VideoView - MediaController not showing up

Question

I can't get it working... Whenever I touch my video, nothing is happing... Although, I think, the MediaController should be visible...

I currently use following function to play my video:

private void playCachedVideo(final VideoView videoView, final Context c, File f)
{
    //videoView.setZOrderOnTop(true);        
    videoView.setOnPreparedListener(new OnPreparedListener()
    {
        @Override
        public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) 
        {
            mp.setOnVideoSizeChangedListener(new OnVideoSizeChangedListener() 
            { 
                @Override
                public void onVideoSizeChanged(MediaPlayer mp, int width, int height) 
                {
                    MediaController mediaController = new MediaController(c);
                    mediaController.setMediaPlayer(videoView);
                    mediaController.setAnchorView(videoView);
                    videoView.setMediaController(mediaController);
                }
            });
        }
    });
    videoView.setVideoURI(Uri.fromFile(f));
    videoView.start();
}

The video plays fine, but I can't get any MediaController to show up...

PS: I'm showing the player in a DialogFragment

same problem with me ,It is working when using Activity but not working with DialogFragment — Shashank Srivastava, May 06 '15 at 12:02

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 09 '16 at 06:53

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Try this:

mMediaController = new MediaController(getActivity());

replace c by getActivity().

edited Mar 09 '16 at 06:53

Eugene S

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answered Mar 09 '16 at 06:36

Gvs13

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 19 '16 at 14:23

You need to attach the controller to the VideoView and then call mediaController.show(timeInMillisec) in onPrepared() callback. This show the controller on touch of videoview and will hide the controller after specified timeInMillisec.

public class VideoViewActivity extends Activity implements  MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener{

    private VideoView mVideoView = null;
    MediaController mediaController = null;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.videoview_layout);

        mVideoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.VideoView);
        mVideoView.setOnPreparedListener(this);

        mediaController = new MediaController(mVideoView.getContext());
        mediaController.setMediaPlayer(mVideoView);
        mediaController.setAnchorView(mVideoView);
        mVideoView.setMediaController(mediaController);
        mVideoView.setVideoPath("URL");
    }

    @Override
    public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
        mVideoView.start();
        mediaController.show(2000);
    }
}

VideoView - MediaController not showing up

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