在Android中播放.m3u8 HLS实时流

Question

I am trying to achieve HLS streaming in Android.

I have setup the HLS streaming server (apache2) in Ubuntu desktop and able to play the stream using the VLC player on Desktop.

But when i try to play the stream using VLC player in Android, I am not play the video, nor I am getting any error.

If anyone has tried similar streaming, please provide your inputs.

Thanks

Answer 1

Following some further investigation, I've found the following information that can hopefully help other people get HLS streaming on Android working.

Encoding - The video encoding, and the segmentation setup can have a large impact on the Android versions that the video supports. I ended up creating a video using HandBrake, with the following settings:

MP4 File H.264; Baseline Profile; Level 3 AAC Audio; 44.1k; 128bit (Note: I found that JellyBean was a lot more picky about the audio than ICS/Honeycomb. Some audio bitrates would create videos that Jellybean would not play at all. In general Mono and low bitrate audio seemed to work better on Jellybean). Segmentation - Using the Apple MediaFileSegmenter, I found adding the "-no-floating-point-duration" and "-z none" flags allowed me to create a video that worked across Android 3.0->4.2

Gingerbread - I was unable to get Android 2.3 to work with HLS out of the box, but I did find that using the Vitamio library worked pretty well (see this question for further info)