Android Multicast videostream

Question

I'm developing a small demo player for Video Multicast Stream.

In the current state:

I have a working UDP Multicast socket (Android) and a video Streamer (PC).
I have a Video player (MediaPlayer/VideoView) that can open HTTP/RTSP Streams.
The Video is streamed in MPEG 2 TS - I can open the video using HTTP Stream.

The problem is that I can't open the UDP Stream with the player.

Here is the code:

VideoView videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.VideoView);
MediaController mediaController = new MediaController(this);
mediaController.setAnchorView(videoView);

Uri video = Uri.parse("udp://239.192.1.31:1234");
videoView.setMediaController(mediaController);
videoView.setVideoURI(video);
videoView.start();

Note: I used tcpdump to make sure I was receiving the UDP Multicast stream.

Info on creating the socket can be found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18342534/android-udp-multicast-with-ethernet — Paul Gregoire, Aug 21 '13 at 04:47

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 05 '13 at 21:35

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The udp:// protocol is not supported in the android MediaPlayer, you have to use a library like Vitamio instead http://www.vitamio.org/en/

answered Sep 05 '13 at 21:35

Paul Gregoire

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 02 '16 at 04:30

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you can also use exoplayer . It is an open source player managed by google only. You can also extend by writing your own extractor and data source

answered Feb 02 '16 at 04:30

hkishn

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Android Multicast videostream

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