I am trying to stream live webcam video from Ubuntu 12.04 PC to android device with KitKat. So far I've written ffserver config file to receive ffm feed and broadcast it through a rtsp protocol. I am able to watch the stream on the other computer in the same LAN with ffplay.
How to watch the stream on the android device? The following code works well when the webcam image is streamed with vlc but it doesn't with ffmpeg:
public class MainActivity extends Activity implements MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener,
SurfaceHolder.Callback {
final static String RTSP_URL = "rtsp://192.168.1.54:4424/test.sdp";
private MediaPlayer _mediaPlayer;
private SurfaceHolder _surfaceHolder;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
// Set up a full-screen black window.
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
Window window = getWindow();
window.setFlags(
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
window.setBackgroundDrawableResource(android.R.color.black);
getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
// Configure the view that renders live video.
SurfaceView videoView =
(SurfaceView) findViewById(R.id.videoView); //where R.id.videoView is a simple SurfaceView element in the layout xml file
_surfaceHolder = videoView.getHolder();
_surfaceHolder.addCallback(this);
_surfaceHolder.setFixedSize(320, 240);
}
@Override
public void surfaceCreated(SurfaceHolder surfaceHolder) {
_mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
_mediaPlayer.setDisplay(_surfaceHolder);
Context context = getApplicationContext();
Uri source = Uri.parse(RTSP_URL);
try {
// Specify the IP camera's URL and auth headers.
_mediaPlayer.setDataSource(context, source);
// Begin the process of setting up a video stream.
_mediaPlayer.setOnPreparedListener(this);
_mediaPlayer.prepareAsync();
}
catch (Exception e) {}
}
@Override
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mediaPlayer) {
_mediaPlayer.start();
}
}
My ffserver.config file:
HTTPPort 8090
RTSPBindAddress 0.0.0.0
RTSPPort 4424
MaxBandwidth 10000
CustomLog -
<Feed feed1.ffm>
File /tmp/feed1.ffm
FileMaxSize 20M
ACL allow 127.0.0.1
</Feed>
<Stream test1.sdp>
Feed feed1.ffm
Format rtp
VideoCodec libx264
VideoSize 640x480
AVOptionVideo flags +global_header
AVOptionVideo me_range 16
AVOptionVideo qdiff 4
AVOptionVideo qmin 10
AVOptionVideo qmax 51
Noaudio
ACL allow localhost
ACL allow 192.168.0.0 192.168.255.255
</Stream>
I am starting the stream with this command: ffmpeg -f v4l2 -i /dev/video0 -c:v libx264 -b:v 600k http://localhost:8090/feed1.ffm