Seamless video Loop with VideoView

Question

I have the following code to take a video as a raw resource, start the video and loop it but I need the video to loop seamlessly as of now when it comes to an end of the clip an

Answer 1

The pause is for the underlying MediaPlayer to refresh its buffers. How long that will take will depend on a number of factors, many of which are outside your control (e.g., speed of CPU, speed of on-board flash storage).

One you can control is to get your video out of the resource and into the filesystem. Resources are stored in the APK, which is a ZIP file, so extracting the video this way probably takes extra time.

You may need to switch away from VideoView and use a SurfaceView with two MediaPlayers, alternating between them -- one is playing while the next is preparing, so when the playing one ends you can switch to the new player. I have not tried this, and so I do not know what the ramifications might be. However, I know that this technique is frequently used for audio playback to transition from one clip to another.

Answer 2

Not sure if this helps years later, but I used

vv.start();
vv.setOnCompletionListener ( new MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener() {

 @Override 
  public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mediaPlayer) {   
    vv.start();
  }
});

and it has a seamless loop

Answer 3

Little late, but any reason that you can't use the following?

MediaPlayer.setLooping(true);

Answer 4

Answer to this is to remove the audio from the video and convert that to a .ogg file which can be looped seamlessly and then use the video without audio to loop round and this works.

Answer 5

Try this it will work 100%

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VideoView videoView;<---write this in outside of method or else declare it as final variable.

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

Answer 6

If you are using Kotlin

 videoView.setOnPreparedListener(object : MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener {
                override fun onPrepared(mp: MediaPlayer?) {
                    //Start Playback
                    videoView.start()
                    //Loop Video
                    mp!!.isLooping = true;
                    Log.i(TAG, "Video Started");
                }
            });

Using Arrow Expression short form

videoView.setOnPreparedListener { mp ->
            //Start Playback
            videoView.start()
            //Loop Video
            mp!!.isLooping = true;
            Log.i(TAG, "Video Started");
        };