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Android VLC Embed vs Android VideoView

=== BACKGROUND SUMMARY===
At this moment, we are using Android VideoView to perform video play black. Everything seems to be working great until we encounter Live Streaming.
VideoView tends to have 10-15 seconds delay from the live stream within a local network (LAN).
While attempting to solve this issue, we came across VLC Embed for Android. After searching on the Internet, it seems there isn't any article compare pros and cons of using Android VLC Embed vs. Android VideoView.
=== QUESTION ===
What's the advantage (pros) and disadvantage (cons) of using Android
VLC Embed vs. Android VideoView?
Is VLC Embed stable?
Anything I should be careful when switching existing VideoView to VLC?
Thank you all in advanced

My view may not be very professional but it's about what I've experienced so far.
First, Android VideoView is good since it comes with the Android SDK so it does not require external library. But this one has some limits. For example, as far as I know, it doesn't support MMS and MMSH protocols and some others I didn't quote. Which is not the case for Android VLC SDK. This library is complete and supports almost all media formats I know so far.
It just increases your apk on size, on my side that's the only disadvantage.
Is the Android VLC SDK stable? Yes it's stable and maintained by a huge community.
Anything I should be careful when switching existing VideoView to VLC?
You should keep your sources same and care about aspect ratio.

What's the advantage (pros) and disadvantage (cons) of using Android VLC Embed vs. Android VideoView?
Advantage：
More features. VLC supports almost all media formats, hardware decoding. audio tracks, subtitles, chapter are also supported.
More integrated, simpler logic. You can easily get media information and cache them. The playback engine will proactively notify state changes and events, just register player event listening.
Disadvantage:
APK file size increas. If both arm64-v8a and armeabi-v7a are supported, it will increase more than 30MB.
Multiple instances are not perfect. For example, playing 2 videos at the same time is a hassle.
Is VLC Embed stable?
Stable. Starting with VLC 2.0.x (now 3.0.x), I use the VLC library in my Android App. It runs steadily from Android 5.1 to Android 8.0. A small number of 4k h265 video playback is not normal, but can be resolved by displaying "Can not play".
Anything I should be careful when switching existing VideoView to VLC?
To use LibVLC on Android The Medialibrary(org.videolan.medialibrary) is also required. You also need to note the licenses.

VLC for Android is licensed under GPLv3
This may be a concern for you if your project uses a different license.

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I have opened many sites that use HTML5 video in the emulator ( android 2.3.3 and android 5 ) but it doesn't work: I can hear the audio but the video doesn't appear. On my smartphone ( samsung s5 with android 5 ) it works.
So why html5 video tag doesn't work well in the emulator ?

I would recommend checking if the encoding format is compatible with the emulator version and the android requirements. That can be done here:
http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html
Also remember to check beneath the initial grid for the encoding requirements.
To read more about HTML5 videos in android:
http://www.broken-links.com/2010/07/08/making-html5-video-work-on-android-phones/
Hope this helps you understand the problem better. Try and look around on his site for more of his blogs posts on the different subjects. He seems pretty competent.

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I have added the three web formats to my video tag (ogv, webm and mp4) as well as provided a fallback flash object but it seems that a lot of the Android mobile browsers still refuse to play any video.
Has anyone had a similar experience that could propose a solution?
Thanks,
gearoid.

Strange resolution with this one. I need to add the video sources in the appropriate order to get multi-device compatability. The sources need to be added to the video tag in the following order:
MP4
WebM
OGV