playing video on top of OpenGL view in android

Question

I'm developing a game using cocos2d-x and I want to play video in it. The activity has one OpenGL view and I also put additional VideoView on top of it and set visibility to INVISIBLE.

When I need to play video, I just hide OpenGL view and enable my VideoView. After that I create MediaPlayer, call setDisplay with holder of that VideoView, etc. and eventually video plays well. When video finishes, I switch visibilities back again - opengl to VISIBLE and videoview to INVISIBLE.

However, the problem is that when I try to play video second time, it just doesn't show up, however, sound from the video is being played.

Is there any catch with visibilities?

Answer 1

I just modified the ApiDemo to see whether it works. I have blog the full code here : post without using separate media player for video view we can set the video and play

   mVideoView.setVideoURI(data.getData());
   mVideoView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
   mVideoView.start();

   //I could add touch listener in onCreate
    mGLSurfaceView.setOnTouchListener(...);

//touch event will go all the way down to GLSurfaceView
//Here i could chnage the video view position
@Override
public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent motionEvent) {
    mVideoView.setTranslationX(motionEvent.getX());
    mVideoView.setTranslationY(motionEvent.getY());
    return true;
}

Answer 2

You will need a surfaceview to play video at using android MediaPlayer class.

To play video above GLSurfaceView, create an android Custom Dialog which contains a surfaceView and play video on that.