I have to stream and download video files from a server and show it in VideoView, well thanks to google, VV doesn't support my requirement naturally so this is what I have done:
1-create a HTTP proxy using NanoHTTPD and start downloading a file from server
2-start VideoView and set uri to my HTTP proxy
3-inside server() in my proxy I started to response to VideoView same as a real server with appropriate response headers ( I mean content-length/content-range with 206 response)
but the problem starts when VideoView, it reads like 300kb of video file properly and after that it requests from 619kb or something. I don't have any clue why would VV wants to hop from 300,000bytes and suddenly jump to 619,000bytes , and after 10 attempts it will respond me with ERROR -1004 inside c++ code of VideoView which I couldn't find any clue what is that.
following is my complete solution. any help is appreciated as I became clueless about VideoView and it's bizarre behavior!!!
Note : I have fixed the size of file deliberately, nothing wrong with it.
package com.example.videoBuffer2;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.MediaController;
import android.widget.VideoView;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Map;
public class MyActivity extends Activity {
/**
* Called when the activity is first created.
*/
Button btn;
VideoView videoView;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
btn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button);
videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.videoView);
MediaController mediaController = new
MediaController(this);
videoView.setMediaController(mediaController);
final VideoStreamServer server = new VideoStreamServer(9090);
btn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
try {
server.start();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
videoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse("http://127.0.0.1:9090/1.mp4"));
videoView.requestFocus();
videoView.start();
}
});
}
public class VideoStreamServer extends NanoHTTPD
{
public VideoStreamServer(int port) {
super(port);
}
@Override
public Response serve(String uri, Method method, Map<String, String> headers, Map<String, String> parms, Map<String, String> files) {
//range=bytes=619814-
long range;
if (headers.containsKey("range"))
{
String contentRange = headers.get("range");
range = Integer.parseInt(contentRange.substring(contentRange.indexOf("=") + 1, contentRange.indexOf("-")));
}
else
range = 0;
byte[] buffer;
int constantLength = 256000;
long bufLength=0;
boolean isLastPart=false;
try {
RandomAccessFile ff =new RandomAccessFile(new File("/mnt/sdcard","1.mp4"),"rw" );
long remainingChunk = ff.length() - range; //remaining
if (remainingChunk < constantLength){
bufLength= remainingChunk; //means last part
isLastPart = true;
}
else
bufLength = constantLength;
if (range !=0)
ff.seek(range);
buffer= new byte[(int)bufLength];
ff.read(buffer);
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
buffer = new byte[0];
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
buffer = new byte[0];
}
Response response;
// if (isLastPart)
// response = new Response(Response.Status.OK,"video/mp4",new ByteArrayInputStream(buffer));
// else
response = new Response(Response.Status.PARTIAL_CONTENT,"video/mp4",new ByteArrayInputStream(buffer));
response.addHeader("Content-Length","891064");
response.addHeader("Content-Range",String.format("bytes %s-%s/%s", range,(range+bufLength),"891064"));
Log.e("SERVER","Inside server sent " + String.format("bytes %s-%s/%s", range,(range+bufLength),"891064"));
return response;
}
}
}
Finally I found out my problem the problem wasn't with the code but the media I have used wasn't standard according to google's doc.
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