Streaming Youtube Videos
- by Vinay
Hi All,
I am writing an application to play the youtube videos using streaming.
First method:
I am getting the RTSP URL to the video using GData APIs.
Here is the code to play the RTSP url.
VideoView mVideoView = new VideoView(this);
setContentView(mVideoView);
mVideoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse("rtsp://rtsp2.youtube.com/CiILENy73wIaGQkDwpjrUxOWQBMYESARFEgGUgZ2aWRlb3MM/0/0/0/video.3gp"));
mVideoView.start();
But it throws error on both G1 device and emulator (Emulator has some
firewall problem as per mailing list)
Here is the error message
ERROR/PlayerDriver(35): Command PLAYER_INIT completed with an error or
info PVMFFailure
Second method:
A hack way to get the path of 3gp file from
http://www.youtube.com/get_video?v=&t=<&<..
After getting the file path and I can call setVideoURI and it plays
fine. But it is a hack way to achieve the requirement.
I have checked the Youtube App also, it also does the hack way to play
the youtube url.(Checked with logcat)
I have tried changing from VideoView to MediaPlayer but no change in the error.
Is there a "Clean" way to do this?
Please let me know your thoughts.
