Android VideoView black screen

Question

I have been looking for a way to get rid of the nasty black initial screen on a VideoView before the start() method is run.

I have tried with background image on the

Answer 1

Modifying @emmgfx's answer worked for me:

videoView.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE)
videoView.start()
Timer().schedule(100){
  videoView?.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT)
}

Trick is to delay the video view untill video loads. PS : It's kotlin.

Answer 2

I 've got same problem I just used videov.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE) and then onprepare i used Color.TRANSPARENT) white is still better than black for me

Answer 3

I had the same issue. I found that the main reason for that was the use of FrameLayout as the parent layout. Use RelativeLayout as the parent layout of the VideoView

Answer 4

I meet the same problem, and solve it with the accepted solution above plus this:

  @Override
  public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
    mp.setOnInfoListener(new MediaPlayer.OnInfoListener() {
      @Override
      public boolean onInfo(MediaPlayer mp, int what, int extra) {
        Log.d(TAG, "onInfo, what = " + what);
        if (what == MediaPlayer.MEDIA_INFO_VIDEO_RENDERING_START) {
          // video started; hide the placeholder.
          placeholder.setVisibility(View.GONE);
          return true;
        }
        return false;
      }
    });

I think onPrepared just means the video is ready to play, but not means video started playing. If hide placeholder in onPrepared, the screen still show a black screen.

On my Note3 and Nexus, this solution works well.

Answer 5

This worked for me:

videoView.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE); // Your color.
videoView.start();
videoView.setOnPreparedListener(new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() {
    @Override
    public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
        videoView.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
    }
});

At least two years later, but I hope that was helpful.

Answer 6

To avoid annoying flickering and black screen issues I wrote FrameVideoView.

It takes benefits from 'placeholder solution' and (if your device is running API level 14 or higher) from TextureView, which is much more efficient than VideoView.

I wrote article on our blog to cover what it actually does.

It's simple to use:

Add FrameVideoView to layout:

<mateuszklimek.framevideoview.FrameVideoView
    android:id="@+id/frame_video_view"
    android:layout_width="@dimen/video_width"
    android:layout_height="@dimen/video_height"
  />

find its instance in Activity and call corresponding methods in onResume and onPause:

public class SampleActivity extends Activity {

  private FrameVideoView videoView;

  @Override
  protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.simple);

    String uriString = "android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.movie;
    videoView = (FrameVideoView) findViewById(R.id.frame_video_view);
    videoView.setup(Uri.parse(uriString), Color.GREEN);
  }

    @Override
    protected void onResume() {
      super.onResume();
      videoView.onResume();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPause() {
      videoView.onPause();
      super.onPause();
    }
  }