I've already posted in the OP's comments section that this problem seems to be resolved with latest Android versions (greater than 4.x)and so I was opting to have similar behavior on Gingerbread devices as well. I would appreciate any help or advice.Īfter lot of googling around and head-scratching over state diagram of MediaPlayer, I finally managed to avoid this so called black screen. A black screen is shown instead of the video.ĭoes anyone have a workaround or solution for this issue. After returning to the activity and recreating the view, executing tDisplay(holder) again doesn't appear to re-attach the newly created view. The view (the 'holder') is destroyed when you leave the activity. The important line is tDisplay(holder) because it ties the current view/display to the media player. tType(SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_PUSH_BUFFERS) MPreview = (SurfaceView) findViewById(R.id.surface) This code essentially creates the view used for playback and then ties it to the media player: setContentView(R.diaplayer_2) When my playback activity is initially created the code shown below is executed. The problem with the example android code is if I'm watching a video and I leave the current window/activity (i.e press the menu button, etc) and return to the playback activity I get a black screen but still receive audio from the video that is playing. The difference between this example and my own code is my MediaPlayer is runs in a service which allows it to continue playback in the background. I've modeled my class after the example found at:

My application will stream music and video using the android MediaPlayer class. I'm currently developing the android application ServeStream and I've encountered and problem that I can't fix.

Media player black