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Playing RTSP videos with h264 output in Android

I need to stream RTSP links within a VideoView, and in the case of RTSP links with a .mov output such as rtsp://184.72.239.149/vod/mp4:BigBuckBunny_115k.mov work fine. However, this one RTSP link I got from someone confidential has a h264 output according to what VLC Player says.
TL;DR how do you implement the streaming of these type of RTSP links and if there's no clear way to code it, are there any external libraries for Android Studio that easily this because I'm kinda at my loss here.
EDIT: Changed title. Streaming can be interpreted differently as in sending RTSP videos from your Android. That's NOT what I want to accomplish. A lot of examples on GitHub are heavily focused on the SD Card Storage and sending it outward, but I am still looking a way to play RTSP videos with h.264 output in my application.

Try to use MediaPlayerSDK from VXG. That is the only one that seems to be working and is open source.
https://github.com/VideoExpertsGroup/MediaPlayerSDK
However as per some posts this can be done using libFFMPEG as well. I didnt try it, but you can give it a try.

Sending live video stream to wowza streaming engine with Android devices

I want to send live video stream from my android device to wowza streaming engine. I am using sample in this blog but I can not see the result on Test Players page.
Do I need to have a web server serving a page with a video player pointed to this video/app on wowza?

I found this little (but very useful) library with three examples: libstreaming
It works like a charm! Easy to install and develop.

Main point is to look at Wowza logs to understand if stream was successfully published or not.
Then, according to logs you will know what Application, Application instance and Stream name are used for publishing.
So you'll be able to set up any player (VLC for example) with those values and look if stream is viewable or not.

Accepted answer is ok. Libstreaming is working (kinda) but it did not fulfill my expectations so that it can be pushed to some production app. Since this question is quite old, i will share mine up-to-date solution (AS 2.1.2 - Marshmallow) which is using JavaCV. I've built boilerplate for android so it can be used in no time.
Here is url:
How to stream live video from android to Wowza via RTMP

Multicasting in android

We have enabled multicast streaming in one of our machines using VLC server. We use the following URL for streaming the multicast data.
rtp://239.1.2.11:5004 & udp://239.1.2.11:1234
But when we pass these links to the VideoView or mediaplayer in android, we get the message as "Sorry, the video can not be played".
Is it the case that multicast streaming is not supported in android? (Though multicastsocket class is present in library) or are we missing anything?
The links play well on the VLC client so we don't think there is any issue in VLC server.
We are using android v2.3 for development.

I am not at all an expert in video encoding, but I think the problem is not with the streaming, I think it is with the encoding of your videos. You should have a look at Android Supported Media Formats and make sure that your video encoding,format,resolution meet the recommendation specified there.

Mandatory to use Darwin or wowza or VLC to stream live video in android?

I want to know is it mandatory to use any of the streaming servers like Darwin,Wowza or VLC to stream an RTSP live stream video? I am receiving an RTSP link from my client and it tends to change everytime. I can successfully play it in the VLC player but on phone I cant see anything. I tried playing a sample link having .3gp extension and it worked fine. But my links dont have an extension. They look like this rtsp://122.166.229.151:1950/1346a0cf0ef7c2. Please help me.If its compulsory to use an extension or a server, I will continue working in that direction.

A streaming server (as you describe) isn't strictly necessary - as long as you can pull RTSP from whatever your source is, you should be able to see it. Most IP cameras have onboard RTSP servers (although I wouldn't put too many connections on it). If you can see it in VLC, the phone should be able to consume it as well, given that the codec used to encode is one supported by the android device (in most cases, if you're doing H.264 Baseline 3.0 with AAC, you should be good to go).
A streaming server like Wowza can make that stream available to a wider audience than pulling directly from the source device, but if you're not intending to broadcast to a wide audience, it's not required for streaming to Android devices.
Newer versions of Android (Gingerbread and later) are also able to consume Apple HTTP Live Streaming.

Windows Media Services streaming (using RSTP or HTTP) to Android

Is it possible to stream video to an Android device by using Windows Media Services? Which protocol should I use between RTSP and HTTP? Actually, I have a video file (MP4 format) at a server and I want to stream video files to an Andriod device.

Currently Android does not support adaptive streaming. I searched for some methods a while ago, but Android does not support any of them. No streaming via Windows Media Server, no support for Flash Media Server and HTTP Live Streaming also does not work. The last one would be the best solution since it does not depend on proprietary protocols - but unfortunately it uses a different container format MPEG-TS and a playlist file M3U8 which Android does not understand at the moment. There is an issue for this - you might want to stare it. ;-)
That said, I would recommend you to just upload the MP4 file to an HTTP server and play it via the HTTP url. If it doesn't play, you have to add some extra streaming information by hinting it - e.g. with MP4Box:
mp4box -hint <filename>
Have fun. :-)