Streaming Video From Android

Question

I'm trying to stream video from the Android phone, which should be watched in an mediaplayer. I've been looking at http://www.mattakis.com/blog/kisg/20090708/broadcasting-video-with-android-without-writing-to-the-file-system which seems to be a dead end since it send the raw file data, and not a streamable format.

Then I tried using some code from SipDroid, more specific; parts of VideoCamera.java, RtpPacket.java and RtpSocket.java, which gives a stream on UDP, however these is not playable in i.e. mplayer(can't detect the codec). Wireshark tells that it is a UDP packet and not a RTP packet so something might be missing?

I'm kind'a stuck, have you any suggestions how to get past this bump?

Solution

Right click on the packet in Wireshark and select the decode as option. Then select rtp. Now you can see RTP packets in Wireshark.

Comments

[Pritam]

Did you get any solution on this problem ?

[Stevy888]

What URI are you trying to stream from? The media player will only be able to stream from files using certain protocols

[Marcus Wolschon]

Not a solution. The issue is "stream video FROM the Android phone", not TO the Android phone.