PlayerView: Provide option to show default artwork when no prepared player is attached

[roninshahi]

hi
I wanna show a preview bitmap of a video in exoplayer.i have the bitmap and I use

playerview.setUseArtwork(true);
playerview.setDefaultArtwork(bitmap); 

but it doesn't work.
***i havent write any code to connect playerview to exoplayer.
I used an image view to show the preview and then hide it but it wasn't good.

[ojw28]

Artwork passed to setDefaultArtwork is only displayed when the player is connected to the view and prepared (and if the prepared media doesn't contain any artwork of its own).

I'll mark this as an enhancement to provide an option for the default artwork to also be displayed when there's no player and when the player is not prepared.

[roninshahi]

ty

[HiroyukiTamura]

I'll mark this as an enhancement to provide an option for the default artwork to also be displayed when there's no player and when the player is not prepared.

any updates?

[KgotsoK]

This should be prioritized...

[elmateo487]

This seems like such low hanging fruit. In order to show an image on the view, such as when there is no internet and the stream isn't loading, we have to wrap the view with another image view. IMO, this view should just be displayed the second the player is displayed. Then we can listen for playback errors and show the whole PlayerView, which would then have an image on it

[grndvl1]

Yeah, I'm surprised there is no way to show a placeholder image then when prepare and play go, hide that image and show video. Should be an option unless there is something blocking that from happening. I will just wrap an image view and show hide when player is prepping.

[lmj0011]

#4639

[ParticleCore]

this issue was opened in 2019.
it's currently 2021, almost ending, and still no proper solution for this. forcing the use of an artwork by means of loading a chunk of video data can be quite expensive if it is a high resolution video, instead of just keeping the player unprepared and showing a custom image.

[yuyuan20]

Any updates on this issue?

[SaNu-hIT]

Any update on this issue ?

[mohodroid]

Any update on this issue ?

[imansdn]

Aw, shoot it's still open, now I have to go for a workaround! =)