QML Video onSourceChanged

[Nihilish]

Hi,

I'm running a Video component as a view's background. I have 4 different video files for 4 different device types/screen aspect ratios. Tablet_Landscape, Tablet_Portrait, Phone_Landscape and Phone_Portrait.

I'm creating a binding on the orientation to switch between the Landscape and Portrait videos for the source but I noticed that when changing the orientation the video just disappears. I do get an onSourceChanged event but the new video is not actually loaded. I've looked through the documentation and there's nothing about this. Is there something I should call to load the new source onSourceChanged and start playback or is that simply a limitation of the Video component? There's a workaround with Loaders or possibly Playlists, but I'd rather just use a Source binding as it's just more elegant.

My code:

Video {
        id: requirementsScreenId

        anchors.fill: root

        source: {
            if (isPhone())
            {
                if (orientation === "landscape")
                    return "qrc:/Images/Phone_Landscape.mp4"
                else
                    return "qrc:/Images/Phone_Portrait.mp4"
            }
            else
            {
                if (orientation === "landscape")
                    return "qrc:/Images/Tablet_Landscape.mp4"
                else
                    return "qrc:/Images/Tablet_Portrait.mp4"
            }
        }

        autoPlay: true
        loops: MediaPlayer.Infinite
        muted: true
        fillMode: VideoOutput.PreserveAspectCrop
}

[fcarney]

@Nihilish check the status of the Video Item:
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtmultimedia-video.html#status-prop

I think your paths are wrong. We only ever quality our paths with qrc in our C++ code. Not in our qml code. So you most likely have an error.

Edit: I did my grep wrong. We are qualifying some paths in QML with qrc. Now I am confused why we have a mix.

[Nihilish]

@fcarney I just checked. When the video is working (before the orientation change) the status is "Buffered" and after the orientation change the status seems to be stuck in "Loading"

[Nihilish]

When the source changes I'm also getting a I GPUAUX : [AUX]~GPUAUXContext:71: destory: 0xcf240f68 debug message

[Nihilish]

This is on Android by the way, I'll check to see if it happens on iOS too

EDIT: Yeah, just on Android. It definitely sounds like an Android bug.