Android - Buffering Lag with VideoView

Question

I am using VideoView to display a video in my app. The problem is that, once the layout gets created there is lag of almost 10-30 seconds before which the video starts to play. I can see in LogCat that the video is buffering during the lag.

Is there a way I can minimize this lag, or tell MediaPlayer to play the video sooner?

Thanks Chris

Answer 1

if you are using RTSP Streaming, buffering is the reason of what you have more seamless playback. if you are playing an Audio/Video file reduce the bit rate encoding of your files.