Now this is a really stupid one! Forgive me on this question please but I really don't know the answer to it. My question is What have Youtube used to play videos intheir Android app? I mean is it a WebView or Just a simple VideoView? I used VideoView to play videos from the URL associated with them but it doesn't look as nice as YouTube's VideoView (or whatever it is)
And is there any other option to play videos from a URL other than using the code below? Because it just plays video in the native video player. If the red-marked portion in the image below is a VideoView, how does it look better than the normal VideoView? Or is it a WebView? Which one is a better option (in terms of UI) to play video from a URL? I'm using GingerBread and want to play mp4 or .flv videos in a VideoView or WebView (whichever is the better option, preferably like Android's YouTube app)
Uri data = Uri.parse(movieurl);
intent.setDataAndType(data,"video/3gpp");
startActivity(intent);
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I'm trying to render Youtube video onto Unity3d texture, through a plugin for Android.
1) Android MediaPlayer API can render video streaming with specific url onto a texture.
But there's no official method to reveal streaming urls for Youtube videos.
2) YoutubePlayerView class in Youtube API lets me ignore how to play Youtube videos,
but there's no way to render any Android View including YoutubePlayerView onto a Unity3d texture.
(I succeeded to render a WebView onto another SurfaceView, but when load Youtube iframe source onto the WebView, video is not rendered to another one; Youtube Player UI components were rendered.)
Is there anyone have some idea to solve? Any kind of workaround will be ok.
I was doing something like this with augmented reality. In my case I used a normal video player which you can play video files in a texture. What i did was use the direct link for the youtube video file (not youtube URL) instead of a local file link and it worked.
So you have to found the link to the youtube video file. It's easy with some libraries that you can find on internet. Also you can develop a web scraper to find it in the youtube URL html but its a more complicated option.
I added YouTube integration to a client's Unity 3D app with this 3D web plugin for Android / iOS. In my case, I just added the prefab to my scene and loaded YouTube like this:
prefab.WebView.LoadUrl("https://youtube.com");
If you want just the video by itself, it looks like you could access it with this VideoTexture property.
I have an application that I want to play a video in. I want to play the video from an embed code via html5 in an iframe. Is it possible to call the androids stock video player to play the video from the iframe embed code?
I fixed this by putting my embed code in an html file inside the assets folder. works greate.
I am launching the MediaPlayer to play a .mov file that is being passed into the MediaPlayer as a Uri (which is standard). However, it is telling me that it cannot play the file. However, if I put this same link on the web, and the click the link to launch the movie (while in my Android browser) the video plays no problem. However, I can't get the WebView to play it with the Video tag despite all my efforts.
So here is my question, what magic is taking place that allows an android browser app to take a .html url which contains a link to play a video and play it? If I load the same url in a WebView, or try to pass the video url into the mediaplayer, it is a no go. The format of the video is .mov.
Thanks in advance to everyone.
The Android browser and WebView are very different, WebView is very barebones as it was designed expecting people to use it for very basic showing html webpages. WebView by default has no plugins enabled, no javascript enabled and so on and so on. Never expect that because something works in the browser that it will work in a WebView.
Now in regards to how the media is handled. The Browser has extra features set up to strip the video source from the page and launch it in the native player most of the time. This functionality is not built into WebView. And the native player is very picky about what needs to passed into it as a URI to be able to play it.
Hope that helps,
Stevy888
I want to play a remote video in a Videoview. Anybody knows a good free server to load my videos in it to later stream in a videoview? Is possible to see in a videoview Youtube videos? I have see another questions but I don´t understand. Anybody can put a example to play a Youtube video or remote video for another server in a videoview?
Thank you
You can check android-youtube-player, a project to make YouTube videos play in a VideoView. The usage instructions and sample Activity code is available.
You can definitely stream video directly into a VideoView without a problem, and you set it up normally as well:
Uri pathtoVideo = Uri.parse(path);
videoView.setVideoURI(pathToVideo);
However, there are a lot of videos on Youtube that aren't mobile-friendly, and will end up throwing a "This Video Cannot Be Played" error.
The MediaPlayer on Android can only play "progressive streamable contents" which basically means: 1. the movie atom has to precede all the media data atoms. 2. The clip has to be reasonably interleaved. If it doesn't, you'll get the error I mentioned above.
Have you considered the YouTube API for android? I recently posted a tutorial on how to use the video and thumbnail views from the API here
I am trying to make an app that allows me to stream a video from a website and play that video in my app.
However, I would like to play this video from my app and not through youtube or anything else.
So you click a button and a video starts streaming and stays in my app and plays. Also, another quick question here, can I play videos from anywhere?
I think I read that it had to be .mp4 or something but im not sure. How can I tell if it's .mp4 by just looking at it?
If I really want to play a video that isnt .mp4 (or whatever it's supposed to be) is there any way at all that I could possibly play it?
The quickest way is to have a view dedicated to a Flash player which streams the video for you. You can generate the HTML at runtime and pass it into a WebView.
This is probably not what you are looking for because you mention that you want it to stream directly with Android. I thought I would put the suggestion out there though.
Edit:
You would use a WebView. Using the following function:
loadDataWithBaseURL(baseUrl, data, mimeType, encoding, historyUrl);
You pass in a base URL, which in this case can just be file:///android_asset/ and the data is your complete HTML code. etc.
The data would be set like so:
String data = "<html><head></head><body>flash player goes here</body></html>";
You would set the Flash player to occupy the whole screen, so that the size of the player is then determined by the size of your WebView.