I need to play a video in M3U8 format.
I used the following example but does not play the video (.m3u8), someone could help me?
Researched elsewhere and there are distorted information. Some say that the androids can not play, others say that only some versions reproduce and there are those who say to use VitamioBundle. Prem say is not guaranteed and increases the size of apk around 20mb.
Android supports HLS starting with version 4.0+. Most bugs were fixed on 4.4 so newer versions should work without issues.
Apart from the HLS protocol compatibility you need to make sure the stream you're trying to play is also supported. Older Android devices can only play Baseline Profile H.264/AVC with AAC in MPEG-TS. The supported media formats page lists HD 720p - 30 fps # 2 Mbit/s as the maximum level supported on the majority of devices.
Newer Android devices are able to play High Profile, Level 4.2, 60 fps.
There are a couple of 3rd party libraries available but discussing them here is off-topic as it attracts opinion based answers. You'll need to do a bit of research depending on your required target/specs.
Try to use ExoPlayer.
ExoPlayer is an application level media player for Android. It
provides an alternative to Android’s MediaPlayer API for playing audio
and video both locally and over the Internet. ExoPlayer supports
features not currently supported by Android’s MediaPlayer API,
including DASH and SmoothStreaming adaptive playbacks. Unlike the
MediaPlayer API, ExoPlayer is easy to customize and extend, and can be
updated through Play Store application updates.
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At this moment, we are using Android VideoView to perform video play black. Everything seems to be working great until we encounter Live Streaming.
VideoView tends to have 10-15 seconds delay from the live stream within a local network (LAN).
While attempting to solve this issue, we came across VLC Embed for Android. After searching on the Internet, it seems there isn't any article compare pros and cons of using Android VLC Embed vs. Android VideoView.
=== QUESTION ===
What's the advantage (pros) and disadvantage (cons) of using Android
VLC Embed vs. Android VideoView?
Is VLC Embed stable?
Anything I should be careful when switching existing VideoView to VLC?
Thank you all in advanced
My view may not be very professional but it's about what I've experienced so far.
First, Android VideoView is good since it comes with the Android SDK so it does not require external library. But this one has some limits. For example, as far as I know, it doesn't support MMS and MMSH protocols and some others I didn't quote. Which is not the case for Android VLC SDK. This library is complete and supports almost all media formats I know so far.
It just increases your apk on size, on my side that's the only disadvantage.
Is the Android VLC SDK stable? Yes it's stable and maintained by a huge community.
Anything I should be careful when switching existing VideoView to VLC?
You should keep your sources same and care about aspect ratio.
What's the advantage (pros) and disadvantage (cons) of using Android VLC Embed vs. Android VideoView?
Advantage：
More features. VLC supports almost all media formats, hardware decoding. audio tracks, subtitles, chapter are also supported.
More integrated, simpler logic. You can easily get media information and cache them. The playback engine will proactively notify state changes and events, just register player event listening.
Disadvantage:
APK file size increas. If both arm64-v8a and armeabi-v7a are supported, it will increase more than 30MB.
Multiple instances are not perfect. For example, playing 2 videos at the same time is a hassle.
Is VLC Embed stable?
Stable. Starting with VLC 2.0.x (now 3.0.x), I use the VLC library in my Android App. It runs steadily from Android 5.1 to Android 8.0. A small number of 4k h265 video playback is not normal, but can be resolved by displaying "Can not play".
Anything I should be careful when switching existing VideoView to VLC?
To use LibVLC on Android The Medialibrary(org.videolan.medialibrary) is also required. You also need to note the licenses.
VLC for Android is licensed under GPLv3
This may be a concern for you if your project uses a different license.
I am currently using android media player and switching different bandwidth URLs manually named on button click but video streaming is not smooth. App minimum sdk version is 15. I already looked up for Exoplayer but it is very large library. My expectation is for smooth streaming player which should be small in size and customizable also.
Sorry for too late answer but there is no other customizable video player available which is able to stream video based upon network bandwidth (except than ExoPlayer Android-best one ) but the only issue is that it supports from min Api level 16 My need was min SDK 15. So i customized standard media player for Api level 15 and using ExoPlayer for further Api level.
There are so many libraries available some of them are listed below.
you can clone repository and customize as per your requirement.
https://github.com/afollestad/easy-video-player
https://github.com/lipangit/jiecaovideoplayer
From
Android Developers - Enhanced camera & video,
Android 5.0 also adds support for multimedia tunneling to provide the
best experience for ultra-high definition (4K) content and the ability
to play compressed audio and video data together.
