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Android Video Streaming playing slowly?

I am developing a video based android application. I want to play a video (Video Format: mp4) from a URL. But it's not live stream video stored in the server. Get video URL from JSON object and playing video. The video is playing but not in a good manner.
Sometimes the audio is mismatched then take more time to play some take more time to buffer. But with the same video and same wifi speed I have on my system when playing with chrome it's playing well. I don't know what I am doing wrong? I also tried with android video view but the same problems occurred.
My code to start video player
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setDataAndType(Uri.parse(uri), "video/*");
startActivity(intent);
My code to playing with video view
VideoView vidView = (VideoView)findViewById(R.id.myVideo);
String vidAddress = "https://archive.org/download/ksnn_compilation_master_the_internet/ksnn_compilation_master_the_internet_512kb.mp4";
Uri vidUri = Uri.parse(vidAddress);
vidView.setVideoURI(vidUri);
MediaController vidControl = new MediaController(this);
vidControl.setAnchorView(vidView);
vidView.setMediaController(vidControl);
vidView.start();

What android version did you try? Because https is not supported before android 3.1.
Check supported protocols and media formats here

You can use the MediaPlayer to do this.
mMediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
mMediaPlayer.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
Map<String, String> headers = new HashMap<String, String>();
headers.put("rtsp_transport", "tcp");
headers.put("max_analyze_duration", "500");
mMediaPlayer.setDataSource(context, Uri.parse(videoUrl), headers);

VideoView vs MediaPlayer?

Please tell me why this would work on with MediaPLayer and not in videoView? And how to make it work with a video view?
Videos are downloaded form an API and saved in this folder I created:
File mediadir = cw.getDir("tvr", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
VideoView
final Uri uri = Uri.parse(path);
// path = /data/data/com.foo.app/tvr/video.mp4
videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.videoView);
videoView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
videoView.setOnCompletionListener(this);
videoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(path));
videoView.start();
Error VideoView Sorry, this Video cannot be player and error (1, -2...)
MediaPlayer --- THIS WORKS
FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(path);
MediaPlayer pl = new MediaPlayer();
pl.setDataSource(fileInputStream.getFD());
pl.prepare();
pl.start();

The basic reason is the MODE_PRIVATE, which disallow VideoView and MediaPlayer from playing non-World Readable files, unless you pass the FD as you have.
Here's a more detailed explanation

How to play a mp4 videos in Android through Server

I am using following code to play mp4 videos which is stored in sever.... And i am get error like this->
This Video can not be played????
Uri video = Uri.parse("http://129.0.0.....");
MediaController mediaController = null;
mVideoView.setMediaController(mediaController);
startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://129.0.0....")));
mVideoView.setVideoURI(video);
mVideoView.setVideoPath("http://129.0.0......");
mVideoView.requestFocus();
mVideoView.start();

This might be helpful to you i have used this in android 2.3.3.
public void videoPlayer(String path, String fileName, boolean autoplay){
//get current window information, and set format, set it up differently, if you need some special effects
getWindow().setFormat(PixelFormat.TRANSLUCENT);
//the VideoView will hold the video
VideoView videoHolder = new VideoView(this);
//MediaController is the ui control howering above the video (just like in the default youtube player).
videoHolder.setMediaController(new MediaController(this));
//assing a video file to the video holder
videoHolder.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(YOUR_SERVER_VIDEOFILE_URL));
//get focus, before playing the video.
videoHolder.requestFocus();
if(autoplay){
videoHolder.start();
}
}

Always pass the mp4,3gp etc video format link in URI.Try this code:
VideoView videoView = (VideoView)this.findViewById(R.id.videoView);
MediaController mc = new MediaController(this);
mc.setAnchorView(videoView);
mc.setMediaPlayer(videoView);
videoView.setMediaController(mc);
videoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse("http://hermes.sprc.samsung.pl/widget/tmp/testh.3gp"));
videoView.requestFocus();
videoView.start();

play more than one video from one activity in android

How to play more than one video from one activity in my android application? I have the following code:
VideoView vd = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.surface_view);
String movieurl = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/content1/bio_brain.mp4";
mc = new MediaController(this);
vd.setMediaController(mc);
vd.setVideoPath(movieurl);
vd.start();

MediaPlayer can play one video at a time. It has an OnCompletionListener callback you can register to get notified when playback stops. Then you can play the second video.

Play mp4 Video using <Embed> tag on Android Webview

I want to play mp4 video using tag on Webview. I have few constraints for not to use HTML5 tag. I have looked code to play YouTube video on webview. But YouTube uses .flv format. I have .mp4 video to play.
Thanks in advance.

You could play the video directly, without a WebView:
VideoView videoView = new VideoView(this);
setContentView(videoView);
Bundle extra = getIntent().getExtras();
if (null != extra && extra.containsKey("url")) {
String url = extra.getString("url");
Uri uri = Uri.parse(url);
MediaController mc = new MediaController(this);
videoView.setMediaController(mc);
videoView.setVideoURI(uri);
videoView.start();
}