VideoView problem in 2.1 Emulator of Android?

Question

Hi,

I am using the code available here VideoView Example. This code runs properly on Android emulator 1.6 but not on 2.1.

In 2.1 it only plays the audio and not video. I have gone through several other threads where this issue has been mentioned. I will like to know whether this problem is limited to emulator only or the devices also have the same problem.

Regards

Sunil

Answer 1

Emulators will have great difficulty playing back video, due to speed. The emulator does not have hardware acceleration -- combine that with converting ARM opcodes to x86 on the fly, and the emulator cannot keep up. I have a quad-core 2.6GHz desktop, and I can only occasionally get the emulator to play back video.

IMHO, to work with video, you need a device.