Two SurfaceHolders in one Activity

Question

I want to play one RTSP stream in a surfaceView while I prepare the other in a separate thread. However, the MediaPlayer does give an error when instantiating two SurfaceHolders:

Command PLAYER_PREPARE completed with an error or info PVMFErrResource

Despite this, the video gets buffered, but when I switch to it, only audio is played. In the Android docs it is stated that this is a consequence of not calling setDisplay(SurfaceHolder) but this is what causes the error. Does anyone have any idea how I can make the video part of the stream show and how to avoid the error when calling setDisplay? Is this a platform limitation? Thanks.

Answer 1

Maybe you could put two separate SurfaceViews inside (for example) FrameLayout. Use these with two separate MediaPlayers and show/hide (in parallel to stoping/starting video) SurfaceView you desire at given moment (using android:visibility set to GONE for example).