Playing video on TextureView

Question

In the documentation of Android TextureView it says that you can use a TextureView to play video: But I cant seem to find any example of how to do this. Does anyone know?

I need to use a textureView because I want to animate the video. I want to play a video in .3gp/.mp4 format, not video from the Camera :)

Any help would be appreciated..

UPDATE:

Solution is posted as a community wiki answer

Would you have any idea why onSurfaceTextureAvailable never called? — George Taskos, Dec 10 '12 at 22:26
Also. you can always check http://www.netmite.com/android/mydroid/frameworks/base/core/java/android/widget/VideoView.java for how Google did the regular VideoView. — Edison, Apr 17 '13 at 18:45
@Edison and if you actually looked at the source you would see they use a SurfaceView, not a TextureView. Question asks for TextureView. — dcow, Oct 01 '13 at 19:45
@David, you can simply switch out the callbacks. Vine on Android right now uses the VideoView that inherits from TextureView. (I may open source it at one point soon) — Edison, Oct 01 '13 at 20:48
@Edison provided you know to make a new Surface over the TextureView -- which the VideoView doesn't show how to do. — dcow, Oct 01 '13 at 22:20
@Edison I trying play auto video in list view like vine. I created a custom texture view, which is working fine if i use it as a single view in an activity. However if i use it as an item view in list view - SurfaceTextureListener never gets called and surface texture is always null. Therefore no video are played. Can you shed some light, on how can i fix this. https://raw.github.com/ash-gupta/MyTestVideoView/master/MyTestVideoView — aNoviceGuy, Oct 09 '13 at 02:54
@aNoviceGuy is the view visible? Your view looks fine (though I did not test it). Auto play just need you to do start in onPrepared. — Edison, Oct 09 '13 at 16:01
@Edison - Like i said - it works when i use it as a single view in an activity. But When i am using it in a list item - it is not showing anything.I set the listview item background to white , and that is what comes up, items with with white color only, no video or image. I checked that my view is visible but still nothing shows up :( Mediaplayer on prepare is calling start. In my adapter get view - i am just doing holder.videoView.setVideoPath("any mp4 url"); holder.videoView.start(); — aNoviceGuy, Oct 09 '13 at 23:18
@Zelleriation you should post your solution as an answer. It worked well for me. — Jens Zalzala, Oct 10 '13 at 22:13

score 55 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 04 '20 at 08:17

Here is how you can do it: (solution by the question author, that he posted as an update in the question)

Public class MediaPlayerDemo_Video extends Activity implements TextureView.SurfaceTextureListener {


 private MediaPlayer mMediaPlayer;

 private TextureView mPreview;

 @Override
 public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {

      super.onCreate(icicle);

      mPreview = new TextureView(this);
      mPreview.setLayoutParams(new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT));
      mPreview.setSurfaceTextureListener(this);

      extras = getIntent().getExtras();

      setContentView(mPreview);
 }

 @Override
 public void onSurfaceTextureAvailable(SurfaceTexture surface, int width, int height) {
 Surface s = new Surface(surface);

 try {
       mMediaPlayer= new MediaPlayer();
       mMediaPlayer.setDataSource("http://daily3gp.com/vids/747.3gp");
       mMediaPlayer.setSurface(s);
       mMediaPlayer.prepare();
       mMediaPlayer.setOnBufferingUpdateListener(this);
       mMediaPlayer.setOnCompletionListener(this);
       mMediaPlayer.setOnPreparedListener(this);
       mMediaPlayer.setOnVideoSizeChangedListener(this);
       mMediaPlayer.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
       mMediaPlayer.start();
      } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (SecurityException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IllegalStateException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }   
}

And animating it works really well.

Using TextureView instead of SurfaceView solved flickering problem on video playback. Thanks! — support_ms, Nov 30 '15 at 06:58
Excellent, small point, the @Override property is missing from the onSurfuceTextureAvailable function — Jonathan Dunn, Apr 11 '18 at 12:08
Thanks @JonDunn. Please note that the `@Override` annotation is not required. Nonetheless It helps to prevent errors since If a method marked with @Override fails to correctly override a method in one of its superclasses, the compiler generates an error, that is why it is a good style practice. I will edit the post — Carlos Robles, Apr 11 '18 at 17:21
Implement these if requires MediaPlayer.OnVideoSizeChangedListener, MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener, MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener, MediaPlayer.OnBufferingUpdateListener — Shaktisinh Jadeja, Nov 30 '18 at 10:34

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 19 '16 at 11:58

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I had the same problem, and solved it with a TextureView. I found setScaleX and setScaleY very useful, if this helps anyone. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#setScaleX%28float%29

However if you are only targeting API 16+:

mediaPlayer.setVideoScalingMode(MediaPlayer.VIDEO_SCALING_MODE_SCALE_TO_FIT_WITH_CROPPING);

should do it:)

edited Jul 19 '16 at 11:58

Aditya Vyas-Lakhan

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answered Nov 27 '13 at 10:27

Maximosaic

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you are really lazy to help – Rafael Lima May 28 '18 at 22:58

score -2 · Answer 3 · answered May 16 '13 at 12:12

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Your setContentView(mPreview); needs to be called before the

mPreview = (TextureView) findViewById(R.id.surface);
mPreview.setSurfaceTextureListener(this);

answered May 16 '13 at 12:12

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here you answer the question not to correct the answer.. use comment for correcting the it. – MBH Mar 22 '16 at 13:14

Playing video on TextureView

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