Receiving video stream from an IP camera on android

Question

I have an IP camera which is streaming video in MJPEG format. Now my aim is to receive it and display it in my own custom android app. For this I have three programming alternat

Answer 1

To test 3rd option (gstreamer) you can use this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.effisoft.rpicamviewer2. You can also open gstreamer preview from your code using following code:

Intent intent = new Intent("pl.effisoft.rpicamviewer2.PREVIEW");
int camera =0;

//--------- Basic settings
intent.putExtra("full_screen", true);

intent.putExtra("name"+camera, "My pipeline name");
intent.putExtra("host"+camera, "192.168.0.1");
intent.putExtra("port"+camera, 5000);
intent.putExtra("description"+camera, "My pipeline description");
intent.putExtra("uuid"+camera, UUID.randomUUID().toString() );
intent.putExtra("aspectRatio"+camera, 1.6);
intent.putExtra("autoplay"+camera, true);

//--------- Enable advanced mode
intent.putExtra("advanced"+camera, true);   //when advanced=true, then     custom_pipeline will be played
                                        //when advanced=false, then pipeline will be generated from host, port (use only for backward compatibility with previous versions)
intent.putExtra("custom_pipeline"+camera, "videotestsrc ! warptv ! autovideosink");

//--------- Enable application extra features
intent.putExtra("extraFeaturesEnabled"+camera, false);

//--------- Add autoaudiosink to featured pipeline
intent.putExtra("extraFeaturesSoundEnabled"+camera, false);

//--------- Scale Video Stream option
intent.putExtra("extraResizeVideoEnabled"+camera, false);
intent.putExtra("width"+camera, 320);       //used only when extraResizeVideoEnabled=true
intent.putExtra("height"+camera, 200);      //used only when extraResizeVideoEnabled=true

//--------- Add plugins
ArrayList plugins = new ArrayList();
intent.putExtra("plugins"+camera, plugins);

intent.setPackage("pl.effisoft.rpicamviewer2");
startActivityForResult(intent, 0);