How I can play rtsp video from wowza server?

Question

I have a rtsp url from Wowza Media Server 2 Perpetual 2.2.4.07
How can I play it in app?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 31 '12 at 18:41

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This is how you start a media player with a data source. Keep in mind that android only supports certain audo/video codecs listed here.

MediaPlayer m = new MediaPlayer(); 
m.setDataSource("rtsp://rtsp.yourserver.com/stream.mp3"); 
m.prepare(); 
m.start();

answered May 31 '12 at 18:41

jsb

put in a video to setDataSource and it will play a video... – jsb May 31 '12 at 19:14
no it doesnt . thanks for answering – CompEng May 31 '12 at 19:16
Then your video isn't in the correct format. look http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/MediaPlayer.html it says "MediaPlayer class can be used to control playback of audio/video files and streams" So I would suggest re-encoding the video to H.264 – jsb May 31 '12 at 19:20

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 31 '12 at 18:43

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Alternatively you can use a VideoView

videoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse("rtsp://server/track.mpg"));

answered May 31 '12 at 18:43

Emmanuel Sys

I try this it opens but 1 minute later it closed and when look at logs says me : output eos has been reached – CompEng May 31 '12 at 18:54
I guess it's a problem with your video stream. – Emmanuel Sys Jun 01 '12 at 18:51
It gives me error : path = null 11-30 17:36:08.335: D/MediaPlayer(7009): Couldn't open file on client side, trying server side 11-30 17:36:08.335: E/MediaPlayer(7009): error (1, -2147483648) 11-30 17:36:08.380: E/MediaPlayer(7009): Error (1,-2147483648) – SweetWisher ツ Nov 30 '13 at 12:06

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