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

Just show a frame from the video as preview.

vSurface.SeekTo(100);

Answer 2

Use svVideoView.seekTo(position).

Give Position within 5 (ms).

onPause():
position=svVideoView.getCurrentPosition()

onResume():
svVideoView.seekTo(position);

Answer 3

see this

VideoView videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.VideoView);
        MediaController mediaController = new MediaController(this);
        mediaController.setAnchorView(videoView);
        Uri video = Uri.parse("android.resource://your_package_name/"+R.raw.monkeysonthebed_video);

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

Answer 4

Just use VideoView#setBackgroundDrawable(), I think.

1. initial settings.

   VideoView.setBackgroundDrawable(yourdrawableid);
   

2. start video

   VideoView.start();
   VideoView.setBackgroundDrawable(0);
   

Answer 5

It works for me on both Activity and Fragment.

VideoView mVideo = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.yourViewViewId);
          mVideo.setVideoURI(mUri);
          mVideo.setZOrderOnTop(false);

SurfaceHolder surfaceholder = mVideo.getHolder();
surfaceholder.setFormat(PixelFormat.TRANSPARENT);

Answer 6

I had the same problem on Galaxy tab 2, Android 4.1.1.

Do videoView.setZOrderOnTop(true); and next videoView.start()

It works fine for me.