Streaming Youtube Videos

Solution 1:

If you're willing to do the work in a new activity, the following will work on a device but not on the emulator:

startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxLG2wtE7TM")));

Solution 2:

Sometimes Uri.parse return "null" because cant parse an rtsp protocol instead of http protocol.

Look it with an Log in logcat Uri.parse(rtspURL).toString() and you will see nothing written. or only make Log.d("tag", Uri.parse); and the same will be return.

Try to find another way to parse (create) an Uri.

I'd try with that and run:

String urlVideo = <your rtspURL>
VideoView video = (VideoView)findViewById(R.id.VideoView01);
Log.d(tag , urlVideo);
video.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(urlVideo));
MediaController mc = new MediaController(this);
video.setMediaController(mc);
video.requestFocus();
video.start();
mc.show();

Solution 3:

I'm impressed that the dirty way works at all! If you've got a working solution, go with it. I don't think there's a clean way to get RTSP streaming working in the SDK yet.

Solution 4:

we faced a very similar problem.

At the moment I'm at the first step of my project and I'm trying to make the videoview simply works. I'm taking data from here: http://gdata.youtube.com/demo/ and I'm testing all the videos links.

RTSP 3GP videos are really really really low quality video.... and there is no way to access to mp4 (good quality) videos. I really don't know how to make it works because I think that MP4 streams are available only to premium devs....