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POVideo - Use VideoView/MediaPlayer, or intent.action_view and user's choice?
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copied!<p>Forgive me if this is a newbie question, but...</p> <p>When playing video, is it better to use VideoView/MediaPlayer, or is it better to use intent.ACTION_VIEW and let the user select his/her media player?</p> <p>The videos that I need to play are very large mp4 files (20 meg - 50+ meg) which are not optimized for mobile. I have buffering issues when using VideoView/MediaPlayer. However, when I use intent.ACTION_VIEW, I can use something like RealPlayer, which does a better job of buffering (at least in my case). Plus, RealPlayer and the other players I've tried handle orientation changes without restarting the video like VideoView/MediaPlayer do. However, I don't know if this second approach is "acceptable" from a user-experience perspective.</p> <p>Here's the code for my VideoView/MediaPlayer approach:</p> <p>XML:</p> <pre><code><VideoView android:id="@+id/videoView" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" /> </code></pre> <p>Java:</p> <pre><code>public class VideoViewActivity extends Activity { @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); VideoView videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.videoView); MediaController mediaController = new MediaController(this); mediaController.setAnchorView(videoView); Uri video = Uri.parse("http://www.my.big.video.com/video.mp4"); videoView.setMediaController(mediaController); videoView.setVideoURI(video); videoView.start(); } </code></pre> <p>And here's the code for my second approach:</p> <p>Java:</p> <pre><code>public class VideoViewActivity extends Activity { @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); String videoUrl = "http://www.my.big.video.com/video.mp4"; Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); i.setData(Uri.parse(videoUrl)); startActivity(i); } </code></pre> <p>Suggestions?</p>

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