使用Android VideoView从VLC播放器到AVD的HTTP流

Question

I'm trying to streaming a 3gp video on android emulator (v. 2.3.3 - Eclipse IDE). I prepare a stream with VLC media player using HTTP on port 9090 without any transcoding. For testing streaming I open a new instance of VLC and connecting on my local ip (192.168.1.107:9090) I see the video without any problems. Now I try on Android using this code on onCreate(Bundle) method of my Activity class:

VideoView video = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.video);
String uri = "http://192.168.1.107:9090";
video.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(uri));
video.setMediaController(new MediaController(this));
video.requestFocus();
video.start();

but when application starts, appears this message: "Impossible to reproduce the video". Here the logcat:

D/MediaPlayer(454): Couldn't open file on client side, trying server side
E/MediaPlayer(454): error (1, -2147483648)
E/MediaPlayer(454): Error (1,-2147483648)
D/VideoView(454): Error: 1,-2147483648

I've tried also with the URI 10.0.2.2:9090 with the same result and 127.0.0.1:9090 with the same message and the error range (1, -111)

Note that the same video works fine if I play it on local:

String uri = "android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.myvideo;

I use Windows 7 x64 .

Edit: I've also tried to upload the video on the public folder of my Dropbox with the same error, but using the original link it works! Is there a problem with my local network? What does it mean the error (1,x)?

Edit2: I've started a XAMPP session on my local network and I've put the video on a folder. The ip address is something like this:

String uri = "http://192.168.1.107:8080/myfolder/myvideo.3gp";

and it works, even if this is not properly streaming, but something like active download (as the example on the web in my first edit).

Answer 1

Have you checked that your local web server delivers the video with the correct Content-Type (or mime type) set in the HTTP response header?

Your original link uses Content-Type: video/3gpp

For VLC you can specify the content or mime type on the options page. According to the documentation you have to edit the option string and add

:mime=video/3gpp