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Willy19401
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February 3, 2013
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Can't play Video in Sony Xperia

  • February 3, 2013
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This is extremely weird. I deploy my Adobe AIR app as an .apk for my Xperia and everything works fine EXCEPT playing videos.

I have tried flash.media.Video (NetStream, NetConnect etc). I get the video to play fine in the Desktop simulator. If I try to play video on the mobile device (Sony Xperia Arc S) I get a black screen!

I have managed to narrow down the source of the problem: as soon as this piece of code is encountered:

"new Video()" (yes, exactly as you see it here, nothing more, nothing less!)

the app's screen (all of it) goes black! I can still hear the music playing as well as the sound effects, but I get a completely black screen!

Occasionaly, I get a glance of the video's first frame before the screen goes black.

Trying to hack around this problem, I embedded my video as a MovieClip. However, as soon as I create an instance of the embedded MovieClip, the screen goes black again.

Finally, I have tried playing a video with the StageVideo class, but as soon as this piece of code is encountered:

"stage.addEventListener(StageVideoAvailabilityEvent.STAGE_VIDEO_AVAILABILITY, onStageVideoState);"

again, I get a black screen on the mobile (on the desktop, I simply get a "StageVideo not available" message or something like that).

I haven't had the chance to try on another device. Is it my mobile? Is it Xperia? Is it AIR?

PS. I have tried Air 3.4 and 3.5, both in Flash Builder and Flash CS6 with exactly the same results.

PS2. Anything else to hack my way through? (StageWebView is rejected because I need to show my stuff above the video)

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Anonymous
March 22, 2013

That is just a hunch:

When i had the "can hear sound, cant see video" situation for videos in stageWebView, it was fixed by turning on the hardware acceleration in the app-descriptor.xml.

<android>

    <manifestAdditions><![CDATA[

        <manifest android:installLocation="auto">

            <application android:enabled="true" android:hardwareAccelerated="true">

....

After that, videos worked fine.

On Xperia, sometimes youtube videos were still cropped and the background flickert sometimes.

XPeria is a troublemaker, most "AIR-bugs" i experienced are exclusively found on this stupid device.

V.

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Willy19401Author
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March 27, 2013

Thank you so much for your reply. I have tried what you suggest but have had no luck.

It's hard to believe that only Xperia devices have this problem. I mean, the result is that the whole app simply isn't functional..!

chris.campbell
Community Manager
chris.campbellCommunity Manager
Community Manager
March 27, 2013

I don't know if we have this device in our department, but if you get a chance, please open a new bug report on this over at bugbase.adobe.com. When adding the bug, please include a sample project / application so we can quickly test this out internally.  If you'd like to keep this private, feel free to email the attachment to me directly (ccampbel@adobe.com). 

Once added, please post back with the URL so that others effected can add their comments and votes.

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