Android video stream mms and m3u8

android streaming mms m3u8
Catalin picture Catalin · Aug 15, 2011 · Viewed 10.3k times · Source

I am trying to play some video streams from mms and m3u8 inside my Android application. It seems that the MediaPlayer doesn't have support on this and from what I have read on FFMPEG it seems there isn't any easy way with that also. I am using Android 2.1 SDK. Any ideas on what I should in order to make this work? There are some apps there in the store that already do this, but I don't know how.

Answer

Cedric Fung picture Cedric Fung · Aug 15, 2011

You may try the Vitamio library, http://vitamio.org

Vitamio is a multimedia framework for all Android devices. Vitamio works like the Android's default MediaPlayer except that it includes much more powerful features. And it's absolutely free !

The following network protocols are supported for audio and video playback:

MMS
RTSP (RTP, SDP)
HTTP progressive streaming
HTTP live streaming (M3U8), for Android 2.1+

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