How can I record the currently live video stream playing in media player

Question

I have googled a lot and found no success at all.Not even single point from which I can kickstart. I am using VideoView to play the video from url, successfully it's playing the video, at the same time I want to record the currently playing video. e.g: http://ip/streamname/playlist.m3u8 is the url and I watch it successfully, but I need to record the particular stream and save it so that I can watch it later. Please suggest me the solution

Answer 1

Try this code to download your video from your url and one thing remember server must support downloading from a specific byte offset

        private final int TIMEOUT_CONNECTION = 5000;//5sec
        private final int TIMEOUT_SOCKET = 30000;//30sec
        URL url = new URL("Video URL");
      //  long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
       // Log.i(TAG, "image download beginning: "+imageURL);

        //Open a connection to that URL.
        URLConnection ucon = url.openConnection();

        //this timeout affects how long it takes for the app to realize there's a //connection problem
        ucon.setReadTimeout(TIMEOUT_CONNECTION);
        ucon.setConnectTimeout(TIMEOUT_SOCKET);


        //Define InputStreams to read from the URLConnection.
        // uses 3KB download buffer
        InputStream is = ucon.getInputStream();
        BufferedInputStream inStream = new BufferedInputStream(is, 1024 * 5);
        FileOutputStream outStream = new FileOutputStream(file);
        byte[] buff = new byte[5 * 1024];

        //Read bytes (and store them) until there is nothing more to read(-1)
        int len;
        while ((len = inStream.read(buff)) != -1)
        {
            outStream.write(buff,0,len);
        }

        //clean up
        outStream.flush();
        outStream.close();
        inStream.close();

        Log.i(TAG, "download completed in "
                + ((System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime) / 1000)
                + " sec");5