landscape support of video using video view in android

Question

i am not able to change the orientation of my video in landscape mode. Here's my code:

VideoView videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.video_view);
    MediaController mediaController = new MediaController(this); //Creating the media controller
    mediaController.setAnchorView(videoView);

    //Specify the location of media file
    Uri uri = Uri.parse("android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/"
            + R.raw.my_video);

    videoView.setMediaController(mediaController);
    videoView.setVideoURI(uri);
    videoView.requestFocus();
    videoView.start();

    videoView.setOnCompletionListener(this);

and in manifest i have added below lines:

android:configChanges="keyboard|orientation|screenSize"
        android:screenOrientation="landscape"

and with this it's not working. Thanks in advance!! :)

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 26 '14 at 07:01

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I solved this problem by adding below line of code in onStart of the activity:

@Override
protected void onStart() {
    super.onStart();
    setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);
}

answered Dec 26 '14 at 07:01

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 26 '14 at 06:52

This is what I did to force scaling the video to landscape, hope it help.

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <VideoView
        android:id="@+id/video_view"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"/>

</RelativeLayout>

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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Changing orientation of your video view can be done by changing the orientation of you screen.

Use this to change the orientation of you device dynamically on a button press etc.

You can define a new layout-landscape in the way you want. So basically whenever you press the button, the orientation of the device changes and so changes the videoview orientation too.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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answered Dec 26 '14 at 06:37

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landscape support of video using video view in android

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