How to remove the black screen that apper before playing the mp4 Video?

Question

I am playing the MP4 in android phone with the below code:

VideoView videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.VideoView);
        //  Set video link (mp4 format )
        File file2 = new File("/sdcard/Alone.mp4");
        Uri video = Uri.fromFile(file2);

        videoView.setVideoURI(video);
        videoView.start();

But while i playing this video, before starting of that video i seen one black screen for 0.2 or 0.3 second.

I dont want that black screen to appear.

So for that what should i have to do ? I want is, while i play the video, there should be only screen of the video, no any other black screen should be there before playing it ?

Thanks.

Leucoplast

Possible duplicate of android-black screen on displaying video by using VideoView – Len

Answer 1

My solution to this problem was this line:

videoView.setZOrderOnTop(true);

This changes the black screen with a momentary transparent video. You can easily fix this other issue by setting an ImageView with the first video frame behind the VideoView.

Denny

In my case, this property doesn't even display the video. I have to use setZOrderMediaOverlay, which overrides any previous call to setZOrderOnTop. If i use only setZOrderOnTop then the video doesn't show up, you only hear the audio, but it also prevents the black screen from appearing – Alvinalvina

@Denny hey, just wanted to say thank you for your answer, I've been searching it for so long, and the only some what solution most people said was to take a photo over the video, but yours works great, thank you, up voted! – Yetah