What I am looking for is very simple, but I have yet to find a solution - hopefully someone here can help!
I am creating a public kiosk for an android tablet (HP Slate 17) using Flash CC-2014 Pro, and the screen saver is a short video. All I need the video to do is loop indefinitely (and reliably) when the screen is not in use. Seems simple enough!
I first tried the built-in Flash Pro video player with FLV and H264 files - easy enough to implement, but after a few hours the video freezes. No good.
I then read up on "StageVideo" and how it utilizes the GPU of the tablet which should improve the performance. Sounds promising, but every time I get a working example to loop, it freezes after a few times around (about 3 minutes).
Not sure if I am just going about the loop wrong (very possible!) or if I'm just hitting a limitation of the tablet.
For the loop portion I just added this to a function that seems to get called when the video completes:
_ns.dispose();
_ns.play(_videoURL);
Here is a link to my test project (works fine on Mac, but freezes after a few loops on Android tablet):
I am willing to entertain other methods of this entirely - as long as I get a reliable video loop on Android.
This will potentially make or break this project, so I appreciate any help! Thanks!
As your target device is an Android tablet you could try using a video native extension.
Here's one from Distriqt that I use for cycling through videos over night in a shop display.
http://airnativeextensions.com/extension/com.distriqt.MediaPlayer