Re: [android-developers] Re: Backporting stagefright and NuPlayer to Android 2.2?

2012-04-27 Thread Dianne Hackborn
The media framework uses various private APIs, has components that talk directly to hardware (DSPs for encoding/decoding, etc), etc. This doesn't seem to me like a good idea. And not for perspective -- you would not end up with two instances of media service always running, because you are

[android-developers] Re: Backporting stagefright and NuPlayer to Android 2.2?

2012-04-26 Thread b0b
I wouldn't care about Android 2.2 at this point, as the MediaPlayer is really incomplete and buggy in this version and lower. It is a lot better in 2.3.x and above. Most third party video players use ffmpeg as the media framework. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[android-developers] Re: Backporting stagefright and NuPlayer to Android 2.2?

2012-04-26 Thread Kiran Rao
Thanks for the response b0b. I realize MediaPlayer will not do the job for me - at least in 2.2. But, is there any framework-level requirement that is stopping me from building the newer media framework source and deploying it on 2.2? Perhaps this would make my app prohibitively large? Or