Can I add a surfaceView to my UnityPlayer

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I want to use a surface view to play a video with a mediaPlayer. I finally figured out how to do plugins, I can get an image to show up via plugin, now I'm trying to show a surfaceView at the bottom or top of my application (it doesnt matter) to play a video from my sd card.

The problem that shows up is

 W/SampleTable(   76): Table of sync samples is empty or has only a single entry!
 I/OMXCodec(   76): [OMX.SEC.AVC.Decoder] allocating 5 buffers of size 65536 on input port
 I/OMXCodec(   76): [OMX.SEC.AVC.Decoder] allocating 2 buffers of size 61440 on output port

and my video does not play. No other errors or anything show up just that little piece.

Can anyone help? I will try to work on this I just want to know if I can use a surfaceView ontop of my Regular UnityPlayer Activity (eg call Activity.addContentView(...))

Thanks.

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Answer by Raigex · Jul 16, 2012 at 02:49 PM

I found what the problem was. My video was playing. I just couldn't see it. When i built my plugin I did not know that UnityPlayer uses a SurfaceView (or something similar) so I needed to set the function surfaceView.setZOrderMediaOverlay(boolean) to true. This places the video above the unity player but below the window. It now works.

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baozi · Jul 18, 2013 at 01:08 AM 1

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This saved my life. Thank you.

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Answer by robertandriessen · Feb 15 at 01:34 PM

Can I please ask how you built that surfaceview to play video in the bottom layer below the ui? I have been trying to figure it out as it seems the only way to access native video playback. @Raigex

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