line with another person and I switch to another app and play a sound using the code below:

[android-beginners] Re: problem with repo init

2009-02-15 Thread Dave Sparks
Try the repo-discuss list. This list is for beginning application developers. On Feb 14, 4:54 pm, jbr jbrsubscr...@gmail.com wrote: When I try to set up my android dev. environment it fails with the following output. Can someone perhaps give me some pointers as to what is happening here? I

[android-beginners] Re: Is there a way to make the MediaPlayer non-blocking

2009-02-13 Thread Dave Sparks
The start() only blocks for a fraction of a second. We use this code all the time all over the code and it would break a lot of things if it did block until playback completes. I'm pretty confident that you have a bug in your code somewhere. On Feb 13, 1:16 pm, frizzo rg...@vbrad.com wrote: I

[android-beginners] Re: Supported video formats

2009-02-13 Thread Dave Sparks
I wonder if the problem is the 48KHz sample rate. I'm pretty sure we test it for MP3 playback, but I'm not sure that we have any test material for MP4 files. I'll ask someone to look into that. On Feb 13, 7:50 am, Strawp ikwall...@gmail.com wrote: Wondering if any details from mplayer would

[android-beginners] Re: regarding playing mpeg4 h.264 video file in android player

2009-02-13 Thread Dave Sparks
The res directory inside your source tree does not equate to a directory on the device. It's just a convention for telling the aapt compiler what resources need to be included in the APK. Anything you put in the res directory ends up zipped up inside the APK file along with the Java code. If you

[android-beginners] Re: Audio Processing Options

2009-02-13 Thread Dave Sparks
PM, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.comwrote: It's on the roadmap for Cupcake. On Feb 10, 4:06 pm, clark clarkd...@gmail.com wrote: All you really need is a method to access the raw data of the sound. With that you can do whatever kind of DSP stuff you want. The real question

[android-beginners] Re: Supported video formats

2009-02-11 Thread Dave Sparks
There is no support for MPEG4-ASP required for XviD. I'm not sure why you're not hearing sound from the MP4 clip. Is this emulator or a G1 device? http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html Some encoding tips: H.264 (AVC) is preferred for G1 due to h/w acceleration. Max

[android-beginners] Re: Supported video formats

2009-02-11 Thread Dave Sparks
with the app that produced it. I doubt this would affect sound data (and besides it works on other systems). I will try a lower bitrate video. Not sure what else to try. On Feb 11, 11:35 am, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.com wrote: There is no support for MPEG4-ASP required for XviD

[android-beginners] Re: how can i upload audio file into res/raw folder

2009-02-10 Thread Dave Sparks
You can't upload your audio file into res/raw. You can place an audio file in the res/raw folder when you compile your code and aapt will compile it into the APK along with the code and other resources. You can then play it by using the MediaPlayer with code roughly like this: MediaPlayer mp =

[android-beginners] Re: Camera class doesn't save exif data?

2009-02-10 Thread Dave Sparks
information. Should i be using the ImageManager to save the images? I still can't for the life of me see where the rest of the EXIF information comes from either! Any ideas? Cheers, George On Feb 10, 7:46 am, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.com wrote: That looks reasonable to me. What

[android-beginners] Re: MediaScanner

2009-02-10 Thread Dave Sparks
to the card over the air. On Feb 9, 11:55 pm, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.com wrote: There are 2 ways that the average user is going to add files to the SD card: 1. Remove the SD card from the device, and plug it into a PC or other device to transfer files. 2. UMS mount the SD card

[android-beginners] Re: Camera class doesn't save exif data?

