Rotating EMVideoView

[notsatyarth]

Is there any way that i can rotate the video view without sufferring from state loss?
I've tried using setRotation and also from xml.
I am show an EMVideoView in a dialog fragment and would like to rotate that by 90 degrees. However I just get a transparent background instead of a video then.
Is there a correct way to rotate ? Is rotation possible?

[brianwernick]

The current demo app correctly handles device rotation when playing a video. Your problem sounds like an issues with the dialog fragment. Possibly related to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14657490/how-to-properly-retain-a-dialogfragment-through-rotation

[notsatyarth]

Sorry I was not clear enough.I have a portrait activity where I have am trying to open a Dialog fragment where by rotating the EMVideView by 90,i plan to make it look like landscape.Is that possible?

[brianwernick]

Not currently (and I don't plan on adding it in the future since it is a very small edge case). You might be able to do something similar to what is described in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8586526/rotating-an-android-videoview

[notsatyarth]

Can i get a reference to the VideoView used here?

[brianwernick]

Sorry, I'm not sure what you are asking?

[notsatyarth]

in EMVideoView can i get a reference to the underlying view to rotate it.Or is it not possible with EMVideoView?

[brianwernick]

Oh, you would probably need to modify the exoVideoSurfaceView (https://github.com/brianwernick/ExoMedia/blob/master/library/src/main/java/com/devbrackets/android/exomedia/EMVideoView.java#L239). However, this would require modifications to the layouts referenced in initView which is private. So when I get a little time I will update method availabilities to protected and maybe re-structure a little to help with any custom video layouts like this

[notsatyarth]

OK thanks,Feel free to close the issue if its out of scope .Thank you 👍 :)

[notsatyarth]

Also ,I do not want to open an issue for something this trivial hence asking here.But I cannot play webm videos on a Samsung API 17 phone. Is that possible? Or am i doing something wrong. Only audio plays while there is no video.

[brianwernick]

Hmm, webm should work :/

I'll see if I can get any webm to play on my devices this weekend (I haven't tested it in a while)

[notsatyarth]

And if a video does not play,is there a callback that I can receive and choose an alternating format.
Also maybe get a list of the possible formats?

[brianwernick]

Sorry; I haven't forgotten about this, I've just been pretty busy with work lately. It looks like it may be closer to the new year when I can get around to any issues :(

[notsatyarth]

No issues.Thank you for the library :).
Also do let me know if you need any help in maintaining.

[brianwernick]

I just tried webm again and it plays without issues on my Nexus devices (and the new emulator) [http://video.webmfiles.org/big-buck-bunny_trailer.webm]

[brianwernick]

I'm going to close this as WEBM is currently working (there are updates that will be in 2.5.0 that should fix a few minor playback issues). The method availability changes will be in the next major release (3.0) since I'm making other architectural changes I will wait until then.

[brianwernick]

As far as the original Rotation question goes: I have added the ability to manually specify video rotation in the 3.0 branch. See #159

[notsatyarth]

Thanks a lot!