Does android support playlists for video files?

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Published on 2010-04-25T17:37:10Z Indexed on 2010/04/25 17:43 UTC
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I'm and android beginner, so go easy on me ;-)

I'm trying to play a sequence of video files which I'm downloading from a server. The challenge is that I want to have a smooth transition from one file to another.

My thought is to have two MediaPlayer instances each preparing and then playing in turn. It is not clear to me if they can both share the same SurfaceView? Or maybe, I should be using different views and swapping between them? Or, the idea is a bad idea all together?

When I try to run configure the MediaPlayer instance with a view that isn't visible it seems to crash my emulator.

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