On Mar 25, 9:56 am, Rob Szumlakowski <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. I'm trying to write a light-weight HTTP server in my app to feed > dynamically generated MP3 data to the built-in Android MediaPlayer. I > am not permitted to store my content on the SD card. > > My input data is essentially of an infinite length. I tell MediaPlayer > that its data source should basically be something like "http:// > localhost/myfile.mp3". I've a simple server set up that waits for > MediaPlayer to make this request. However, MediaPlayer isn't very > cooperative. At first, it makes an HTTP GET and tries to grab the > whole file. It times out if we try and simply dump data into the > socket so we tried using the HTTP Range header to write data in > chunks. MediaPlayer doesn't like this and doesn't keep requesting the > subsequent chunks. > > Has anyone had any success streaming data directly into MediaPlayer? > Do I need to implement an RTSP or Shoutcast server instead? Am I > simply missing a critical HTTP header? What strategy should I use > here? > > Rob Szumlakowski
You can find an example in the ambient source code. http://ambientmp.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/ambientmp/ambientmp/file/696c3448b456/src/main/java/sk/baka/ambient/playerservice/StreamerServer.java >From what I gather you need to provide a file size. I think for streams the current kludge is to use a large file size and just keep restarting mediaplayer when it gets to the end. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
