My tutorial is meant only for streaming audio files…and was only tested with .mp3 files. I wrote that code awhile ago and haven’t updated it since Android v2.0.

Videos play fine using Android’s built-in streaming video player as you saw using the MediaPlayerDemo. Just make sure you use a media format supported by Android. Getting the media files formatted correctly can be rather tricky which is why I recommend starting with the .3gp file I mentioned earlier.

If you’re having problems with .mp4, reformat to .3gp using Quicktime Pro. I had great success with it…though it does cost about $40. I think you can try the demo.

I have sent my code in the comment yesterday. but it is not get published I guess.
Thanks for your immediate reply.

Ketan B

Can you please send me your above code modified for video on my e-mail id(ketub4@gmail.com). I am using Your url mentioned above but media player starts and after 1-2 sec is stops playing but downloading completes in the background.

The above mentioned url is working properly in MediaPlayerDemo_video in api demos but it stucks when i am trying to play mp4 file with large size say 13 to 15 MB. I have added header using MP4Box to mp4 file so that it can play as per Tmac’s comment above.

Please help me… its very critical time for me….

Thanks in advance…..

Ketan B

Nice tutorial and very well explained.

I am new to android development and I have tried your code. it working fine on my device. but i want to stream video. I have made some changes to your code(added surface view) but not able to get it correct.

current output: first file gets fully loaded and then start playing instead of parallel downloading and playing.

Please please help me or if anyone has above code converted for video. please post it or email me(ketub4@gmail.com)

Thanks in advace.

Ketan B

private MediaPlayer createMediaPlayer(File mediaFile)
throws IOException {
MediaPlayer mPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
mPlayer.setOnErrorListener(
new MediaPlayer.OnErrorListener() {
public boolean onError(MediaPlayer mp, int what, int extra) {
Log.e(getClass().getName(), “Error in MediaPlayer: (” + what +”) with extra (” +extra +”)” );
return false;
}
});

// It appears that for security/permission reasons, it is better to pass a FileDescriptor rather than a direct path to the File.
// Also I have seen errors such as “PVMFErrNotSupported” and “Prepare failed.: status=0×1″ if a file path String is passed to
// setDataSource(). So unless otherwise noted, we use a FileDescriptor here.
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(mediaFile);
mPlayer.setDataSource(fis.getFD());
mPlayer.setDisplay(surfaceHolder);
mPlayer.prepare();
surfaceHolder.setFixedSize(400, 300);
return mPlayer;
}

4) In the method “transferBufferToMediaPlayer()” I did not call the method createMediaPlayer(File file) instead I wrote a new method appendNewDownloadData(File file) as shown below:

private void appendNewDownloadData(File bufferedFile)
throws IOException {
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(bufferedFile);
mediaPlayer.reset();
mediaPlayer.setDataSource(fis.getFD());
mediaPlayer.prepare();
}

Summary of what I have added to the code:
1) Added a SurfaceView to the XML
2) Got a SurfaceHolder from the SurfaceView
3) Used the api’s :
MediaPlayer.setDisplay(SurfaceHolder)
SurfaceHolder.setFixedSize(int, int)

Could any help me achieve this video Display. Thanks in advance.

@ Biosopher: Do you have any updated tutorial for video Streaming???

Cheers,
Praveen.