how to play video or live streams on web page for android webkit

[bin_ren]

hi,

i am new to media stream and wowza media server.

i have a web application which is browsed by webkit on android phones, i wanna play some video or live streams from wowza media server on one of the web page of the app.

Or the way may be similar to qik or justin.tv on android phones.

If anyone has done similar projects, would u pls tell how to do it?

thanks in advance!

[Andrew_Kennedy]

See this thread of someone describing it working

Android adventures

I have installed the AAC plugin into my FMLE machine and am now encoding streams that I think should be compatible with Android and Blackberry devices. I can view the stream via VLC on my Linux machine using RTSP, but so far no-go on Android. The stream is visible at rtsp://184.73.200.27:1935/iphone/teststream.stream, or at http://catfolks.net/video/m2.html. I’m currently encoding h.264 Baseline, level 3.0, 15 fps, 320x240, 200 Kbps video, AAC stereo, 44100 Hz, 96 Kbps. My Android device is a…

In summary I think you need to use H264 video and AAC+ audio for it to work, so this would be for VOD and Live.

Shamrock

[Richard_Lanham]

I’m not sure about RTSP and HTML5 video tag.

Take a look at the Mobile Troubleshooting guide:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-troubleshoot-rtsp-rtp-playback

See step #3 of this guide for setting up Wowza application for RTSP streaming.

Richard

[Ian_Beyer]

On recent versions of Android, you should be able to use the HTML5 Video Tag with an RTSP source.

http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_video.asp

[bin_ren]

On recent versions of Android, you should be able to use the HTML5 Video Tag with an RTSP source.

http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_video.asp

i tried to user the ‘

what’s the problem i hv? Should i install a particular video player on the android mobile device?