How to embed VLC media player to my Android App

android video libvlc
fercis picture fercis · Feb 27, 2014 · Viewed 50.6k times · Source

Is there a way to embed VLC media player to Android Application? I have several issues:

1) I have a video streaming Camera (from RTSP) and I cannot play its stream on my regular videoview panel (Sorry this video cannot be played error). However, I installed the VLC application for Android (beta version) and I was able to play it. 2) My main objective is to port a desktop java application which uses VLC plugin to Android. I want to accomplish this task with minimum effort (I have some time issues).

Another alternative, is there a way to embed codecs used by VLC to my application? Because with my videoview, the result varies according to the format of the video. I can play some other videos streamed through RTSP on my videoview.

I search through internet and found a "libvlc" but also some notes about that libvlc for android is not complete (but those notes belong to a past time, even in stackoverflow).

Answer

Maruku picture Maruku · Mar 11, 2014

Yes, if you already have the vlc-sdk.7z (libVLC for android), here is the sample project to embedded VLC into your android apps.

If you do not have libVLC, here are the steps to build one. (After "sh compile.sh" finished, "make vlc-sdk.7z" to create the vlc-sdk.7z and unzip to the demo project.

I put the vlc-sdk.7z(only armeabi-v7a is included) here for testing.

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