DiskLruCache for Videos

Question

My Android app downloads a bunch of photos and videos from a server and I want to cache this data. I've used DiskLruCach library to cache the images and it works fine but now I want to cache the videos also.

I've tried something like this but it doesn't seem to work - I can't find anything in the cache directory for the videos:

private boolean writeVideoToFile(String videoUri, DiskLruCache.Editor editor ) throws IOException, FileNotFoundException {
    OutputStream out = null;
    FileOutputStream fos;
    try {
        out = new BufferedOutputStream( editor.newOutputStream(0), Utils.IO_BUFFER_SIZE );
        File videoFile = Utils.createFile(Utils.TYPE_VIDEO_FILE);
        fos = new FileOutputStream(videoFile);
        fos.write(videoUri.getBytes());
        fos.close();
        return true;
    } finally {
        if ( out != null ) {
            out.close();
        }
    }
}

Can anyone give me an ideea on how I can accomplish this?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 29 '13 at 14:10

Not enough info, but I guess the call to getBytes() is the problem, probably an OutOfMemory exception.

Don't read the entire video file into memory (calling getBytes). Use a small intermediate buffer instead, writing/caching the video file chunk by chunk.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 30 '13 at 08:04

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You are calling getBytes() for String videoUri. Is that really what you meant to do?

answered Jun 30 '13 at 08:04

Anton Rutkevich

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I've abandoned this code! Right now I'm working with a simple implementation of DiskLruCache. It works for bitmaps but I'm having problems with the video part. Please see this link - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17382065/simplediskcache-inputstream-bad-number-format If you have any ideea please share! Thanks! – Alin Jun 30 '13 at 08:34

DiskLruCache for Videos

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