Media player using YouTube?
Solution 1
You need to get the correct streaming(rtsp) url rather than the link to the player page you are using. You can get this programmatically using the google data api
Once you have done that you would simply replace
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Wgp3mLa_E" with "rtsp://v8.cache1.c.youtube.com/CiILENy73wIaGQnxa4t5p6BVTxMYESARFEgGUgZ2aWRlb3MM/0/0/0/video.3gp"
in your existing code and it should work.
Note: The quality of video, when streaming to your own videoview, can be very poor compared to how it looks when played on the youtube site or player app.
Solution 2
You have to rtsp links from gdata api :gdata api with this: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?&max-results=20&v=2&format=1&q="+ URLEncoder.encode(activity.criteria)
Element rsp = (Element)entry.getElementsByTagName("media:content").item(1);
String anotherurl=rsp.getAttribute("url");
In gdata api only we are getting this type of links : rtsp://v3.cache7.c.youtube.com/CiILENy73wIaGQlOCTh0GvUeYRMYDSANFEgGUgZ2aWRlb3MM/0/0/0/video.3gp
These are playing in VideoView.
My answer link :RTSP Links
Solution 3
In order to get better quality videos, I checked what these guys did. It helped me very very much!
I'm posting the link so you can checkout their project and use their code.
NikhilReddy
Updated on July 08, 2022Comments
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NikhilReddy almost 2 years
I am developing a sample application using
MediaPlayer
.By using the raw resources folder,the video can be played.But I want to play throughURL
.How can I achieve this?My code is:
VideoView videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.VideoView); MediaController mediaController = new MediaController(this); mediaController.setAnchorView(videoView); // Set video link (mp4 format ) Uri video = Uri.parse("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Wgp3mLa_E"); videoView.setMediaController(mediaController); videoView.setVideoURI(video); videoView.start();
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NikhilReddy over 12 yearscan u expand me the answer, what i should do with google data api, i was bit confused..
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Akarsh M over 10 yearsQ-GLuydiMe4 id will not open through this way ?
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Akarsh M over 10 yearsQ-GLuydiMe4 id will not open through this way ? have you aware why is it not playing ?