2009-02-10 Thread Dave Sparks
On Feb 10, 5:49 pm, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.com wrote: As far as I can tell, the only information we pass down through theCamera.java layer to thecameradriver is geo-location. All the other EXIF data comes from the driver itself. ImageManager can be used to write additional EXIF data

[android-beginners] Re: Audio Processing Options

2009-02-10 Thread Dave Sparks
some DSP algorithms on it, i.e. a guitar tuner! Thanks, ~clark On Jan 8, 10:23 pm, Mr.Black vancoolbl...@gmail.com wrote: Oh cmon man ... make it happen please coz, i will use it too Thanks. On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.comwrote

[android-beginners] Re: How to play video on background

2009-02-09 Thread Dave Sparks
This is not supported in SDK 1.0. You must have a surface to display the video. If the surface is destroyed, you must pause the video. On Feb 8, 3:23 am, PianoPan piano...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I refer to the code of apidemo to write a program to play video. I use the MediaPlayer to play the

[android-beginners] Re: MediaScanner

2009-02-09 Thread Dave Sparks
What are you trying to accomplish by scanning a path or the entire phone periodically? We try to discourage this because it affects battery life. The correct way to handle a new media file is to send an intent to the MediaScanner to scan the file immediately after it is created. On Feb 8, 10:41

[android-beginners] Re: Camera class doesn't save exif data?

2009-02-09 Thread Dave Sparks
, 1233744883);                         mCamera.setParameters(parameters);                         mCamera.takePicture(null, null, mPictureCallback);                         return true;                 }                 return false;         } On Feb 6, 6:16 pm, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.com

[android-beginners] Re: MediaScanner

2009-02-09 Thread Dave Sparks
the database to get updated. Looking into intents, I came across MEDIA_MOUNTED. I seek your opinion on using this intent to trigger MediaScanner to scan the sdcard when the user wants to. Bad idea? Let me know! Thanks, Rohan On Feb 9, 9:53 pm, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.com wrote

[android-beginners] Re: android file permissions on the G1

2009-02-08 Thread Dave Sparks
The SD card will be mounted read-only if any file system corruption is detected. Current remedy is to mount the SD card in your computer and use the file system checker to correct the problems. I believe Cupcake will fix corruption when the SD card is mounted, with a notification to the user

[android-beginners] Re: Camera class doesn't save exif data?

2009-02-06 Thread Dave Sparks
regarding an EXIF helper class, any pointers? Thanks, George On Feb 6, 3:28 am, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.com wrote: If you wrote your own app, you need to use the location services to get position and use the EXIF helper class to set the coordinates. We may have found

[android-beginners] Re: implementing of seek bar in media player

2009-02-06 Thread Dave Sparks
See MovieView.java in the open source tree. It should include code for the MediaController class. On Feb 6, 3:37 am, Er. syed imran ali imran...@gmail.com wrote: hello Dear friends! i am trying to implement seekbar or progress bar, but i am getting problem to synchronize with file. so, if

[android-beginners] Re: Androids music app

2009-02-06 Thread Dave Sparks
You can't modify the built-in version, but you can download the source code and modify to suit your needs and load it onto your device as a different application. Go to android.git.kernel.org and look for packages/apps/Music in the repo manifest. On Feb 6, 3:32 pm, dent_a karl.bana...@gmail.com

[android-beginners] Re: Camera class doesn't save exif data?

2009-02-05 Thread Dave Sparks
If you wrote your own app, you need to use the location services to get position and use the EXIF helper class to set the coordinates. We may have found a bug in the G1 camera driver that affects altitude and certain geo-locations near the prime meridian. On Feb 5, 10:00 am, George

[android-beginners] Re: Camera Preview Sizing

2009-02-04 Thread Dave Sparks
Make sure your constructor is declared public. This is a common mistake when adding custom views to a layout file. On Feb 4, 5:13 pm, Vternal Android mdunsm...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks this is very helpful. Further down I found: E/AndroidRuntime( 2846): Caused by:

[android-beginners] Re: Camera Preview Sizing

2009-02-04 Thread Dave Sparks
I display a jpeg? How does theCamerado it? Any help will be much appreciated. m. On Jan 25, 9:33 am, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.com wrote: The preview surface on the G1 can be any size within a factor of 2x (if I remember correctly) of the dimensions of thecamerapreview

