I 'm developing a video streaming android application on HTC Tattoo. I 've Lighttpd server at my server side which i use to stream videos to a web site.
On Android , Do I need to enable any module in Lighttpd server?
Thanks
Actually, no... the only thing you have to make sure is that the video you are serving is encoded with one of this formats: http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html
Take a look also at Darwin Streaming Server. Perhaps it will be good option for mobile streaming.
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I'm developing an android application to stream a live TV in Tunisia.
They have their server for streaming on the Web. they use Flash Media Server and rtmp protocol for streaming.
So, I have a problem with some devices that don't support flash media player.
Can you please help me to find a solution like convert rtmp to rtsp or any other solution
Thanks for help.
your question is very vague. If you need to install flash on some devices on which it isn't installed, then you have to do it manually via the
adb install your_path/flash.apk
As you know that flash isn't on the app store any more. The link to download the apk is this. Go to that page and download the apk.
Secondly if you want to know about RTMP(Real Time Messaging Protocol) and RTSP(Real Time Streaming Protocol) then this link will help you.
I'm trying to make an android app that sends live video from the phone camera to wowza media server using eclipse and android sdk.I tried to use the spydroid ip camera on code.google (this is the link https://code.google.com/p/spydroid-ipcamera/) but i could'nt know exactly what to change in this app to make it stream to my localhost wowza server.The tutorial that comes with spydroid is not clear(this is the link to the tutorial:https://code.google.com/p/spydroid-ipcamera/issues/detail?id=2) .Can you help me please ?
For all of you who still looking for answer - try looking at fyhertz lib. I think it's easy to apply and stable enough
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.
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. :-)
I'm trying to install a Wowza server on my Linux machine to enable the RTSP streaming for my Android application.
On Android client side what sort of changes do I need to make in my application? I'm using Videoview to simply play a video file stored locally.
Now I want to get the video content get streamed through the server that I've installed. If necessary I can move to any other streaming server as right now I'm doing a research on streaming servers.
For rtsp streaming you can also try following servers:
Darwin Streaming Server - linux package is available
Windows Media Services - can be installed on Windows Server Trial
VLC - standalone application
For testing purposes of your application i would also recommend you to use existing mobile video services like:
m.youtube.tv
m.wp.tv
You can extract video links from those sites and use them to test your application.
Try to follow Android ApiDemos, you can find video streaming player example at:
...android-sdk-windows\platforms\android-x\samples\ApiDemos\src\com\example\android\apis\media\MediaPlayerDemo_Video.java
VLC+Android Owns.
I used the following one-liner to stream video of our kittens to our cell phones.
We used the launchRTSP free app to leverage the built-in RTSP viewing capabilities of Android, to access the URL over the internet.
You may want to tweak the frame rate and such. As shown below, it's perfect for webcam streaming.
vlc -vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv -I dummy v4l2://:vdev=/dev/video:width=640:height=480:fps=2 --sout "#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,fps=5,vb=800,acodec=mpga,samplerate=8000,ab=64,deinterlace,channels=1,sfilter='mosaic:marq{marquee=%m-%d-%Y_%H:%M:%S,size=16,color=16711680,position=5,opacity=64}'}:rtp{sdp=rtsp://0.0.0.0:5858/kittens.sdp}"
WCS4 server can deliver WebRTC stream as RTSP.
So you can send WebRTC live stream from Android or desktop Chrome/FF browser and then connnect to this stream via VLC or Android by RTSP.