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Yevgeny Simkin
Yevgeny Simkin

Reputation: 28349

Is it possible to play one video on top of another in Android?

I'm trying to figure out if Android can handle two video video players occupying the same screen space, preferably with the one on top having alpha channel regions that are transparent to the one behind.

I know how to implement this code wise, I'm curious if anyone knows if this is physically possible before I bother throwing coding time at it.

TIA

Upvotes: 0

Views: 365

Answers (2)

peasea
peasea

Reputation: 346

Another option :

Player 1 : Stock MediaPlayer that renders on a SurfaceView

Player 2 : Yet-another-player that can render on a GLSurfaceView or a Bitmap. This must be custom-built to decode frames and write on a GLSurfaceView's context or Native-bitmap via JNI.

Upvotes: 1

CommonsWare
CommonsWare

Reputation: 1006604

AFAIK, no, at least before Android 4.0. You can't have two SurfaceViews overlap.

Now, it is conceivable that this is possible with TextureView with Android 4.0, though I am far from confident of that.

Upvotes: 1

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