Streaming Youtube Videos

Question

I am writing an application to play youtube videos using streaming.

First method:

I am getting the RTSP URL to the video using GData APIs. Here is the code t

Answer 1

I've displayed YouTube videos with the following code. I hope its useful, but let me know how it might be improved.

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);
    startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, 
                  Uri.parse("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...")));
}

public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
     // TODO Auto-generated method stub
}

Answer 2

we faced a very similar problem.

At the moment I'm at the first step of my project and I'm trying to make the videoview simply works. I'm taking data from here: http://gdata.youtube.com/demo/ and I'm testing all the videos links.

RTSP 3GP videos are really really really low quality video.... and there is no way to access to mp4 (good quality) videos. I really don't know how to make it works because I think that MP4 streams are available only to premium devs....

Answer 3

Throw eye over Youtube API

I think this also use youtube app(Which you don't want)

But just refer may be you will find some key to solve it

Answer 4

The header on the video indicates it does work for Android. So, try a good video link to experiment with. Here is one that I use:

rtsp://184.72.239.149/vod/mp4:BigBuckBunny_115k.mov

I works great on Nexus and Samsung tablets.

Answer 5

If you're willing to do the work in a new activity, the following will work on a device but not on the emulator:

startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxLG2wtE7TM")));

Answer 6

I'm impressed that the dirty way works at all! If you've got a working solution, go with it. I don't think there's a clean way to get RTSP streaming working in the SDK yet.