UDP or RTP streaming solution for android

android, rtp, rtsp, udp, video-streaming

Solution

Hopefully you've solved this already?

My first thought was "how do you exit that `while (true)` loop?" lol

RTP was added to the Android SDK in API level 12:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/rtp/package-summary.html

Perhaps you can use `android.net.rtp` to catch your streaming video. There seems to be a significant lack of tutorials in this area, so if you did/do get this working I'm sure a quick write-up could fly up the big G search results; not to mention helping out the posters of 600+ other questions on stackoverflow that come up in an "android udp rtp" search.

From the blog-o-sphere:

http://burcudogan.com/2011/06/05/android-rtp-implementation-is-based-on-udp/

And I'll toss in a plug for WebRTC because it looks promising:

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webrtc/basics/

Problem

I need to create an android app to display a live TV feed. the app is supposed to play live video streams from a Multicast of a DVB gateway, according to the gateway vendor it can stream out UDP or RTP. I set up vlc on my computer to stream out UDP and RTP and broke my fingers trying to get the android player to show them. after a while I found out that android only supports HTTP/S and RTSP live streams. I tried all the FFMPEG solutions and different media players with no success yet. I am not a video expert but to my understanding RTSP is an encapsulation of RTP, can my RTP feed be wrapped and streamed (even via proxy) ? does anyone know of a working UDP solution ? thanks I started writing a tunnel that passes a local UDP stream from port 1234, to a TCP connection on port 8888. I am testing with VLC, the UDP payload looks correct, and I am able to see the VLC init the http connection when I wait for the TCP listener to accept the connection. but still VLC wont play the resulting HTTP stream, my code: ``` public void Bridge() { //endpoints IPEndPoint myRemoteEndpoint = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Parse("127.0.0.1"), 1234); //communications objects UdpClient myUdpClient = new UdpClient(myRemoteEndpoint); TcpListener myTcpListener = new TcpListener(IPAddress.Any, 8888); //buffer byte[] buffer = new byte[2048]; //start tcp listener myTcpListener.Start(); Socket tcpAcceptedSocket = myTcpListener.AcceptSocket(); while (true) { try { //get data from UDP client buffer = myUdpClient.Receive(ref myRemoteEndpoint); //send bytes received from UDP over TCP tcpAcceptedSocket.Send(buffer); } catch (Exception ex) { Console.WriteLine(ex.Message); } } //close sockets myUdpClient.Close(); myTcpListener.Stop(); } ``` any thoughts ?

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