Android. How play video on Surface(OpenGL)

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1. How play video on Surface(OpenGL) in Android? I tried playing video in mySurfaceView extends SurfaceView with help m

Answer 1

I guess you can't. At least that's what i found out. My plan was to have some sort of OpenGL scene (text ticker) while playing a video. Since android uses HW decoding for displaying a video, it will not be done with OpenGL. I also tried to play the video in OpenGL using ffmpeg but i found out, that no device i tried with, was performant enough to do SW decoding via ffmpeg.

So I had to use a VideoView to display my video and put a GLSurfaceView on top of it, to view my ticker text. But you have to make the GLSurfaceView translucent like in ApiDemos done with 'TranslucentGLSurfaceViewActivity'.

Another thing i realized: If you put a GLSurfaceView on top of a VideoView your fps breaks down dramatically from 60fps (opengl) to about 30-40fps. This applied to all 2.x versions of android i tested. Last week i had the chance to test it on Android 4 and this time i got no break down in fps. Maybe they really improved graphics pipeline for ICS.

Greetings, -chris-