MediaPlayer skips forward about 6 seconds on rotation

Question

I have a MediaPlayer in a Fragment which retains its instance on configuration changes. The player is playing a video loaded from my assets directory. I have the scenario

Answer 1

Thanks to natez0r's answer, I have managed to get the setup described working. However, I use a slightly different method. I'll detail it here for reference.

I have one Fragment which I flag to be retained on configuration changes. This fragment handles both the media playback (MediaPlayer), and the standard TextureView (which provides the SurfaceTexture where the video buffer gets dumped). I initialize the media playback only once my Activity has finished onResume() and once the SurfaceTexture is available. Instead of subclassing TextureView, I simply call setSurfaceTexture (since it's public) in my fragment once I receive a reference to the SurfaceTexture. The only two things retained when a configuration change happens are the MediaPlayer reference, and the SurfaceTexture reference.

I've uploaded the source of my sample project to Github. Feel free to take a look!