After digging here and there for some times... It turns out that it is completly possible to stream video over HTTP using MP4 muxing on Android, it is just that VLC software can't do that. So it seems there is no universal video streaming solution over 3G network with VLC as server and Android device as client :(
Summary: Flash Video/HTTP: compatible with VLC, compatible with 3G network, not compatible with all android device MP4/HTTP: not compatible with VLC, OK with 3G network, OK with all android device MP4/RTSP: OK with VLC, not compatible with all 3G network, OK with all android device Sound only/HTTP: compatible with VLC, compatible with 3G network, compatible with all android device Thierry. 2010/12/20 Thierry Legras <tleg...@gmail.com> > Hi, > > I would like to stream video files to Android device, and intend to > integrate playback in my application. > > I first tried to use flash video streaming, which works pretty nice on my > HTC Hero which integrated flash player, but now on Floyo ROM it does not > work any more. I guess HTC player is more complete than froyo 2.2 flash > support. > > Then I tried to stream with VLC software using RTSP and it appears to work > only with WiFi. On 3G, I see on the streaming PC that the stream is sent, > but nothing is displayed on the Android device, whereas it works on WiFi. > I found this very interesting page from "VLC stream & convert" developper > which seems to show that this method is hazardous. Indeed the proposed test > does not work at all on my device/operator. > http://traveldevel.com/vlc-stream-convert/streaming-over-3g > > Finally I am trying to stream over HTTP. I made it work (WiFi AND 3G) for > audio stream only, but when I try to stream audio+video, it does not work at > all (WiFi nor 3G). Of course I set the bitrate and screen size to low so it > is supposed to work at least in WiFi. I tried several combination > codec/muxer with no luck. > > So anyone knows if it is ever possible to stream video over HTTP? if yes, > any idea which codec/muxer is supposed to work? > > Or at least what is the most universal and/or recommanded way to stream > video to android device?? > > Thanks for any help, > > -- > Thierry. > -- Thierry. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
