I need to create an android app to display a live TV feed. the app is supposed to play live video streams from a Multicast of a DVB gateway, according to the gateway vendor it can stream out UDP or RTP. I set up vlc on my computer to stream out UDP and RTP and broke my fingers trying to get the android player to show them. after a while I found out that android only supports HTTP/S and RTSP live streams. I tried all the FFMPEG solutions and different media players with no success yet. I am not a video expert but to my understanding RTSP is an encapsulation of RTP, can my RTP feed be wrapped and streamed (even via proxy) ? does anyone know of a working UDP solution ?
thanks
I started writing a tunnel that passes a local UDP stream from port 1234, to a TCP connection on port 8888. I am testing with VLC, the UDP payload looks correct, and I am able to see the VLC init the http connection when I wait for the TCP listener to accept the connection. but still VLC wont play the resulting HTTP stream, my code:
public void Bridge()
{
//endpoints
IPEndPoint myRemoteEndpoint = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Parse("127.0.0.1"), 1234);
//communications objects
UdpClient myUdpClient = new UdpClient(myRemoteEndpoint);
TcpListener myTcpListener = new TcpListener(IPAddress.Any, 8888);
//buffer
byte[] buffer = new byte[2048];
//start tcp listener
myTcpListener.Start();
Socket tcpAcceptedSocket = myTcpListener.AcceptSocket();
while (true)
{
try
{
//get data from UDP client
buffer = myUdpClient.Receive(ref myRemoteEndpoint);
//send bytes received from UDP over TCP
tcpAcceptedSocket.Send(buffer);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
}
}
//close sockets
myUdpClient.Close();
myTcpListener.Stop();
}
any thoughts ?
Hopefully you've solved this already?
My first thought was "how do you exit that while (true)
loop?" lol
RTP was added to the Android SDK in API level 12:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/rtp/package-summary.html
Perhaps you can use android.net.rtp
to catch your streaming video. There seems to be a significant lack of tutorials in this area, so if you did/do get this working I'm sure a quick write-up could fly up the big G search results; not to mention helping out the posters of 600+ other questions on stackoverflow that come up in an "android udp rtp" search.
From the blog-o-sphere:
http://burcudogan.com/2011/06/05/android-rtp-implementation-is-based-on-udp/
And I'll toss in a plug for WebRTC because it looks promising: