I need to play a video stored on my xampp server, as if it was a live stream through an android application.
For example: After installing my application on a smartphone, when a user A(say) makes an access to the xampp server to play the video, the video starts to play on his smartphone device. Now, suppose a user B (say) plays the same video through the server it starts from the same instance as to where User A is now watching the video. Thus, the video being played though stored, becomes live.
I need to demonstrate a concept through this application, and as I have no prior experience in Android Development, so it would be great if anyone can give me any ideas, on how can I approach this, any suggestions/sample code/alternate methods to achieve this please let me know.
Thanks for the time you put in reading my question.
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There is a website pdisk.net and whatever the video we upload from our computer to the site and share the link to view it, the videos open only in Playit android app. Only first 15 seconds can be viewed after that a screen appears showing "to play the video, install Playit app from playstore". What is happening to the videos in the backend when we upload on pdisk.net website? I think the site is owned by Playit app only. I noticed that the uploaded videos use final url a6.hentai.com...etc to stream the videos which can be streamed fully using the app only.
Can someone tell if the videos are encoded or encrypted backend and the app is made to decrypt the videos? Is such thing possible?
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In their FAQ page, they have mentioned that:
Video downloaded by Apps uses Smart Muxer technology.Smart Muxer is a
unique technology developed by PLAYit, can merge the video and audio
within seconds without any extra recoding and storage. It’s really
workable when there are some videos have no build-in audio and need to
be merged in the devices with low configurations. Due to the unique
technology, the video can be only played by PLAYit and the other
main-stream players can’t support. And videos shared to social apps
can also be opened in PLAYit.
I found one of the discussion in reddit, as mentioned by one of the users:
They encrypt the normal mp4 video in some kind of way which enables
them to limit the playback to their app.
As for documentation, there is not much available online. But found this feature request in VLC forum.
I have a plan to develop an instrument app, when we shake the android phone, it will produce "angklung" (Google it) sound.
THE PROBLEM:
How to make one android phone can share its produced sound (by shake
gesture) to the other android phones having my application?
The connection that I want to use is mobile data connection and wi-fi.
I think this person has the same problem, but I don't know how to communicate with him. Stream android to android
But there is no help..
I need solution/example/suggestion for this problem. So far I succeed to produce the "angklung" sound when it is shaken.
I have no idea how to start this application. I've searched in the internet but there is no help :(
Thanks for your help.
I would give you the suggestion of streaming the audio data to a server and beaming that to other android devices (that are registered to your app). As the question/issue you have asked are way bigger than couple of lines code, hence am pointing you to some good resources, dig those deep & good luck.
Live-stream video from one android phone to another over WiFi
Stream Live Android Audio to Server
I created a one sample app to validate filters for playing video on Chromecast.
When my device connects to Chromecast, it shows that it is connected and I'm able to play a video on Chromecast device. However, If I want to switch another video, I'm able to switch it and video plyaing also works fine.
But In this case, I want to update the UI, weather I'm playing a first video or second video? Is there any specific callback to know the mediaplayer status based on user selection on different videos.
Thanks in Advance!!
There is a lot of callbacks/listeners that report various changes that happen on the Cast side, such as OnMetadataUpdatedListener or OnStatusUpdatedListener (on Android sender side, similar ones exist on other platforms); I suggest you read our documentation and look through our sample or reference apps and then come back here with issues that you are running into, if any.
Is there anyway to bypass the blocked videos on mobile? First I tried to fire up normal youtube intent, then I used WebView (using both video and iframe tags), and lastly I changed the user agent of WebView to a desktop client but none of the above mentioned way worked. I tried rtsp to stream the video using VideoView but it would only give me a low quality 3gp video, which is what Youtube API gives.
I am running out of options. Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks!
I ran into the same thing with some of our videos on YouTube and found out that only YouTube controls if it will be allowed to show on a mobile. We never found a work-around for it other than hosting the video on our server or using Vimeo. But as it stands,YouTube has control over mobile viewing. Also do you have that video monetized? Monetizing a video on YouTube can also cause them to not allow it on mobile especially if it has any content that YouTube is saying is a Third Party or Copyright infringement. They told us we had third party content when it was all shot by us. Further reading in that problem showed that YouTube's new digital fingerprint is the main culprit for creating a new wave of problems for users trying to upload their own videos they made and own. i.e., a user tried to upload a video of his backyard with birds in it and the birds were singing. When he tried to upload it, YouTube said it was Copyrighted! How do you Copyright bird chirps everyone is now asking!
So try Vimeo or use your own server to deliver the content. Sorry I can't offer more help.
I remember being able to bypass the block as a user by asking the desktop version of the YouTube site and then watching the video with the (not updated anymore) Flash Player for Android. So maybe you could try pretending to be the Flash Player when asking for the video from your app. Maybe use a network sniffer to see what it's doing.
User "OMA" gave an answer (use 'Desktop Mode'), that sometimes works and is easy to try.
Next up is this Site (or a similar one): http://www.mobileyt.com/ which accepts an URL, then shows your Video.
A Proxy Server might assist you with access, particularly if it is a 'Country Restriction' (for Mobile, but does not mention the Country Restriction only the Mobile one). Any ADs served to that Country may be poorly received (Language / Customs); so it is blocked.
You can try a Spoofing Application for your Mobile Browser (Hint: Spoof you Browse with the Opera Browser OR use Explorer 10 on WinXP they won't be ready for that).
Combining those techniques can assist in difficult cases. You can also resort to downloading the Video and playing it with MX Player or VLC (for Mobile).
Good luck, and if at first you don't succeed ...
I have been working on an android app that streams videos live on a server using android built-in camera and anyone can watch that live stream from my website which is deployed on the server.
So can any one help me on how should i start working on my project because at present i have no direction to start with.
More specific example is:-
Like a person goes to a picnic and he wants his friends and family to see whats going on with the tour and his family can see live what he's doing live.....
There is an open-source project that does a very similar thing:
http://code.google.com/p/ipcamera-for-android/
It basically uses the LocalSocket of the camera to read the video and stream it from a webserver. You should be able to find lots of information in the source code.
If you want to stream over the internet, for everyone to see i can recommend you the service justin.tv which lets you broadcast you stream to the whole internet. If tried it, and it works very good!
However, if there's no wifi you will probably have a very laggy connection, unless you convert the video in a smaller size...