Determine when video has stopped   

Hi!,

We are having a problem with the player component and it would be great if someone could give us some ideas.

We need to know whether or not the video that is currently being played has finsished or if it is still playing. I am trying to play a file from a local folder.
I understand that setting the player in END_ACTION_STOP should stop the video after it is done.
The files being played were generated by our own camera system and do not contain any metadata about them.
Whenever I use the call getDuration() call I get a 0 and the player keeps playing even though it has finished playing the video (it stays on PLAYING when making the call getPlayerStateName())

->Is there any other way to know if the video has stopped?

->if not, how does the player obtains the duration of the file that is playing? does it check its metadata? there is no info about this on the API

Thanks in advance for your help

Sorry for splitting my reply in two parts but the forum was complaining "Disallowed content detected" that it would not post. So here is the other part I cut out in order to at least post something the first time around!

If you searched the forum for END_ACTION you will find a prior thread that discussed this a little. Since I am still having difficulty posting with an bit I copied from the thread I will just provide a link in the hope that I can then post this ok (although the forum here usually messes up on links too!!!)

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=14083124

Look at the first part of the 4th message in that thread.

Hopefully between what I just wrote and this other bit I referenced it's made things a little clearer for you.

Steve

Hi, if for the video is contained in an mp4 file, a mov file or an avi file then the player will be able to get the duration from the standard metadata that describes the tracks/video in those files. I think the issue with the duration is really only for raw video bitstreams where the file simply just has the compressed bits of the video.

If it's a raw video bitstream you have then you can use AVGen to create an mp4 file from it which should then get the duration. Since AVGen is an authoring component in the toolkit it spends the time going through the raw video file looking at the frame information to determine the duration which it can then put in the mp4 file as part of the metadata of that container.

Clearer now I hope...

Steve