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Does RTSP live streaming just not work on Android 1.5/1.6?

My main dev phone is a Nexus 1 running 2.2. I have successfully been streaming live video to this device from a Wowza server for several weeks now.

I have now taken my application (without modifications) and put it on a Sony Ericsson Xperia running 1.6. The video will not play. I get the following errors:

MediaPlayer: Couldn't open file on client side, trying server side
...
MediaPlayer: info/warning (1/26)
PlayerDriver: Command PLAYER_INIT completed with an error or info PVMFFailure
MediaPlayer: Error:(1,-1)
VideoView: Error: 1,-1

I've been googling around, but just can't seem to get a clear answer. Does anyone know if live streaming just doesn't work on some versions of Android?

A: 

We have used RTSP Live streaming on 1.5, 1.6, and 2.1; so you should be able to get this to work; but you may have an encoding that only works on 2.2. What type of stream are you streaming?

TinC0ils  2010-07-30 04:03:29
I have a number of different streams coming in that all eventually get converted to H264 through some voodoo from another coder. I'm not in control of the streams, so I don't always know all the details on that side of things. It is though, a great comfort to me to hear that someone else has gotten it working. The documentation out there can get pretty patchy, and I couldn't find a definitive statement that it could be done.You get best answer for the pat on the head I needed. Now if only I could find out what the dang error numbers mean.
Aurora  2010-07-30 16:17:02

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