AIR for Android video issue

Well, as it sometimes happens with me, I have spoken too soon. The answer that I marked as ‘correct’ the other day (Colin, are you there?), seems to be not quite the right answer. At least, it doesn’t solve the video problem that I’m having with some, but not all, Android devices.

After trying Colin’s suggestion – using  if (stage.stageVideos.length != 0) to make sure that a stageVideoAvailabilityEvent hasn’t already fired when I try to play my first StageVideo instance – and getting perfect results in 10 consecutive tries on my Samsung S4 and S3 phones, I figured that was IT.

Next day, same devices and same code, it DIDN’T work! I pulled hair, issued profanities, hammered on the table. It didn’t matter—I still got a ‘mis-fire’ on the first play of a video whenever (almost whenever) I opened the app. After the first play everything was good – which is the exact problem that I started with many days ago. When I played Colin’s Sesame Street ‘Let’s Get Ready’ app again – the same first-play-of-video problem shows up there too.

This problem does not show up on Nexus 7  and the Samsung Galaxy 5 Tab. It is a royal p.i.t.a. on Samsung phones, where I need my app to work.

I created a bare-bones app to reproduce the problem, code below. Just a single class to play a single video with no controls. A few parameters (path to the video, and viewport stuff) are passed in from the document Class. I run it 10 times on my S4. It fails 7 times and plays well 3 times. The 'initialize2()' function never fires, proving that the stageVideos array already exists by the the time the 'initialize1()' function is called.

I'm pretty sure that this is not a coding problem (because it works well on some Androids and in iOS), but WHAT is it??

package vidTestSource

{

  import flash.desktop.NativeApplication;

  import flash.desktop.SystemIdleMode;

  import flash.display.MovieClip;

  import flash.display.Sprite;

  import flash.display.StageAlign;

  import flash.display.StageScaleMode;

  import flash.events.Event;

  import flash.events.NetStatusEvent;

  import flash.events.StageVideoAvailabilityEvent;

  import flash.geom.Rectangle;

  import flash.media.StageVideo;

  import flash.media.Video;

  import flash.media.StageVideoAvailability;

  import flash.net.NetConnection;

  import flash.net.NetStream;

  public class MobileVideosolo extends MovieClip

    {

      public var stream:NetStream ;

      public var video:StageVideo;

      var xx:Number;

      var yy:Number;

      var ww:Number;

      var hh:Number;

      var mymoov:String;

  public function MobileVideosolo(mymoov,xx,yy,ww,hh)

  {

      this.xx = xx;

      this.yy = yy;

      this.ww = ww;

      this.hh = hh;

      this.mymoov = mymoov;

     addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, onstage);

  }