Videoview Pausing and resuming

Question

I am new to android development and I am programming a game. My game has cutsceens that play before each level starts, cutsceens which are done through videoview. My problem

Answer 1

In OnPause you can get the current position .

length=mVideoView.getCurrentPosition();

and length value use in OnResume ().

mVideoView.seekTo(length);
mVideoView.start()

working fine .

Answer 2

Just use onSaveInstanseState method instead of onPause and use onRestart instead of onResume. It will definitely work. Cheers !

Answer 3

    int stopPosition;   // Globally declare class level...
    @Override
    public void onPause() {
        super.onPause();  
        onPauseVideoView();
    }

    @Override
    public void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
        Log.e("WatchVideoAd Fragment", "onPause called");

        onResumeVideoView();
    }

    private void onPauseVideoView() {
        stopPosition = videoview.getCurrentPosition(); //stopPosition is an int
        videoview.pause();
    }

    private void onResumeVideoView() {
        videoview.seekTo(stopPosition);
        videoview.start(); //Or use resume() if it doesn't work. I'm not sure
    }

onHiddenChanged in case of Fragment

  @Override
    public void onHiddenChanged(boolean hidden) {
        super.onHiddenChanged(hidden);
        if (!hidden) {
            if (getActivity() != null) {
                ((AppActivity) getActivity()).updateTitle(getResources().getString(R.string.title_game));
            }
            Log.e("keshav", "WatchVideoAd Fragment  ");
            onResumeVideoView();

        } else {

            Log.e("keshav", "WatchVideoAd Fragment else ");
            onPauseVideoView();
        }
    }

Answer 4

You can use this

@Override
public void onPause() {
    Log.d(TAG, "onPause called");
    super.onPause();
    stopPosition = videoView.getCurrentPosition(); //stopPosition is an int
    videoView.pause();
}
@Override
public void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    Log.d(TAG, "onResume called");
    videoView.seekTo(stopPosition);
    videoView.start(); //Or use resume() if it doesn't work. I'm not sure
}

original post

Answer 5

Instead of resume(), use start() again.
It will start the playback from the point where you paused the video.

Answer 6

Shouldn't use video.pause(), video.resume(), because when you call it, the buffering data will be lost. That is also the reason WHY VideoView play at BEGINNING whenever you call video.resume(). See it: VideoView onResume loses buffered portion of the video

Solution:

VideoView videoView;
MediaPlayer mp;

videoView.setOnPreparedListener(new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() {
            @Override
            public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
                this.mp = mp;
            }
        });

public void pause(){
    //NOT videoview.pause(); Needn't save Stop position
    if (mp != null){
       mp.pause();
    }
}

public void resume(){
    //NOT videoview.resume();
    if (mp != null){
       mp.start(); //Video will begin where it stopped
    }   
}