VLC-based video player

I've been researching the video playback function recently. I used VideoView before. I looked it up online and it didn't seem very good. It supported relatively few formats. Nowadays, there are various formats of online videos. I felt that using VideoView to play them was very limited.

We found a suitable player, the Github address is https://github.com/xiaomo/AndroidPlayerLibrary. This player is based on the vlc software. After importing our demo into Eclipse, we can find a libvlc folder.

In the Media class, we can find that there are quite a lot of supported formats.

 String[] video_extensions = {
 ".3g2" , ".3gp" , ".3gp2" , ".3gpp" , ".amv" , ".asf" , ".avi" , ".divx" , ".drc" , ".dv" ,
 ".f4v" , ".flv" , ".gvi" , ".gxf" , ".ismv" , ".iso" , ".m1v" , ".m2v" , ".m2t" , ".m2ts" ,
 ".m4v" , ".mkv" , ".mov" , ".mp2" , ".mp2v" , ".mp4" , ".mp4v" , ".mpe" , ".mpeg" ,
 ".mpeg1" , ".mpeg2" , ".mpeg4" , ".mpg" , ".mpv2" , ".mts" , ".mtv" , ".mxf" , ".mxg" ,
 ".nsv" , ".nut" , ".nuv" , ".ogm" , ".ogv" , ".ogx" , ".ps" , ".rec" , ".rm" , ".rmvb" ,
 ".tod" , ".ts" , ".tts" , ".vob" , ".vro" , ".webm" , ".wm" , ".wmv" , ".wtv" , ".xesc" }; 
 
 String[] audio_extensions = {
 ".3ga" , ".a52" , ".aac" , ".ac3" , ".adt" , ".adts" , ".aif" , ".aifc" , ".aiff" , ".amr" ,
 ".aob" , ".ape" , ".awb" , ".caf" , ".dts" , ".flac" , ".it" , ".m4a" , ".m4b" , ".m4p" ,
 ".mid" , ".mka" , ".mlp" , ".mod" , ".mpa" , ".mp1" , ".mp2" , ".mp3" , ".mpc" , ".mpga" ,
 ".oga" , ".ogg" , ".oma" , ".opus" , ".ra" , ".ram" , ".rmi" , ".s3m" , ".spx" , ".tta" ,
 ".voc" , ".vqf" , ".w64" , ".wav" , ".wma" , ".wv" , ".xa" , ".xm" };

In this example, it writes a PlayerActivity and PlayerView by itself, and implements the IVideoPlayer interface in libvlc in PlayerView

Implement the PlayerView class in PlayerActivity to control the interface and process.

 protected   void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
 super .onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        mUrl = getIntent().getStringExtra( "url" );
 if (TextUtils.isEmpty(mUrl)) {
            Toast.makeText( this , "error:no url in intent!" , Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
 return ;
 }
        requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
        getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN); 
 
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_player); 
 
        mHandler = new Handler( this ); 
 
        tvTitle = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tv_title);
        tvTime = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tv_time);
        tvLength = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tv_length);
        sbVideo = (SeekBar) findViewById(R.id.sb_video);
        sbVideo.setOnSeekBarChangeListener( this );
        ibLock = (ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.ib_lock);
        ibLock.setOnClickListener( this );
        ibBackward = (ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.ib_backward);
        ibBackward.setOnClickListener( this );
        ibPlay = (ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.ib_play);
        ibPlay.setOnClickListener( this );
        ibFarward = (ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.ib_forward);
        ibFarward.setOnClickListener( this );
        ibSize = (ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.ib_size);
        ibSize.setOnClickListener( this ); 
 
        llOverlay = findViewById(R.id.ll_overlay);
        rlOverlayTitle = findViewById(R.id.rl_title); 
 
        rlLoading = findViewById(R.id.rl_loading);
        tvBuffer = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tv_buffer);
 //Usage steps  
 //***Step: Get the mPlayerView object through findViewById or new PlayerView()  
 //mPlayerView= new PlayerView(PlayerActivity.this);  
        mPlayerView = (PlayerView) findViewById(R.id.pv_video); 
 
 //Step 2: Set parameters in milliseconds  
        mPlayerView.setNetWorkCache( 20000 ); 
 
 //Step 3: Initialize the player  
        mPlayerView.initPlayer(mUrl); 
 
 //Step 4: Set up event monitoring, monitor buffer progress, etc.  
        mPlayerView.setOnChangeListener( this ); 
 
 //Step 5: Start playing  
 mPlayerView.start(); 
 
 //init view  
        tvTitle.setText(mUrl);
 showLoading();
 hideOverlay(); 
 
 }

How to use this library

The library can be used in two ways:

*** Type, directly create a new PlayerView or embed the view in the xml of the layout file.

The second method is to jump to a pre-written playback page PlayerActivity (local file parameter format: file:///sacard/test.rmvb.)

Here I chose the second method

 startActivity( new Intent( this , PlayerActivity. class ).putExtra( "url" , items.get(position)));

 Through a selection list, click each item and pass a URL to PlayerActivity

Select 1.2JDK download.mp4 from the list

There is no problem switching between horizontal and vertical screens.