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How to capture/record clip from Video URL in Android and save to phone


In Android, is it possible to record a short clip (ex: an arbitrary 5-10 seconds in the video) from a Video URL (ex: http://www.test.com/video.mp4)?

For example, I'd like to stream a video (from url) in an Activity and allow the ability to capture/record a short clip from it. Perhaps, allow the user to record an arbitrary Start/End time from the video. If so, is there an API to accomplish this? If not, is there an Android library to support this?

Please provide a sample code solution for this.


Solution

  • You can see this link. In short your server has to support downloading. If it does, you can try the following code:

    private final int TIMEOUT_CONNECTION = 5000; //5sec
    private final int TIMEOUT_SOCKET = 30000; //30sec
    private final int BUFFER_SIZE = 1024 * 5; // 5MB
    
    private final int TIMEOUT_CONNECTION = 5000; //5sec
    private final int TIMEOUT_SOCKET = 30000; //30sec
    private final int BUFFER_SIZE = 1024 * 5; // 5MB
    
    try {
      URL url = new URL("http://....");
    
      //Open a connection to that URL.
      URLConnection ucon = url.openConnection();
      ucon.setReadTimeout(TIMEOUT_CONNECTION);
      ucon.setConnectTimeout(TIMEOUT_SOCKET);
    
      // Define InputStreams to read from the URLConnection.
      // uses 5KB download buffer
      InputStream is = ucon.getInputStream();
      BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(is, BUFFER_SIZE);
      FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(file);
      byte[] buff = new byte[BUFFER_SIZE];
    
      int len = 0;
      while ((len = in.read(buff)) != -1)
      {
          out.write(buff,0,len);
      }
    } catch (IOException ioe) {
      // Handle the error
    } finally {
      if(in != null) {
        try {
          in.close();
        } catch (Exception e) {
          // Nothing you can do
        }
      }
      if(out != null) {
        try {
          out.flush();
          out.close();
        } catch (Exception e) {
          // Nothing you can do
        }
      }
    }
    

    If the server doesn't support downloading, there is nothing you can do.