Problem creating player on N81

[lamiaaMB]

Hey everybody,

I'm facing a weird problem here, my application reads a list of URLs from a server using a socket connection , then use one of these URLs to create the player.

Reading from the socket and creating the player are functioning well separately, but when I'm using the received URL to create the player it get stuck at this line

myPlayer=Manager.createPlayer(url);

url=itemTable.get(itemName);

where itemTable is a Hashtable where I keep the URLs.

This problem appears only on the mobile device N81, while the application works perfectly on the WTK 2.5 and Nokia's S60 3rd edition SDK.

Any ideas?!!

Thanks in advance
Lamiaa

[hartti]

What is the protocol you use?
What is the file format?
Is the URL abvailable in general to your phone (can you for example stream that in Real Player)?
Have you tried a simple test application which justs creates a player with that URL (so no opening of sockets etc before creating the player)?

Hartti

[lamiaaMB]

I'm using rtsp to stream (.rm) file, and yes the url is available and I've created the player successfully without the socket part.
The problem appears only after reading from the socket.

Thanks
Lamiaa

[hartti]

And you are closing the socket connection before trying to start the streaming?

Hartti

[lamiaaMB]

Yes, I do close the socket connection before streaming.

This is the code I use to read from the socket

public static String strReceiver()throws Exception{

DataInputStream reader=strInput();

currentThread().sleep(400);
int count=reader.available();
status="I have "+count+"bytes available";
StringBuffer data=new StringBuffer();
for(int i=0;i<count;i++){
data.append((char)reader.readByte());

}
reader.close();

return data.toString();
}

And this is how I call it in the Midlet

public void callServer(){
Thread myThread=new Thread(){
public void run(){
try{
//monitoring.setText(MoviStream.status);
MoviStream.strconnect();
monitoring.setText(MoviStream.status);
String data;
currentThread().sleep(800);
data=MoviStream.strReceiver();
monitoring.setText(MoviStream.status);
System.out.println(data);

itemTable=Lists.buildTable(data);
if(!itemTable.isEmpty())
commandAction(Connect,Start);
MoviStream.strConnection.close();/* the socket is closed here*/


}
catch(Exception e){

e.printStackTrace();
myAlert = new Alert("Exception",e.toString(), null, AlertType.CONFIRMATION);
switchDisplayable(myAlert,getStart());
}
}
}; myThread.start();

}

And here comes the problem:

url=itemTable.get(choiceGroup1.getString(choiceGroup1.getSelectedIndex())).toString();
myPlayer=Manager.createPlayer(url);

The code works fine on S60 3rd edtion SDK but not on the mobile.

Lamiaa

[hartti]

Have you tried closing the socket before you call the CommandAction (=right after calling the strReceiver()?

Hartti

[lamiaaMB]

closing the socket before you call the CommandAction

That was it
Thanks Hartti

Lamiaa