Why does VideoView in android take too long to download and play video from an http link?

Question

Below is my code:

package com.example.videoplayer; import android.app.Activity; import android.app.ProgressDialog; import android.media.MediaPlayer; import android.os.Bundle; import android.util.Log; import android.view.Menu; import android.widget.MediaController; import android.widget.VideoView; public class VideoPlayerActivity extends Activity { String TAG = "com.example.VideoPlayer"; ProgressDialog progDailog; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_video_player); final VideoView videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.videoView1); videoView.setVideoPath("http://www.ebookfrenzy.com/android_book/movie.mp4"); MediaController mediaController = new MediaController(this); mediaController.setAnchorView(videoView); videoView.setMediaController(mediaController); videoView.setOnPreparedListener(new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() { @Override public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) { progDailog.dismiss(); Log.i(TAG, "Duration = " + videoView.getDuration()); } }); videoView.start(); progDailog = ProgressDialog.show(this, "Please wait ...", "Retrieving data ...", `enter code here`true); } @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present. getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.video_player, menu); return true; } } 

Answer 1

Check this:

Play http video in VideoView

This is my code:

 public static void getVideoFromHttp(String urlPath) { try { // Start the MediaController MediaController mediacontroller = new MediaController(mContext); mediacontroller.setAnchorView(mVideoview); // Get the URL from String VideoURL Uri mVideo = Uri.parse(urlPath); mVideoview.setMediaController(mediacontroller); mVideoview.setVideoURI(mVideo); } catch (Exception e) { Log.e("Error", e.getMessage()); e.printStackTrace(); } mVideoview.requestFocus(); mVideoview.setOnPreparedListener(new OnPreparedListener() { // Close the progress bar and play the video public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) { mVideoview.start(); } }); mVideoview.setOnCompletionListener(new OnCompletionListener() { public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) { } }); } 

thanks

Answer 2

Do not do everything in the user interface thread, because it takes a lot of time. Do everything in AsyncTask and everything will be fine.

For beginners, this link describes how you could do this in AsyncTask .

Define a class that extends AsyncTask :

 public class BackgroundAsyncTask extends AsyncTask<String, Uri, Void> { Integer track = 0; ProgressDialog dialog; protected void onPreExecute() { dialog = new ProgressDialog(PlayVideo.this); dialog.setMessage("Loading, Please Wait..."); dialog.setCancelable(true); dialog.show(); } protected void onProgressUpdate(final Uri... uri) { try { media=new MediaController(PlayVideo.this); video.setMediaController(media); media.setPrevNextListeners(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { // next button clicked } }, new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { finish(); } }); media.show(10000); video.setVideoURI(uri[0]); video.requestFocus(); video.setOnPreparedListener(new OnPreparedListener() { public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer arg0) { video.start(); dialog.dismiss(); } }); } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IllegalStateException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (SecurityException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } } @Override protected Void doInBackground(String... params) { try { Uri uri = Uri.parse(params[0]); publishProgress(uri); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return null; } } 

Then, in the onCreate() method, just call the execute() method of this BackgroundAsynchTask :

 video = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.video); new BackgroundAsyncTask().execute("link-to-the-video");