Question

I am trying to play apple test stream video (.m3u8) in Android.

This is the link: http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbop/gear1/prog_index.m3u8

But I am not able to play it in Android 3.2.

This is the code I have used to play the video:

void playVideo(String url) 
{
    String  link=url;
    Log.e("url",link);
    MediaController mc = new MediaController(this); 
    mc.setMediaPlayer(videoview); 
    videoview.setMediaController(mc);
    videoview.setVideoURI(Uri.parse("http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbop/gear1/prog_index.m3u8")); 
    videoview.requestFocus(); 
    videoview.start();    
}

Please, suggest me the way to play m3u8 file in different Android versions.

Answer 1

Have you tried vitamio? It’s an extension framework that does everything (and then some) that MediaPlayer does, including m3u8 streams.