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harish
harish

Reputation: 1765

How to save streaming videos in Android by saving to SDcard?

I need to stream videos from an URL and then i want to save the video to SDcard.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 14276

Answers (2)

Stelian Iancu
Stelian Iancu

Reputation: 2492

Be careful when you prepare your videos for streaming. The documentation on the MediaPlayer class says it is accepting video streaming over HTTP only if the following 2 conditions are true:

  1. The 'moov' atom has to be before the 'mdat' atom.
  2. The clip has to be reasonably interleaved.

While the first condition is quite straightforward, about the 2nd one I couldn't find a definitive answer on what does it mean for a clip to be "reasonably interleaved".

Upvotes: 3

Samuh
Samuh

Reputation: 36484

For video streaming take a look at the following example/projects:
Audio and Video on Android- Official Documentation
Vidtry an Open Source Project by Mark Murphy
Video Streaming Example by Davanum(this might be out of date)

Saving to SDcard: I am not very sure, but once you have the video stream(abstracted as InputStream) in your code you should be able to save it on SD card using normal File I/O operations.

Upvotes: 3

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