Prolonged waiting for a video >3MB to play in S60 5th edition phones

[rj12info]

Hi All
I am using this code for video playback
And I want my app to start play videos > 2MB without much lag or delay. I am using this code.

void initPlayer()
{

try {
try {
player = Manager.createPlayer(filUrl); /******If no file-->got to catch get it from jar**************/
player.addPlayerListener(this);
player.prefetch();
player.realize();
}catch(Exception e) {
InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream("/Videos/britney.mp4");
player = Manager.createPlayer(is, "video/mp4");
player.addPlayerListener(this);
player.prefetch();
player.realize();
}
VideoControl videoControl = (VideoControl) (player.getControl("VideoControl"));

if (videoControl == null) {
midlet.alertError("VideoControl not supported");
}
else {
videoControl.initDisplayMode(VideoControl.USE_DIRECT_VIDEO,
this);
videoControl.setVisible(true);
}
videoControl.setDisplayLocation(20,150);
videoControl.setDisplaySize(320, 320);
initDone = true;
}
catch (IOException ioe) {
discardPlayer();
midlet.alertError("IOException: " + ioe.getMessage());
}
catch (MediaException me) {
discardPlayer();
midlet.alertError("MediaException: " + me.getMessage());
}
catch (SecurityException se) {
discardPlayer();
midlet.alertError("SecurityException: " + se.getMessage());
}
catch (Exception ex) {
discardPlayer();
midlet.alertError("Exception: " + ex.getMessage());
}

}
Can anybody please guide my app through to play videos with max 10 seconds delay for buffering.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coV06ChYWJo

[im2amit]

This may be happening because of low heap memory for j2me for 3MB file........ generally its around 2MB of heap available to j2me at the start.
Try reading the URL in chunks of 512kb each in a background thread and pass the stream to the player.

[rj12info]

Hi Amit

Thanks for the help. With that I like to know how I should go about buffering the video in chunks .The only answer I have is to use ByteArray inputstream and feed to player manger. But this has to be done at the cost of using a thread?

Please let me know abt this


Thanks
rj12info