使用Wowza Server在Android中进行实时视频广播

Question

I have tried broadcasting videos in Android app through Wowza server and it works pretty well with this demo of javaCV.

But the only problem with this is that it uses flv file format to broadcast on Wowza server. It uses FFmpegFrameRecorder to broadcast live video to wowza server (not VOD). To set format of the video broadcasted at server, it uses following method:

recorder.setFormat("flv");

So the main problem with this method is that when I use other formats, it doesn't work. For Eg:

recorder.setFormat("mpeg"); //or something like mov, etc

Please suggest a way to broadcast video from Android device to wowza server with any format other than flv. Please provide any links or tutorials with which I can start.

Thanks in advance.

Edit: I am able to play only audio while streaming vlc video format in Android and iOS devices.

Answer 1

Your issue is not container, but protocol. For live streaming, your best options are RTMP, RTP/RTSP. RTMP is essentially FLV with VCR style commands (play pause stop). There is no streaming protocol for MP4, except HTTP. and this would require you to produce a new mp4 ever few seconds and reassemble server side.

Im not sure you FLV/RTMP is off limits to you, because it probably is the best. But next I would suggest RTSP, and maybe WebRTC.