Android streming audio/video can't stream a rtsp file?

Question

I want to stream a media file on web, and android developer website has said that MediaPlayer.setDataSource() can set the data source (file-path or http/rtsp URL) to use. But I got an error in both G1 device and emulator when streaming a rtsp url file: Command PLAYER_PREPARE completed with an error or info PVMFailure error(1, -1). Does anyone know what is this error, or anyone knows where can I get the error description (1, -1) means?

P.S. the code can work successfully when playing a audio/video file or streaming a http protocal sudio/video file, but can't stream rtsp protocal file. Is android not supported rtsp streaming?

Thanks very much.

Answer 1

I am also facing same problem. In one of the blog they say that it supports RTSP stream which satisfies the set of rules. I don't know which RTSP url supports all those rules. So what I have done is I have written my own RTSP client to get the streams and I have passed it to Player.

Answer 2

Today I got some new information, it seems that android OPENCore has some bugs in streaming, and newer version 2.04 has fixed these problems, but I can't find what version now my code is. someone said ChangeLog has version information (/external/opencore/ChangeLog) , but I can't find where this ChangeLog file is. Does anyone know where this file is and how could I update OPENCore version? Thanks

Answer 3

I don't think the emulator supports video at all, or didn't last time I checked (SDK 1.0 and 1.1) which failed with the exact same error. I'm not sure about 1.5 but from your report it sounds like it still doesn't.

Of course, I could be wrong, but when making beebPlayer, I found it was just easier to deploy straight to the device!

Answer 4

Hi Vinay, I am new to the android world. I am trying to implement video Streaming Server/client using RTSP. Can you do any help with your some running code so that I can get some idea. I will be glad. Regards, Chaudry