[android-beginners] Re: Camera Preview Sizing

2009-02-03 Thread Dave Sparks
the Camera do it? Any help will be much appreciated. m. On Jan 25, 9:33 am, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.com wrote: The preview surface on the G1 can be any size within a factor of 2x (if I remember correctly) of the dimensions of thecamerapreview. By default thecamerapreview frame

[android-beginners] Re: Camera Preview Sizing

2009-02-03 Thread Dave Sparks
the Camera do it? Any help will be much appreciated. m. On Jan 25, 9:33 am, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.com wrote: The preview surface on the G1 can be any size within a factor of 2x (if I remember correctly) of the dimensions of thecamerapreview. By default thecamerapreview frame

[android-beginners] Re: Cannot connect to Google Maps since yesterday from ADP1

2009-01-31 Thread Dave Sparks
There was a problem that was fixed at 11:30AM PST Saturday. Let us know if you are still experiencing problems. On Jan 31, 6:41 am, Adrien Guichard guichard.adr...@gmail.com wrote: since yesterday, gmap refuse to function on my ADP1. Everything else seems to work ok. I do kill Maps process

[android-beginners] Re: startup sequence

2009-01-28 Thread Dave Sparks
This question is better suited to android-platform. This list is intended for application developers just getting started with Android. On Jan 28, 9:51 am, krish24 krish2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, Can anybody tell me the system startup sequence of Android? When the services are

[android-beginners] Re: Camera Preview Sizing

2009-01-25 Thread Dave Sparks
The preview surface on the G1 can be any size within a factor of 2x (if I remember correctly) of the dimensions of the camera preview. By default the camera preview frame is 480x320, so you should be able to get away with 240x160. In my test application, I created a subclass of SurfaceView

[android-beginners] Re: Geotagging in android

2009-01-24 Thread Dave Sparks
. Also can you provide me any example for EXIF Tags. I dint find anything about it on web. Thank you very much Regards Shobhit On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.comwrote: I'm probably not going to be much help with the database, though I think

[android-beginners] Re: Geotagging in android

2009-01-23 Thread Dave Sparks
Shobhit On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.comwrote: What exactly do you need help on? MapView mashups? On Jan 23, 2:41 pm, shobhit.kasli...@gmail.com shobhit.kasli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I wanna GeoTag photos and videos on Google Maps in Android. can anyone

[android-beginners] Re: Camera query

2009-01-21 Thread Dave Sparks
I'm not sure what you mean by android simulator. We have no plans to support using the host webcam as a camera input in the emulator. Might make a good open source project for someone. Just bear in mind that it really should work on all 3 host platforms (Linux, Mac, and Windows). On Jan 21,

[android-beginners] Re: Basic Thread Question

2009-01-20 Thread Dave Sparks
purpose. So, I guess my question is, what is a message looper and what relationship does it have with the handler argument? many thanks, On Jan 17, 8:09 pm, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.com wrote: This will put your app's message looper to sleep for 10 seconds, which is probably

[android-beginners] Re: Problem in playing a video file

2009-01-17 Thread Dave Sparks
to think for keeping his apk size to minimum. On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.comwrote: adb push /path/on/workstation/video.mp4 /sdcard In the code, use the SD card path for the setDataSource() call: mMediaPlayer.setDataSource(/sdcard/video.mp4); On Jan

[android-beginners] Re: Basic Thread Question

2009-01-17 Thread Dave Sparks
This will put your app's message looper to sleep for 10 seconds, which is probably not what you want. As an alternative, you can send yourself a delayed message, or you can have your animation thread read the system time when it starts up and exit after the 10 seconds has expired. On Jan 17,

[android-beginners] Re: Problem in playing a video file

2009-01-16 Thread Dave Sparks
Can you be a bit more explicit when you say nothing happens? Usually - no matter what kind of bug you might have - something happens, it's just not what you expected to happen. For example, do you have log output? My guess is that you cannot use an MP4 as a raw resource because it gets

[android-beginners] Re: Problem in playing a video file

2009-01-16 Thread Dave Sparks
it to the SD card and playing it from there.* Can you please show a way to push a mp4 or mp3 file in a sd card? On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Dave Sparks davidspa...@android.comwrote: Can you be a bit more explicit when you say nothing happens? Usually - no matter what kind of bug

[android-beginners] Re: DRM support on Android?

