Stream wmv Videos from a url in my android app - android

i am creating an app for my website which contains lots of wmv video files.
and i want to be able to play them in my app.
i understand that android does not support wmv files so my question is:
is there any way for me to do this without to change all videos format in my site?
any modificatios to my videos via code (java - eclipse) or libraries, any loop holes?


I've been trying to create a site that has streaming video and I could never get Android devices to work with it. Then I found this...
http://www.longtailvideo.com/blog/31646/the-pain-of-live-streaming-on-android

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m3u8 HLS Streaming not working in Android OS versions 6.0(M) and 5.0(L)

I am using MediaPlayer for Live steaming the Video using HLS medium.
The streaming file has extension .m3u8. The multimedia file is not able to provide streaming in Android OS versions MarshMallow and Lollipop in my case. Above OS version M the same file provides flawless streaming.
Questions that I am looking for the answers are below
Is it Hardware related issue?
Is it only OS related issue?
Why some of the m3u8 urls working fine on MediaPlayer implementation and some of not?
I am here sharing both the files the First one is working and the second one is not working.
1. Here is the First URL that working fine : https://bitdash-a.akamaihd.net/content/sintel/hls/playlist.m3u8
One can find the internal details of the file here
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#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="stereo",LANGUAGE="en",NAME="English",DEFAULT=YES,AUTOSELECT=YES,URI="audio/stereo/en/128kbit.m3u8"
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="stereo",LANGUAGE="dubbing",NAME="Dubbing",DEFAULT=NO,AUTOSELECT=YES,URI="audio/stereo/none/128kbit.m3u8"
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="surround",LANGUAGE="en",NAME="English",DEFAULT=YES,AUTOSELECT=YES,URI="audio/surround/en/320kbit.m3u8"
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="surround",LANGUAGE="dubbing",NAME="Dubbing",DEFAULT=NO,AUTOSELECT=YES,URI="audio/stereo/none/128kbit.m3u8"
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=SUBTITLES,GROUP-ID="subs",NAME="Deutsch",DEFAULT=NO,AUTOSELECT=YES,FORCED=NO,LANGUAGE="de",URI="subtitles_de.m3u8"
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=SUBTITLES,GROUP-ID="subs",NAME="English",DEFAULT=YES,AUTOSELECT=YES,FORCED=NO,LANGUAGE="en",URI="subtitles_en.m3u8"
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=SUBTITLES,GROUP-ID="subs",NAME="Espanol",DEFAULT=NO,AUTOSELECT=YES,FORCED=NO,LANGUAGE="es",URI="subtitles_es.m3u8"
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=SUBTITLES,GROUP-ID="subs",NAME="Français",DEFAULT=NO,AUTOSELECT=YES,FORCED=NO,LANGUAGE="fr",URI="subtitles_fr.m3u8"
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=258157,CODECS="avc1.4d400d,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="stereo",RESOLUTION=422x180,SUBTITLES="subs"
video/250kbit.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=520929,CODECS="avc1.4d4015,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="stereo",RESOLUTION=638x272,SUBTITLES="subs"
video/500kbit.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=831270,CODECS="avc1.4d4015,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="stereo",RESOLUTION=638x272,SUBTITLES="subs"
video/800kbit.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=1144430,CODECS="avc1.4d401f,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="surround",RESOLUTION=958x408,SUBTITLES="subs"
video/1100kbit.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=1558322,CODECS="avc1.4d401f,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="surround",RESOLUTION=1277x554,SUBTITLES="subs"
video/1500kbit.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=4149264,CODECS="avc1.4d4028,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="surround",RESOLUTION=1921x818,SUBTITLES="subs"
video/4000kbit.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=6214307,CODECS="avc1.4d4028,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="surround",RESOLUTION=1921x818,SUBTITLES="subs"
video/6000kbit.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=10285391,CODECS="avc1.4d4033,mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="surround",RESOLUTION=4096x1744,SUBTITLES="subs"
video/10000kbit.m3u8
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2. The content of the NOT WORKING m3u8 file is here as I could not share the URL itself.
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#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:3
#EXT-X-INDEPENDENT-SEGMENTS
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=1790800,AVERAGE-BANDWIDTH=1790800,CODECS="avc1.4d401f,mp4a.40.2",RESOLUTION=1024x576,FRAME-RATE=29.970,SUBTITLES="subs",CLOSED-CAPTIONS=NONE
XXXXXXX/1/XXXXXXX.m3u8
#EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=SUBTITLES,GROUP-ID="subs",NAME="English",DEFAULT=YES,AUTOSELECT=YES,FORCED=NO,LANGUAGE="eng",URI="XXXXXXX/XXXXXXX/XXXXXXX.m3u8"
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Any help, suggestions, feedbacks will be appreciated.

Playing m3u8 form local storage

We want to play m3u8 with ts files stored locally on SD card in Android 4.0 and above devices.
I tried using video TAG inside HTML residing locally on the SD card and android native media player.
Both the codes are failing with the error. The same set of ts and m3u8 files are working fine when played from online when served from a webserver connected through http.
Can we play m3u8 using native support for files stored offline or do we need to use 3rd party libraries. I searched in internet and didn’t find article about not supporting the same.
Any help or recommendation would help my work.
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I have already integrated VLC player in my android app in Linux environment.But now the issue is when i try to play the YouTube link .It Unable to stream the YouTube URL and the concerned g-data ".3gp" URL.The error is mentioned below.
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dl.dropbox.com/u/2377944/test/abr_test/index.m3u8
it must work in emulator too
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