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Hello guys,

I'm trying to repeat a video in a loop but even if I thought it would have been an easy task, I've found out I'm not able to do it.

I'm using libvlc for Android and I'm playing a video over the network. I simply instantiate a LibVLC object and then I create a MediaPlayer, set a Media to it and play.
When I get event EndReached, I try to set the position of the MediaPlayer to 0 but the video is not played back.

I've also try to see options like "--repeat", "--loop", "-L", "--global-key-loop=Loop" without any success.

The only working thing is to set the position to 0 at about 95% of the video length: it's working but the visual effect is not good, because the video is made to start and end with the same frame, so if I skip some of them it's a little bit "nervous" the transaction.


Thanks in advance for your help!

Stop the media player and start (play) again.

Ok thanks, stop and playing again for EndReached event works, but of course there's a gap in the playback because of buffering.
Considering it's an http video, I guess that's the best result I can quickly/easily get with libvlc right?

There's also a gap when seeking backward.

The way I am doing it is by checking if the state is ended if so set the media in the player again and play the media.

That is probably racy.