Any details or specifics of how Lollipop can play compressed Audio/Video? Also, what are the changes regarding that compared with earlier versions?
From the sources, there is some amount of understanding as captured in this post on Google groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-platform/isNabAHLLks
To summarize, the implementation of the video tunneling is vendor/device specific implementation.
EDIT: The aforementioned information is for the new feature Video Tunneling introduced in Lollipop. The normal playback is handled through NuPlayer unless there is a system property employed to specifically use StagefrightPlayer as shown here.
you can get clearly concept from
https://medium.com/google-exoplayer/tunneled-video-playback-in-exoplayer-84f084a8094d
If you want to know more detail, I think you could download
AOSP project to trace the tunnel mode APIs.
I've made an app to view vine videos on Android devices. These are basically .mp4 videos being loaded into a VideoView. From the following documentation (http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html), mp4 video playback is supported on Android version 3+ devices.
I've already added a android:minSdkVersion="11" to the manifest file to filter out older android versions from downloading the app, but I'm still getting feedback from users running newer versions of Android (eg. 4.1, 4.2) that complain about getting a "Video cannot be played" error message.
Since there's no way (that I know of, please correct me if I'm wrong) to test video playback using the emulator, I can't really know what's going on.
Is there any way to check for a device's ability to do video playback or at least get the emulator to play videos, so I can correctly fix this issue?
pd. for those interested, here's a link to my app in Google Play. As you can see, I'm being crushed by negative reviews: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thirtymatches.vineflow
If you look at the Google compatibility matrix closely, you'll see that support for MP4/H264 encoding started with the Android 3.0 release. Playback of MP4/H.264 has been supported by all Android devices back to Android 1.0, so there's no need for you to limit availability to newer releases of Android (unless you have other API compatibility needs).
Via VideoView, the video playback on all these devices is done using the hardware decoder provided by the phone's chipset. So to guarantee compatibility, the video has to be encoded to lowest-common denominator. Google provides "Video Encoding Recommendations" at the bottom of the page you linked; I also wrote an answer describing how we transcoded to a form of MP4/H264 that plays across all Android devices.
Not knowing what Vine is doing with their video clips, it might be that the videos aren't all encoded with uniform encoder parameters. They might be taking the videos straight off handsets and streaming them without any additional server-side processing to ensure wide compatibility; I don't know. If that's the case, you might find it challenging to develop an Android app that can show the content without a) implementing your own software codec (as apps like RockPlayer, MX Player or VLC do) or b) transcoding the videos on a server (which probably will run afoul of Vine's terms of service).
I want to play in .mov file in android. But videoview or mediaplayer doesn't support this meida format. How can i add the support to it?
In general Android doesn't support any other media formats than the one listed here. That being said, there are quite a few 3rd party players that enable playback of more exotic formats, most of which are probably based around ffmpeg. You might want to take a look at the open source Dolpin Player (actual player also available in the Play store) for Android for some more pointers - not sure if mov playback is supported by default though.
However, since most mov files are actually H.264 encoded these days, why not remultiplex (or re-encode, depending on the source) into an something that Android plays nice with, e.g. an mp4 container? In terms of video support on Android, H.264 is definitely the way, as also pointed out by the 'Video Encoding Recommendations' section in the earlier link.
I know this is an old question, but times changin'
Now we can use the ExoPlayer as a custom Video Player (like VideoView), it supports more formats than the VideoView on android.
It's really simple to use, just to play videos, but has the powerfull of customization if you needed.
https://google.github.io/ExoPlayer/
Give it a try and please respond if this helped you.
Just try to play it anyway. The Quicktime .mov specification is the predecessor of the MP4 spec. There are only differences in a few atoms/boxes. You will be able to play an MP4 as .mov and a .mov as MP4 in most cases.
I found that even the big named players such as MX Player, BS Player and VLC for Android would not play .mov files correctly, especially those that had been recoreded on my wifes iphone 4s.
The playback was very choppy on my Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 and totally unwatchable on my HTC One (M7).
The player I found and installed that will play old and new iphone movie clips (.mov) flawlessly was found freely available from the Google Play Store.
Here is the best player I have found and believe me I have tried lots:
Playing .MOV files on an Android Device
Hope this helps some of those people with an Android device wishing to view iphone .mov files.