[android-developers] Re: multicasting in android

Can someone help with the above query?

regards,
sangram

On Feb 9, 5:06 pm, sangram <desais...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> We have enabled multicast streaming in one of our machines using VLC
> server. We use the following URL for streaming the multicast data.
> rtp://239.1.2.11:5004 & udp://239.1.2.11:1234
>
> But when we pass these links to the VideoView or mediaplayer inandroid, we get the message as "Sorry, the video can not be played".
>
> Is it the case that multicast streaming is not supported inandroid?
> (Though multicastsocket class is present in library) or are we missing
> anything?
> The links play well on the VLC client so we don't think there is any
> issue in VLC server. We are usingandroidv2.3 for development.
> We used the "androidsupported Video/audio formats" for encoding.
> Here is the brief log output:
>
> V/PlayerDriver(   95): Completed command PLAYER_SETUP
> status=PVMFSuccess
> V/PVPlayer(   95): setDataSource(rtp://239.1.2.11:5004)
> V/PVPlayer(   95): setVideoSurface(0x55be8)
> V/PVPlayer(   95): setVideoSurface(0x55b90)
> V/PVPlayer(   95): prepareAsync
> V/PVPlayer(   95):   data source = rtp://239.1.2.11:5004
> V/PlayerDriver(   95): Send player code: 3
> V/PlayerDriver(   95): handleSetDataSource
> V/PlayerDriver(   95): handleSetDataSource- scanning for extension
> V/PlayerDriver(   95): HandleInformationalEvent:
> PVMFInfoErrorHandlingStart
> V/PlayerDriver(   95): HandleInformationalEvent: type=26 UNHANDLED
> W/MediaPlayer( 5687): info/warning (1, 26)
> V/PlayerDriver(   95): CommandCompleted
> V/PlayerDriver(   95): Completed command PLAYER_SET_DATA_SOURCE
> status=PVMFErrNotSupported
> E/PlayerDriver(   95): Command PLAYER_SET_DATA_SOURCE completed with
> an error or info PVMFErrNotSupported
> E/MediaPlayer( 5687): error (1, -4)
> V/PVPlayer(   95): run_init s=-2147483648, cancelled=0
> V/PlayerDriver(   95): HandleInformationalEvent:
> PVMFInfoErrorHandlingComplete
> W/PlayerDriver(   95): PVMFInfoErrorHandlingComplete
> I/ActivityManager(  171): Displayed activity
> com.Videostreamingdemo/.VideoViewDemo: 164 ms (total 164 ms)
> I/MediaPlayer( 5687): Info (1,26)
> E/MediaPlayer( 5687): Error (1,-4)
> D/VideoView( 5687): Error: 1,-4
>
> Regards,
> Sangram

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