i am having the same issue, i am using  MediaController.MediaPlayerControl  
and its hang after play for about few minutes, is that what you having too?

On Friday, July 2, 2010 9:10:34 AM UTC-4, MarcoAndroid wrote:
>
> Hi, 
>
> I've been starting to use the MediaController in combination with the 
> MediaPlayer. Besides finding out some documented weird behaviour (like 
> if you create a MediaController from XML the show()/hide() don't do 
> anything but they do work if you create the controller via code), I 
> did find some undocumented (AFAICT) buggy? behaviour. Here it goes: 
>
> 1) Why is the mediacontroller too wide by default, that is when all 
> buttons are showing (which is the case when you create it from XML)? 
> See screenshot here: 
> http://www.4shared.com/photo/ogbrAo4H/mediacontroller_toowide_2010-0.html 
> The |< and >| are cut off! 
> Even on a real Nexus One it's too wide, only in landscape it fits 
> (easily; it doesn't get stretched full width either) 
> If I add paddingLeft and right to the wrapping LinearLayout, the left 
> & right of the mediacontroller are just cut off. 
> If I add paddingLeft and right to the MediaController xml, the left & 
> right of the mediacontroller are also just cut off. 
> If I change the width of the MediaController view in the XML to 200dip 
> it just gets cut off. 
> Apparently the controller is not made resolution independent using 
> dips etc? Or can I do something to make it fit? For now I take out the 
> << and >>, the user can seek with the slider too... 
>
> 2) Why is it called a floating window (at least in its 
> implementation), I can't seem to be able to move it around. Floating 
> is meant here only as: it is on top of something? 
>
> 3) It seems you really need to wait a bit before calling 
> controller.show() because otherwise something is not ready yet (I get 
> something like window null - Activity not started error). Is this 
> true? Is there a better way to do it than postDelayed as mentioned in 
> this post: 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1759862/how-can-i-get-an-android-mediacontroller-to-appear-from-layout-xml?
>  
>
>
> 4) It seems getBufferPercentage() only gets called when you press a 
> button on the control? I do see the mediaplayer's onBufferingUpdate() 
> getting called in the example below, but getBufferPercentage only when 
> I touch a button on the MediaController: 
>
>   controller.setMediaPlayer(new MediaController.MediaPlayerControl() { 
>     public int getBufferPercentage() { 
>       return bufferedPercentage; 
>     } 
>     public int getCurrentPosition() { 
>       return mediaPlayer.getCurrentPosition(); 
>     } 
>     public int getDuration() { 
>       return mediaPlayer.getDuration(); 
>     } 
>     public boolean isPlaying() {return mediaPlayer.isPlaying();} 
>     public void pause() { 
>       mediaPlayer.pause(); 
>     } 
>     public void seekTo(int pos) {} 
>       public void start() { 
>       mediaPlayer.start(); 
>     } 
>   }); 
>
> Any ideas why it's not being called? My workaround for now is to do a 
> controller.show() call in mediaPlayer.onBufferingUpdate(). 
>
> 5) This I found out by experience and seems to me incorrect in the 
> docs here: 
> http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/MediaController.html 
> I read the bottom 3 statements as: no prev/next buttons are shown if 
> setPrevNextListeners() is not being called. 
> But when creating the controller via XML they are shown disabled, 
> though I'm sure not having called setPrevNextListeners(). 
>
> 6) In 1.6 the slider knob is showing correctly at starting and ending 
> point, see screenshot for starting point (note that the stream as been 
> loaded, but whether it's loaded or not has no impact): 
> http://www.4shared.com/photo/FeK1kxXT/mediacontroller_slider_sdk16_s.html 
> But in 2.1 the slider know is slightly hidden under "something" on the 
> left and "something"  on the right, see screenshots: 
> http://www.4shared.com/photo/UH5jHyMd/mediacontroller_slider_sdk21_b.html 
> http://www.4shared.com/photo/8chC5_Q5/mediacontroller_slider_sdk21_b.html 
> Seems a bug to me. Or can I do something about this? 
> BTW: the correct position in 2.1 seems to be about 4secs into the 
> track, see this screenshot: 
> http://www.4shared.com/photo/fbM-PNJ1/mediacontroller_slider_sdk21_o.html 
>
> 7): Why is the downloading of an mp3 from the internet (via a URL) 
> starting all over again when I drag the slider all the way to the left 
> (i.e 0)? Seems not necessary, and will make the user have to wait 
> again for the download. 
>
> 8) In 1.6 it was fine to call controller.setEnabled(true) before 
> controller.setMediaPlayer(), but definitely in 2.1 it is not allowed 
> anymore, you get a NullpointerException. If you check the 
> MediaController source code, you'll see it's calling a mediaPlayer 
> method w/o checking for null. 
>
> Hope somebody can provide some input on these! 
>
> Regards, 
> Marco 
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