Android has a built in VideoPlayer which would seem to be the goto option, but just wondering if there might be even better open source video players for Android? This is for playing video within a commercial non-rooted android tablet.
http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-player/
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We are developing a native Android native app and are considering our options when it comes to video players (JW Player, .etc). Does anyone know of a video player for Android SDK that supports Chromecast? I have seen players that support HLS, etc but not Chromecast as of yet. Any ideas? Thanks.
If you are looking to enable casting for your application, I would use the CastCompanionLibrary located here:
https://github.com/googlecast/CastCompanionLibrary-android
Using this will allow you to cast videos from your app. As far as playing media within the app itself use the MediaPlayer view and add a custom button for chromecast if one is detected.
Here the short of it.
I'm using an HLS stream with JWPlayer6 for an iOS/Android app I am working on. JWPlayer http://www.longtailvideo.com/ works well and fallbacks to other streaming and player types gracefully. The problem is this, when I want to securely play back audio only in iOS the player is just a condensed black rectangle with a play icon in the middle if I click on the audio it plays fine but it launches the file in quicktime window, and the quicktime player window completely covers the app so you can't listen to the file and continue to use the app.
Is there any possible way to play an audio only stream that utilizes an actually embed-able player instead of the default mechanism of launching audio media types on iOS and Android.
I have already used JPlayer to achieve the functionality I want by placing the js/css player at the bottom of the app in a fixed position so that you can still browse the app while the file is being played, but this is only demo solution for my boss to show him how it would work, but in the end we will need a solution that can securely stream the audio with a player that lets you keep the controls in-app on the page rather than launching quicktime which even after playing the file does not return you to the apps other views.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Lol...anyway finally figured out a solution that works for me in my particular case. Since the html side of things for our application resides in a webview on iOS, thanks to phonegap, I was able to do the following.
HTML5 inline video on iPhone vs iPad/Browser
and now the player finally plays inline just like the iPad. I tested this and it works flawlessly. I also tested it without added the obj-c flag in the app code and it does not work. This means the solution I've provided only works if you are packaging you application using html and obj-c like with phonegap or Titanium etc. This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Now I can use all of jw's awesomeness and still play nice with iOS and give a great user experience to all of our members...thanks for you time and patience. As a side note the inline audio only player even works flawlessly with Android to write of of the box not java code needed to edit anything. Surprised me because I know how HLS is not really all that well supported yet on the Androids.
This is my problem. I have on my hosting an avi video file and I want that the user of my android application can display it in streaming on your smartphone.
There are two way.
1) Convert this file in mp4 format and visual it into my application with MediaPlayer
2) Control that on user's device there is Rockplayer and then to use it for display this avi file.
What the good way ?
Please look at this link. It is very good example for Android Media Streaming.
Media streaming on Android devices using the VideoView object available in the android.widget package. This widget allows audio or video playback local or global resources.
Choose option 1. You don't want to "sponsor" third-party applications such as RockPlayer when building your own app. What if the user doesn't have internet connection by the time he's trying to use your app? And he hasn't downloaded RockPlayer previously? As much as possible you want your app to be independent of other market apps, especially those you do not own.
Can someone please explain the steps I need to take in order to add a
new codec to Android?
Also, I would like the codec to be installed as part of an application
installation (or first launch) and NOT as part of a full Android OS
build.
The reason I want to do this is that I have an application that needs
to show a video of a non supported codec (HLS or TS), but I wouldn't
want to build a full blown video player - just integrate with the
existing, built-in, player.
Thanks,
Alik.
Can someone please explain the steps I need to take in order to add a new codec to Android?
Build your own firmware, or build your own media player (like VLC for Android).
Also, I would like the codec to be installed as part of an application installation (or first launch) and NOT as part of a full Android OS build.
That is not possible, unless you build your own media player.
The reason I want to do this is that I have an application that needs to show a video of a non supported codec (HLS or TS), but I wouldn't want to build a full blown video player - just integrate with the existing, built-in, player.
VLC for Android is due out (at least for some phones) shortly, so it may be able to play your format.
I think it maybe possible to add custom codec(though I have not tried) by referring to the android developer page Adding custom codec to android.
You can try out adding your codec through openMAX IL layer then call up the android media player to play it(I believe vlc has done in this way but uses its own player). The awesome player, the android default player, just fetch a list of codecs available through openMAX API and if there is a codec, it plays. So it is worth to try adding your codec during initialization of your app, and call up media player.
I am planning to port a flash player to Android OS. Presently Android is not supporting the Flash. I have looked into GNash, an open source flash player but the problem with this is that it is not supporting the latest version flash files and we can't open the youtube with GNash.
Are there any open source light-weight flash players which can be ported to Android.
EDIT: I have also tried SwfDec but even this one is not playing the videos from youtube.
Any other open source players which can play youtube videos?
Of course this could be a fun project to hack; however, you'll soon face real competition from Adobe, who are porting their own player as we speak:
http://www.google.se/search?q=flash+android
Just in case you can afford to wait.
I have used ffmpeg to convert the flv to mp4.
According to Google/OHA member engineers the problem you will have is performance on current device hardware specifically G1s..
My impression is that you will not see flash until the Dalvik VM JIT is finished developmentally...probably not until SDK 3.5 probably..
GNash website states (and my own experience confirms) that GNash actually plays most youtube videos OK. See GNash wiki.
Now Android has flash support,
maybe this can help:
http://www.synesthesia.it/playing-flash-flv-videos-in-android-applications
playing FLV on Android using flash player inside a webview