binding video events

[jake3030]

Hi Simon,

How do you bind to events from the media player? If I wanted to find out when the video was finished or started or in the middle of playback, how would I capture those events?

In the logcat i can see that those events are there, but I'm having some trouble intercepting them.

Thanks

Jake

[macdonst]

I didn't build in any support for it. The way the plugin works is by starting a new intent so in actual fact you are in a separate app playing the video. Not quite sure how one would capture these events without pulling the video player into the current app and that'd be a bit of a pain to have to re-write the video player component that the OS provides.

[jake3030]

ya, i am trying to do that now and it's not going so well.

here is what i am trying right now:

private void playVideo2(String url) throws IOException {
        // Create URI
        // Create a new media player and set the listeners
        DroidGap currentCtx = (DroidGap) this.cordova.getContext();
        VideoView vd = currentCtx.getVideoView();
        Uri uri = Uri.parse(url);
        MediaController mc = new MediaController(this.cordova.getActivity());
        vd.setMediaController(mc);
        vd.setVideoURI(uri);
        vd.start();
    }

VideoView needs to access R and I wasnt able to access that through the plugin so I am trying to go through the app class. I know it's seriously bad programming, but I just want to get the events to work for this app. Im not planning to release this back unless I can clean it up. Do you know of a way to access the R variable inside of a plugin?

--jake

[macdonst]

The problem with trying to access R is that R is from a different package in each application. What do you need R for?

[jake3030]

the videoview needs it according to the examples i am finding.

I had another idea. Could we use Broadcastreceiver to intercept the mediaplayer events from the intent?

--jake