Stage Video on 3.0 rc / android

[danielwinberg]

Has anyone gotten stagevideo to work on air 3 rc on an android device?

It works like a charm on ipad / ios, but whatever I do it keeps showing up as "unavailble" on a samsung galaxy tab. Adobe is awfully quiet about this, which

is weird considering the release documents claims it supposed to work.

I have 24 hours to solve this or otherwise I'm gonna be forced to recommend our client to develop 2 separate versions for ios and android instead. And probably

not have the patience to bother about air again.

[DavidSaracino]

StageVideo in AIR 3.0 on Android is only available on Honeycomb tablets.  We weren't getting performance improvements on pre-HC devices using the SV path, and in some cases it was even worse than classic video, so we disabled it.  So, on devices < HC, you'll get the unavailable event - this is correct and expected.

I'll make sure the release documents are clearer.

[DavidSaracino]

To expand on this a bit further, another part of the rationale for this decision was to make lives easier for developers: if StageVideo is available, you know you can display a high-quality video (up to 720p usually, but could vary with video) on the device with a good frame rate.  If StageVideo isn't available, the device won't support that video, so you should fall-back on a lower-quality video in a classic Video object.  Doing this allows us to add support to certain pre-HC devices in the future without forcing content to change as well, and since the Video and StageVideo api's are so similar, it should be relatively easy for developers to dynamically switch-out which object is attached to a NetStream.

Hope this helps.

[Guest]

I am working on a motorola Xoom. Adobe air 2.7.1, upgraded to android 3.1 and StageVideo gives no signs of life.

Even worst, the StageVideoAvailabilityEvent.STAGE_VIDEO_AVAILABILITY never fires.

StageVideo doesn't work both into a complied app or within the browser, with flash player 10.3

Let's be honest: this adobe air isn't ready for commercial apps yet 😞

[Colin Holgate]

I believe that rendermode needs to be 'direct' for stagevideo to work.

[Vincent35]

ottocid: put the rendermode in gpu in the xml cnfig of your app, not auto or cpu

[DavidSaracino]

Please also note that the StageVideo API is available beginning with AIR 3.0 for Android, not 2.7.1, and it is not available in FlashPlayer for Android (there is an automatic SV we do under the hood on FP).  And, as the others have indicated, you need renderMode direct for StageVideo to work on AIR for Android.

Thanks for your feedback.  Please keep posting any other problems you're having, and we'll help clarify and point you in the right direction.

[Guest]

@Vincent35 I have tried adding the tag "rendermode" into the -app.xml and again the STAGE_VIDEO_AVAILABILITY event never fires.

I am compiling with flash 5.5, and giving "GPU" for rendering into the compiler options.

Probably I will have to wait for AIR 3.

And still hoping that AIR will become reliable 😞

[Vincent35]

Use Adobe Air 3.0 RC

I have tested that on an iPad, i have availability of stagevideo in gpu mode but it is buggy, and seems fixed in the last version of Air 3.0

Air 3.0final version seems to be available next week. Wait a little and you will see the magic

[hoono]

Has anyone had a definite results yet? I am trying under AIR3.0.0.408 (Capabilities.version = AND 11,0,1,152) with Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with Honeycomb 3.1 with AIR running under GPU mode and still had no luck.

BTW, I am currently using Flex SDK 4.5.1.21328 + AIRSDK 3.0.0.4080

[DavidSaracino]

hoono - GPU Mode isn't supported with StageVideo on AIR Android.  Please try Direct Mode.

[hoono]

Hi David, thanks for your answer, I haven't tried the direct mode yet because I didn't know that direct mode was added as a valid value to the descriptor xml.

Nevertheless, I am still not getting any stage video availability with the rendermode set to direct with Galaxy Tab 10.1 =|

Maybe this device has never been tested by adobe?

[devomatic]

Same here with transformer, I've tried with beta last weeks, I think it worked. Now with release I'm always in software rendering mode.

[DavidSaracino]

@hoono - 10.1 is definitely on our test grid, and I just validated that StageVideo works on that device with the AIR runtime downloaded from the Android Market (3.0.0.408).  Can you confirm you also have the App Namespace set to 3.0?  You need namespace 3.0 and direct render mode.

@devomatic - When you say rendering mode, I think you mean decoding mode, and that is different than StageVideo Availability.  And you can have SV with HW or SW decoding.  Decoding mode (accelerated or sw) depends on the device and the video, and we made some late changes to remove HW decoding for certain video types on that device for stability reasons.  Can you 1) confirm you're getting an Available event, and 2) tell me about the video you're trying to play?  (If you're not getting the event please verify your render mode and namespace settings.)

I hope this helps, and I hope we can get you guys unstuck soon!  I want to see your awesome apps in the market - please post up here whenever they are

[hoono]

Hi David, thanks for your help 😃

I must admit that I didn't update the namespace to 3.0 before, and I tried again after updating the namespace but I am still unable to get stage video availability.

Here is the xml I have used:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>

<application xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/3.0">

<id>test.stagevideo</id>

<filename>teststagevideo</filename>

<name>teststagevideo</name>

<versionNumber>1.0.0</versionNumber>

<initialWindow>

  <content>teststagevideo.swf</content>

  <autoOrients>true</autoOrients>

  <fullScreen>false</fullScreen>

  <renderMode>direct</renderMode>

  <visible>true</visible>

</initialWindow>

<android>

  <manifestAdditions><![CDATA[

   <manifest android:installLocation="auto">

     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

   </manifest>  

  ]]></manifestAdditions>

</android>

</application>

thanks again 😃

[Joe ... Ward]

Another requirement to use StageVideo (and any other AIR 3/Flash 11 feature) is to set the SWF version to 13. You can set this in the Flash Builder properties for the project by adding, "-swf-version=13" to the additional compiler options text box.

[devomatic]

"-swf-version=13"
That's the solution for me, StageVideo is now available. Vieo doesn't work but I think that's a codec problem.

Why using Air 3.0 doesn't set this parameter automatically ?

[hoono]

-swv-version=13 made things work like charm

Thanks everyone for the help! 😃

[Absolut_Renal]

Hello, I also have an issue using StageVideo on Galaxy Tab 10.1 Honeycomb.

I compile my app using Flash CS5.5 as an Air 3.1 app. But when trying to use StageVideo I receive the StageVideoAvailabilityEvent with event.availability == StageVideoAvailability.UNAVAILABLE.

Although I compile my app with direct render mod and my app namespace is set to Air 3.1.

On the tab, I've the latest version of Air installed.

Any idea what I did wrong ?!

[devomatic]

<colorDepth>32bit</colorDepth>

?

[Absolut_Renal]

unfortunately not ! I tried but always stageVideo unavailable.

[devomatic]

You can try gpu rendermode instead of direct. That's my last idea (gpu is only for android I think)

[Absolut_Renal]

already tested, and that doesn't solve my issue.

thanks

[Colin Holgate]

Which version of Honeycomb are you on? Notes online suggest that 3.1 is require for Stage Video. I guess that should still work in 3.2, but may not work in 3.0.

[Absolut_Renal]

I'm on Honeycomb 3.1