On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Scott Deutsch <surger...@gmail.com> wrote: > First question is. is it better to store the apps video as a resource on the > phone?
I've heard of a lot of people having problems playing videos stored as resources. I haven't tried it myself, since IMHO shipping videos in the APK is just plain too big. > If yes, what format would you recommend. You don't exactly have a ton of options: http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html > Or, would it be better to > store the videos on a web server and stream the videos to the app when > requested. Well, the third option is you download the videos to external storage at some point in time. Either that or streaming will be preferable to storing them as raw resources, IMHO. > My app is going to have lots of video's eventually. All the more reason why you can't have them as resources, since there's a 50MB APK size limit for distribution through the Android Market, and having APKs that big anyway will be a problem for a lot of Android users on 1+ year old phones. > Now, if it is better to store them on the cloud/interwebs, how do you do > streaming video with the MediaPlayer class. Hand it an RTSP or HTTP URL instead of a local file path. Make sure the video is "safe for streaming" (for MP4 files, that means the MOOV atom appears before the first MDAT atom, which you can accomplish via MP4Box -hint). > Either way, where are good tutorials on doing anyone of these solutions. I > already have the MediaPlayer class in my app and it works for playing local > stuff. I just have to make it work for streaming vids. Hand it an RTSP or HTTP URL instead of a local file path, and you're done. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 3.4 Available! -- 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
