Hi there, I'm considering having a go at a backport of Stagefright sound playback to earlier versions of Android (1.6 probably).
The goal would be to have a well-defined MediaPlayer supporting i.a. HLS (ie stagefright a la Android 3+ - so I'm looking forward to the release of the ICS source code, of course). Why? Because finding a reliable way to stream music across Android versions using the built-in MediaPlayer have proven to be difficult (at least for the music streams of the Danish National Broadcast - DR, for which I currently run a test app at https://market.android.com/details?id=dk.dr.radio.test2011 ). I'd like to publish some open source easy to use solution that others with similar needs can use. Looking at other music streaming apps, like TuneIn, I can see many have taken the approach of having a port of ffmpeg and/or other sound decoder libraries bundled as .so files. But I suppose bundling a build of the stagefright player would also be a possibility? Any advise on choosing ffmpeg vs backporting stagefright? Ive downloaded the source and looked at https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/tree/master/media/libstagefright and figured out that while Stagefrigt is probably using the sound system directly (ALSA, right?), this will not be possible from an app. I'd have to define an audiosink that sends data thru an AudioTrack. Any thougts, advice or comments on this? Thanks in advance, Jacob -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
