VideoControl Field Issues

There are a few things the Video Control Field does very poorly:

  1. After taking a snapshot, the field disappears. To get around this you must remove the field and re-add it after every snapshot. One other option is to push and then pop a dummy screen.
  2. App crashes if you try taking a snapshot when the field is not visible. I suggest keeping the back light on permanently when the field is present, and popping the screen if an incoming call is made.
  3. The VideoControl field will get distorted when a menu or other popup is pushed in front of the Video field.
  4. Sizing. Full screen or default size are all that is supported. This size varies by device. See comment below.

You can find usage information on the VideoControl in RIM's knowledge base article here

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Comments (1)

 

  1. Sep 22, 2009

    Martin Reed says:

    The video Field size can be changed inside sublayout(). Set the display size for...

    The video Field size can be changed inside sublayout(). Set the display size for the javax.microedition.media.Manager after calling layoutChild() on the Field.

    Example
    MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = getMediaPlayer();
Field videoField = mediaPlayer.getVideoField();
if ( videoField != null && equals( videoField.getManager() ) ) {

    int fieldX = 10;
    int fieldY = 10;

    int fieldWidth = width - 20;
    int fieldHeight = availableHeight - 10;

    layoutChild( videoField, fieldWidth, fieldHeight );
    mediaPlayer.setDisplaySize( fieldWidth, fieldHeight );

    setPositionChild( videoField, fieldX, fieldY );
}

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