Hi there, I am working through this in a private discussion with another very helpful user. Essentially it seems that at this stage the only way to get an RTP stream to work is a couple of hacks:
A) Wrap it as an RTSP stream. Basically need a client/server architecture, perhaps another little service running in the background to buffer the RTP data (perhaps write to file?) and then respond to appropriate RTSP commands. I havn't tested this but theoretically it should work. B) Write the data to two files. For example each file contains 1 second of data. Write file, close file (thus the file gets timing information and lock is released) open the file with mediaplayer and play. Meanwhile open another file to write information to that. When mediaplayer finished with file 1, get it to play file 2. Meanwhile write information to file 1 again. And keep looping. This is horribly resource intensive, but should produce an okay video (so I hear). Although syncing information for this difficult (impossible?). That's for streaming in. If your looking for information about streaming out you should see the Sipdroid code VideoCamera.java where they implement a 'write to file', 'open file and stream' method. It produces a jerky but reasonable video quality. -- "The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution" - Bertrand Russell Andy Savage Cell Phone: +852 936 34341 Skype ID: andy_savage Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/andysavage On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Jez <jeremy.a.co...@baesystems.com> wrote: > Hi Andy, > > I have the same problem too - attempting to stream an axis encoded > live video stream as h264 format and using the media player to show > the video live on an Android phone. > > Now i'm not sure if this is possible? > > > On May 25, 2:45 am, Andy Savage <a...@bluewire.net.nz> wrote: > > Thanks for your suggestion. > > > > I had considered this. The problem with this approach is that it seems > that > > the MediaPlayer requires anything passed in as a FileDescriptor to be > > seekable (this is the same problem that prevents me from substituting > > FileDescriptor for LocalSocket). In this case this means that the file > would > > have to finish recording before it can be played so that the timing > headers > > are added. > > > > The idea is to have (semi) real-time video so you can see what's going > on. > > Think video calling... except that it doesn't quite have to be as > > responsible for now. > > > > Anybody else have any ideas? > > > > -- > > "The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way > that > > will allow a solution" > > - Bertrand Russell > > > > Andy Savage > > Cell Phone: +852 936 34341 > > Skype ID: andy_savage > > Linked In:http://www.linkedin.com/in/andysavage > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:06 AM, savanevery <savanev...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > How about writing the RTP stream to a file and playing it from there? > > > > > On May 24, 2:44 am, Andy Savage <a...@bluewire.net.nz> wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I need a little bit of help from some experts out there. > > > > > > Currently I am developing an application that will stream video using > RTP > > > > and SIP. I have this mostly working with audio working fine both ways > > > using > > > > Java (and native) codecs. I can stream out video also from the camera > to > > > a > > > > windows client. > > > > > > The problem comes from when I want to receive and decode the video on > the > > > > android platform. I understand at this stage that Mediaplayer only > > > supports > > > > RTSP streams. Ironically it does what I need (by getting the SDP > > > information > > > > from using RTSP SETUP call and using that RTP/UDP information to > receive > > > the > > > > stream). But I can't seem to access this functionality, all it takes > as > > > > input is a RTSP url. If you are unfamiliar the difference between > RTSP > > > using > > > > RTP and SIP using RTP. You can read about the differences > > > > here<http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/rtsp/faq.html#rtsp_sip> > > > > . > > > > > > What I need to do is take an RTP stream encoded with h.263-1998 and > > > somehow > > > > pass it to the mediaplayer (or even a lower level api if somebody can > > > > provide an example). > > > > > > The only way I can think around this is to write another service > > > > to receive the RTP stream and provide an RTSP interface... but this > is a > > > > really ugly solution. > > > > > > I would really appreciate if anybody could offer any help with this. > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Andy Savage > > > > > > -- > > > > "The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a > way > > > that > > > > will allow a solution" > > > > - Bertrand Russell > > > > > > Andy Savage > > > > Cell Phone: +852 936 34341 > > > > Skype ID: andy_savage > > > > Linked In:http://www.linkedin.com/in/andysavage > > > > > > -- > > > > 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<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > <android-developers%2bunsubsÂcr...@googlegroups.com> > > > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > > > groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > > > -- > > > 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<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > <android-developers%2bunsubsÂcr...@googlegroups.com> > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > > -- > > 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<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > -- > 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<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. 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