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abbood
abbood

Reputation: 23558

Can android directly play Dynamic HTTP streaming using flash manifest file (.f4m)

I'm trying to make an app that plays live http streaming on android (i already did the same in iphone). The Android official tutorial shows a sample code on how to do http live streaming, which i followed: 

public class liveStream extends Activity implements OnClickListener {
    Button streamButton;
    MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = null;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_live_stream);

        streamButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.streamButton);
        streamButton.setOnClickListener(this);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_live_stream, menu);
        return true;
    }

    public void onClick(View v) {       
        String url = "http://d2233avv69kunu.cloudfront.net/hds-live/livepkgr/_definst_/liveevent/livestream.f4m"; 
        mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
        mediaPlayer.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);

        try {
            mediaPlayer.setDataSource(url);
        } catch (IllegalStateException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        try {
            mediaPlayer.prepare();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        mediaPlayer.start();
    }
}

thing is I keep on getting an IOException when i try to prepare the player.. I did some research and it appears that I will need to play this off a flash client from my android? If that's so, how can I play live http streaming directly without the third party flash player? Similar to iphone

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3902

Answers (2)

CaNerdIan
CaNerdIan

Reputation: 118

Most android devices from 2.3 on natively support Apple's HLS in some form or another . There are some devices where you'll need to use httplive://.../playlist.m3u8 instead up http://, but as far as I can tell, most devices support an m3u8 URL with just http, especially once you get past Android 3.0

Upvotes: 0

Androider
Androider

Reputation: 803

Android doesn't support flash manifest file (.f4m) live streaming.

Android supported format for streaming

Upvotes: 2

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