Playing .M3U links using Media Player

Question

I need to play .M3U urls using Media Player, but it is not working: Here is my code:

final MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
    mediaPlayer.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
    try {
        mediaPlayer.setDataSource("http://xxxxxxxxx/1.m3u");
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    try {
        mediaPlayer.prepare(); // might take long! (for buffering, etc)
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    mediaPlayer.setOnPreparedListener(new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() {

        public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
            mediaPlayer.start();
        }
    });

I have read all related question in this regards on stackoverflow but it is not help me,

Also I have tried to extract the .M3U by using this method:

    public ArrayList<String> readURLs(String url) {
    if (url == null) return null;
    ArrayList<String> allURls = new ArrayList<String>();
    try {

        URL urls = new URL(url);
        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(urls
                .openStream()));
        String str;
        while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) {
            allURls.add(str);

        }
        Toast.makeText(this, allURls + "", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        Log.d("URL", String.valueOf(allURls));
        in.close();
        return allURls;
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        return null;
    }
}

But it was not working also when I call it

readURLs ("http://xxxxxxx.m3u");

So please help me.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I would try to initialize the MediaPlayer differently:

MediaPlayer player = MediaPlayer.create(this, Uri.parse("http://xxxxxxxxx/1.m3u"));

Reference:

Why MediaPlayer throws NOT present error when creating instance of it?

Also don't forget to release the MediaPlayer once you are done with it.

player.release();

EDIT:

I explored the .m3u, but these contains other .m3u8playlists. I would recommend you to use Google's ExoPlayer instead which plays almost everything. https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer