MediaController Positioning

Question

I am using VideoView to show play a local mp4 and i am using MediaController as well. The media control bar is not displaying under my video clip but in the middle of the screen. I used setAnchorView to attach it to my videoView but that had no affect. How do i position my mediacontroller to be directly under my videoview?

public class VideoDemo extends Activity {
private VideoView video;
private MediaController ctlr;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
    super.onCreate(icicle);
    getWindow().setFormat(PixelFormat.TRANSLUCENT);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    File clip=new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(),
                                         "test.mp4");

    if (clip.exists()) {
        video=(VideoView)findViewById(R.id.video);
        video.setVideoPath(clip.getAbsolutePath());

        ctlr=new MediaController(this, false);
        ctlr.setAnchorView(video);
        ctlr.setMediaPlayer(video);
        video.setMediaController(ctlr);
        video.requestFocus();
    }
}
}

and my layout is

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:layout_width="400dp"
    android:layout_height="400dp"
    android:background="#fff"
    >
<VideoView 
     android:id="@+id/video" 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"/>
</LinearLayout>

Duck

Did you ever figure this out? I am creating a tablet application and am wanting to do the exact same thing. No problem playing the video, I just want the controls to show over the videoview. – Coffeepot

Same issue for tablet here. :( Anybody found a solution yet? – Yield

Answer 1

To get a tablet app to display the media controller at full screen size instead of in the middle, you need to put a uses-sdk line in your AndroidManifest.xml and target an sdk version that is aware of the existence of higher resolution devices - otherwise a lot of views are limited to 480x320

Edit: I'd previously posted of having some problems with adding the uses-sdk resulting in the rewind/pause/forward showing without a progress slider underneath, but turns out that on a particular tablet adapted to android the soft home/menu/etc buttons bar was simply covering the lower half of the media controller.

Entrench

Answer 2

Try:

ctrl.setPadding(x, y, z, w)

Cousins

Answer 3

Can you try this:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="400dp"
    android:layout_height="400dp"
    android:background="#fff"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <VideoView
        android:id="@+id/video"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="1" />

</LinearLayout>

Then add the MediaController using as Layout Params

• layout_width: fill_parent
• layout_height: wrap_content
• layout_weight: 0

Hope this helps!

Lennon

Answer 4

i have a solution for this, add a vertical layout then put the videoview in that layout, the media controller will appear at the bottom of the layout where thw video is displayed.

Frodin