Only loading video into VideoView without instantly playing

Question

I got a question is it possible in Android to load the video data into a VideoView without it instantly starting to play? If so, how could I do that?

Answer 1

I was also thinking about showing a thunbnail as sghael stated. But I think this might result in reduced performance.

So what I'm doing now is just call

videoView.seekTo(1);

to forward the video to the first millisecond. This works fine for me and is fast to implement.