Wrote an application for GoogleTV box to play a video. The video is a separate activity to the main activity. Wired up a button on my main layout/activity to to start the video activity up (using its own video.xml layout), the video activity loads and starts playing, but the video is clipped, only showing a few centimetres of the bottom. The clipped region looks like the views that occupied the previous layout (main.xml) . The intriguing thing is that if I push the back button, before returning to the main activity the full video frame is shown. Not sure what I am doing wrong here. Any suggestions welcome.

Code: main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/hello_message"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="200dp"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:text="@string/hello_message"
        android:textSize="78sp" />

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/edit_message"
            android:layout_width="0dip"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:ems="10"
            android:hint="@string/edit_message" >

            <requestFocus />
        </EditText>

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button_send"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:onClick="displayMessage"
            android:text="@string/button_send" />
        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button_send_a"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:onClick="sendMesssage"
            android:text="@string/button_send_a" />

    </LinearLayout>

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/videobutton"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:onClick="startAVideo"
        android:text="Video Player" />

</LinearLayout>

GoogleTVExActivity.java (excerpt):

...
public class GoogleTVExActivity extends Activity {

     public final static String EXTRA_MESSAGE = "uk.co.bbc.googletvex.MESSAGE";

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
    }

    public void displayMessage(View view)
    {
        TextView t = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.hello_message); 
        EditText e =(EditText) findViewById(R.id.edit_message);
        t.setText(e.getText().toString());
        e.setText("");
    }

    public void sendMesssage(View view)
    {
        Intent intent = new Intent(this, DisplayMessageActivity.class);
        EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.edit_message);
        String message = editText.getText().toString();
        intent.putExtra(EXTRA_MESSAGE, message);
        startActivity(intent);
    }

    public void startAVideo(View view)
    {
        Intent intent = new Intent(this, VideoViewActivity.class);
        startActivity(intent);
    }
}

video.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <VideoView
   android:id="@+id/myvideoview"
   android:layout_width="fill_parent"
   android:layout_height="fill_parent" />

</LinearLayout>

VideoViewActivity.java (excerpt)

...

import android.app.Activity;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.MediaController;
import android.widget.VideoView;

public class VideoViewActivity extends Activity {

    String SrcPath = "rtsp://v5.cache1.c.youtube.com/CjYLENy73wIaLQnhycnrJQ8qmRMYESARFEIJbXYtZ29vZ2xlSARSBXdhdGNoYPj_hYjnq6uUTQw=/0/0/0/video.3gp";

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.video);
           VideoView myVideoView = (VideoView)findViewById(R.id.myvideoview);
           myVideoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(SrcPath));
           myVideoView.setMediaController(new MediaController(this));
           myVideoView.requestFocus();
           myVideoView.start();
    }

}