2009-01-15 Thread Dave Sparks
There is some support for forward-locked content. We aren't planning support for additional DRM in the media framework, however Packet Video has DRM components for license. On Jan 15, 2:34 am, fab fabianj...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi there, I'm trying to figure out if there is any DRM support

[android-beginners] Re: Create a video with Android

2009-01-14 Thread Dave Sparks
FYI, the current SDK does not have support for video recording. That is a feature in a future release called Cupcake that is currently under development in open source. On Jan 13, 11:24 pm, victor victor8...@gmail.com wrote: Refer to the class: MediaRecorder. For more information, search in

[android-beginners] Re: Calling media frame work library function in C/C++

2009-01-14 Thread Dave Sparks
You are still going to need Java to get application life cycle events, access to Window Manager, intents, etc. Your Java app may just be a wrapper for native code, but Android is fundamentally a Java platform. On Jan 13, 7:55 am, srini amul srinia...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi , My application is in

[android-beginners] Re: Why atomic access to functions like CameraService::Client::takePicture()?

2009-01-12 Thread Dave Sparks
If I recall correctly, the mutex protects the camera hardware context. A malevolent application could start a picture snap and disconnect the camera on another thread. Without the mutex to protect the camera context, it could cause the media server to crash. On Jan 9, 6:01 pm, Hank And

[android-beginners] Re: Audio Processing Options

2009-01-08 Thread Dave Sparks
No, there are no Java API's exposed for this currently. On Jan 8, 8:06 am, obi mark.cavolow...@gmail.com wrote: What options are there currently for analyzing sound files on Android, specifically ones from the onboard microphone? Ideally, I'd like to be able to look at the amplitude of the

[android-beginners] Re: MediaPlayer Volume Range

2009-01-07 Thread Dave Sparks
The range is 0 to 1. You can use any increment you want to create a logarithmic volume scale, just make full volume 1.0. Multiply be a scalar less than 1.0 to get the next lower volume. Multiply that volume by the same scalar to get the next one. Repeat until you have enough values. The number

[android-beginners] Re: Problem in Playing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Dave Sparks
Any error messages in the log? Are you getting an exception? On Jan 6, 4:42 am, Honest honestsucc...@gmail.com wrote: I am playing sound by putting one folder which contains sound file. The coding is as below to play file. mMediaPlayer = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.test_cbr);

[android-beginners] Re: Problem in Playing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Dave Sparks
Any error messages in the log? Are you getting an exception? On Jan 6, 4:42 am, Honest honestsucc...@gmail.com wrote: I am playing sound by putting one folder which contains sound file. The coding is as below to play file. mMediaPlayer = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.test_cbr);

[android-beginners] Re: Adding Custom Hardware?

2008-12-30 Thread Dave Sparks
This is probably more appropriate in the android-porting list. This list is for application developers who are just getting started on Android development. On Dec 30, 10:52 am, Chris H. feeltha...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am using the Logic PD OMAP3430 development platform, with the

[android-beginners] Re: How to I get video to play from storage?

2008-12-18 Thread Dave Sparks
It seems like you're trying to play the file from your workstation. I assume you are testing in the emulator. If so, you need to be aware that the emulator has its own file system and it cannot directly access your workstation files. Instead, it mounts a file that contains an image of a FAT file

[android-beginners] Re: I want to take a look at source of Dialer, Contacts, etc

2008-12-18 Thread Dave Sparks
You'll find the source here: http://android.git.kernel.org/ For example, here's a pointer to the source tree for Contacts: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Contacts.git;a=summary On Dec 16, 8:48 pm, Shawn_Chiu qiuping...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all I want to take a look