XAMARIN FORMS how to create your own video player

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XAMARIN FORMS how to create your own video player

MrFane 6

I want to know how can I create my own videoplayer implementing it for both Android and Ios, what I need to do is to create a view that is shared between the 2 platforms like for example the Label or slider view. How can I do that? I want to do this because none of the packages that I've tried are what I need. Thanks in advance.

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Cole Xia (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) 6,756

Hello,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

Have you checked Xamarin Community Toolkit MediaElement ?

It is powerful and available on iOS , Android , UWP , macOS ...

We can implement custom transport controls to perform the functions including Play, Pause and Stop.

We can implement a custom position bar to show the the current location of the media , and we can manipulate the position bar to move forwards or backwards to a new position in the video.

We can Implement a custom volume control to manipulate the volume bar to increase or decrease the volume.

And It provides various of properties and event to customize.

BTW , What extra feature do you need ?

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MrFane 6 Reputation points

2021-03-25T16:45:08.337+00:00

Hi, thank you for the advice but I have already tried it and what I am looking for is to be able to change the current position of the position bar to every second.
Let me explain better : when I change the position of the position bar it only allows me to move to the second 0, 10, 20, 30.. to a number multiple of 10 and I have read that those are the main "video frames".
And in the past on an android project to solve this problem I wrote this line of code : " mediaPlayer.seekTo(time, MediaPlayer.SEEK_CLOSEST); "
But here I can't find any solution, I would be very grateful if you could help me, thanks!
Cole Xia (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) 6,756 Reputation points

2021-03-26T04:38:10.583+00:00

I test MediaElement in Android simulator, it allows me to move any position .

Test in Xamarin.Forms : 5.0.0.2012 , Xamarin.CommunityToolKit: 1.0.3 .
MrFane 6 Reputation points

2021-03-26T07:23:33.92+00:00

Ok but int the gif you posted I see that if you go to a certain position it will go back to another nearby position for example in your gif you go to 2:11 end it starts however from 2:06.
I want a perfect precision like the youtube video.
Cole Xia (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) 6,756 Reputation points

2021-03-30T05:00:56.277+00:00

On Android, the Slider only has 1000 discrete steps, regardless of the Minimum and Maximum settings. If the media length is greater than 1000 seconds, then two different Position values would correspond to the same Value of the Slider . Check https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/community-toolkit/views/mediaelement#implement-a-custom-position-bar .

This seems to be a known issue : https://github.com/xamarin/XamarinCommunityToolkit/issues/417 .
MrFane 6 Reputation points

2021-03-30T07:59:29.84+00:00

Ok thanks but still in my case it wouldn't have much sense, The video I tried has only 30 seconds and it allows me to skip only to the seconds 0, 10, 20 and 30. It doesn't make any sense.
Cole Xia (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) 6,756 Reputation points

2021-04-01T08:06:45.223+00:00

Try another plugin : https://github.com/adamfisher/Xamarin.Forms.VideoPlayer .Wish it helps.

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