I am developing an app. that will stream the video recorded from camera and stored as mp4 in sdcard...
I know there something called as RTSP which is used for that...
Please tell me where to start . .and is there any library that will do this for me...
I do not understand why you want to stream a local mp4 file, but maybe I misunderstood you problem. RTSP is used for live streaming, but you want to play a local mp4 file.
If you want to capture video and save it as mp4 onto a SD card, you need to use the Android MediaRecorder. Here a link to a simple example.
If you just want to playback a local mp4 file. Have a look at the Android API Demos.
These are part of the Android SDK installation and contain a good example of how to playback local media files.
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I have been searching all around the web to try to understand how to stream videos to my android app.
I learned:
That the videos must be in the HLS or MPEG-DASH format to be adaptive for streaming .
What I mean by adaptive streaming:
The kind of streaming that allows the user to change the quality while video is streaming.
What could help me do this:
The first thing should be to encode my videos into an HLS or MPEG-DASH, for that I found a service that could do this which is Bitmovin.
The second thing is to play the adaptive video, I found two ways exoplayer and Bitmovin-player.
The problem:
I made an account on bitmovin and tried to test an mp4 video to encode, but there are too many stuff there like input, output and manifest and I don't know what URL I should use to pass to the bitmovin player to play. I encoded the video but I don't know where the reference to the enocoded video is.
My question:
1) Is my approach of streaming videos correct?
2) Can someone explain which url I must pass to the player or where I can find the video that was encoded in Bitmovin cloud?
1) Is my approach of streaming videos correct?
Short answer: Yes :) Adaptive streaming is used by almost every major VoD platform out there, and a proper way to do that. Further it allows you and your viewers to either
let the player decide on its own to select the optimal quality for the given connection and device of the viewer to provide continuous playback
and the viewer can select a specific quality on their own as well, if they want to.
When creating adaptive streaming content using MPEG-DASH and/or HLS as streaming format, your output would typically consist of the following:
Video/Audio Segments
MPD Manifest, and/or HLS playlists
1) Your input file (e.g. an mp4 file) will be downloaded and splitted into segments, which are being processed by the Bitmovin encoding. Out of these, it creates the different qualities the player or your viewer can choose from later.
2) This segmented output is then transferred back to your own storage, e.g. a cloud storage like AWS Simple Storage, or Google Cloud Storage. Other output types like (S)FTP and many others can be used as well.
3) In order to play your created MPEG-DASH or HLS content, a MPD manifest and/or HLS playlist needs to be created. Those are basically an index for the player, which tells it which qualities are available and where to find them to start the playback.
2) Can someone explain which url I must pass to the player or where I can find the video that was encoded in Bitmovin cloud?
The URL you would have to provide to the player, has to point the MPD and/or HLS master playlist, that gets transferred to your storage. Bitmovin doesn't offer a hosting service for your encoded content, which is why you didn't find an URL to the manifest that is used. So you would need a storage first, where the encoding could be transferred to.
Give the getting started guide a try. Select your preferred API client. Then you will be guided step by step on how to integrate this encoding service. I hope this helps :)
To test the playback of the player you can also have a look at https://bitmovin.com/demos/stream-test and select "Use our defaults" which provide URL's to sample content for testing the player and playback.
I have an app which I want to store audio files in mp4 format in a folder of my choice.
I want to share some of them in Facebook but I dont have the facebook option while if I have a mp4 video file in my device's media library, I have full list of options and facebook, and I have the mp4 video file ready to be shared.
Why is that? Do I have to add some extra info while saving them on the first place?
Do I have to save them in main device media library?
You have to put an image or video while recording because in some way the system knows it is just an audio so even if you copy the audio mp4 to the main media library you won't see any difference
Hi I am writing a media player with the help of Media Codec and Media Extractor API. It is working fine, when I tested with some HTTP links. Then I tested it with HTTP live stream URL, it is not working.
ex: "http://mediamotiononline.ios.internapcdn.net/mediamotiononline/inapcms/CMS16042/flash/16042_adaptive2.mp4.m3u8"
I have tried to parse m3u8 file, but it is giving info of Bandwidth, resolution only. With VideoView widget these Http live stream URLs works fine. But I am using Surface to show decoded data. Anyone has any idea how to solve this problem?
this might be help you.
Download m3u8 parser from http://sourceforge.net/projects/m3u8parser/
Add it to your project either jar file or source files.
By using this parser you can get PlaylistInfo, elements.
Explore for playable .ts files in elements. Pass those ts files to your MediaExtractor. It worked for me. Hope it will work for you
too..
I have a small video clip and an audio file. The problem is how to write code to merge them into a single file. i have never written code for multimedia applications for android and don't know if the merging is possible with android media framework. Is there any third party library to do that?
Can we right a merging code in Java and call it in Android?
Please guide me through this. Thanks
You can try INDE Media for Mobile, tutorials are here: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-inde-media-pack-for-android-tutorials
It has a sample demonstating how to substitute audio track in mp4 video file by another audio track from another mp4 file. It's here: https://github.com/INDExOS/media-for-mobile/blob/master/Android/samples/effects/src/com/intel/inde/mp/effects/SubstituteAudioEffect.java
In sample app it's under Audio Effect:
I am pretty new at streaming video, so please bear with me. :)
I am trying to port an m3u8 stream over from iPhone to Android. Looking in the m3u8 feed, I found some .ts files. From what I can tell, .ts files are, themselves, wrappers that contain the video stream (Elementary Stream).
Is it possible to play a .ts file in Android? (The docs only list 3gp and mp4 as supported formats.)
Is there a way to extract the Elementary Stream and just process the video feed? If that is in 3gp or mp4, I should be ok.
Will Stagefright handle .ts? Is Stagefright even available? I read that there are/were some problems with it.
(As a further caveat, I am not getting much help from my server guys. They are pushing for a Flash player solution, including a proprietary player. They will not provide me with a 3gp or an mp4 feed, but I'm hoping I can find that in the .ts file.)
I'm open to other suggestions. Thanks for your patience with this newbie. :)
There is a standard for that called HTTP Live Streaming. Android 3.0 supports this protocol to some extent which means you can pass the URL of the m3u8 playlist to the MediaPlayer and the player should be able to stream it over HTTP. Stagefright is bundled with Android 3.0.
You can browse its source code here.
Also, this thread might interest you: it summarizes support for HTTP Live Streaming.
Android stagefright in Gingerbread and prior versions does not support playback of .ts (transport stream) or elementary stream. As you have rightly pointed out, it only supports MP4/3GP/MP3 file formats.
You can play .ts video file in android by using NDK based project. Dolphine player is best open source player for android and also supports various formats of video.
You got the .ts link from m3u file. Now you can fetch binary data from .ts file and store this binary data in file, then play this file by using video player.