Playing Video

Playing video is similar to playing audio. However, the video player needs to be told where to display the video. Therefore you get a VideoControl from the video player and display it either as a Form item or in a Canvas.

To display video as a Form item:

InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream("/somefile.3gp");
Player player = Manager.createPlayer(is, "video/3gpp");
player.realize();
VideoControl vc = 
    (VideoControl)player.getControl("VideoControl");
if (vc != null)
{
    Item it =
        (Item)vc.initDisplayMode(VideoControl.USE_GUI_PRIMITIVE,
                                 null);
    myForm.append(it);
    p.start();
}

To display video in a Canvas (for a full example, see the example MIDlet's source code):

InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream("/somefile.3gp");
Player player = Manager.createPlayer(is, "video/3gpp");
player.realize();
VideoControl vc =
    (VideoControl)player.getControl("VideoControl");
if (vc != null)
{
    vc.initDisplayMode(VideoControl.USE_DIRECT_VIDEO, myCanvas);
    vc.setVisible(true);
    p.start();
}

Note that by default a video control displayed in a Canvas is not visible.

If the VideoControl's display mode is set to USE_DIRECT_VIDEO, the second parameter of the initDisplayMode method can be either a Canvas or an object created from Canvas.

In the VideoControl's setDisplaySize method, the image will be scaled to fit if the requested display size is different from the dimensions of the video clip. In Canvas, VideoControl's setDisplayFullScreen(true) method sets the display to the whole Canvas, not the whole screen. The values returned by the getDisplayWidth and getDisplayHeight methods are unaffected by this call (that is, they do not afterwards return the width and height of the full screen).