How to play radio live stream .asx video/x-ms-asf?

Question

Is there any 3rd-party library in Android or Java that can play radio live stream?

File extension: .asx
MIME type: video/x-ms-asf

Unfortunately, MediaPlayer does not support this format!

Here is the url of the live stream: http:// 38.96.148.75 /SunnahAudio

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EDIT:

I was able to convert .asf file to .mp3 file by using JAVE:

File source = new File("sound.asf");
File target = new File("target.mp3");
AudioAttributes audio = new AudioAttributes();
audio.setCodec("libmp3lame");
audio.setBitRate(new Integer(64000));
audio.setChannels(new Integer(1));
audio.setSamplingRate(new Integer(22050));
EncodingAttributes attrs = new EncodingAttributes();
attrs.setFormat("mp3");
attrs.setAudioAttributes(audio);
Encoder encoder = new Encoder();
encoder.encode(source, target, attrs);

However, I'm streaming the .asf online and I am not sure if I could stream the radio station, convert it to .mp3, and immediately play it!

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EDIT2:

I offer 500+ rep for anyone provides a full and working solution to play .asf live stream on Android. Basically, I want to play this radio station on Android (as xiialive can do):

http://38.96.148.75/SunnahAudio

Answer 1

I was able to successfully play your stream on Android using Vitamio library. The biggest advantage of this lib is that it's API-compatible with Android SDK, so you'll just have to change imports in your code.

One of Vitamino plugins should be present on given device to use the library. Simply open Vitamio Demo in Eclipse and take a look at how to use it. Prompting user to install Vitamio plugin is included in demo.

I was able to play your stream with this code:

import io.vov.vitamio.widget.MediaController;
import io.vov.vitamio.widget.VideoView;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class VideoViewDemo extends Activity {

    private String path = "mmsh://38.96.148.75/SunnahAudio";
    private VideoView mVideoView;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
        super.onCreate(icicle);
        setContentView(R.layout.videoview);
        mVideoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.surface_view);
        mVideoView.setVideoPath(path);
        mVideoView.setMediaController(new MediaController(this));
        mVideoView.requestFocus();
    }

}

As you can see - similar to using VideoView from Android SDK. Pretty much the only difference are imports.

The only difference to be noted is that I was unable to use http link, so I had to use the real streaming URL with mmsh protocol (opened in VLC - similar to what @vasart did).

For reference you can take a look at logs from successful playback.

Answer 2

If you open url of the stream in VLC player you can find out that it is an MMS stream using WMA codec mmsh://38.96.148.75/SunnahAudio?MSWMExt=.asf Here is an open source project aacplayer-android which uses libmms and libffmpeg to get WMA content from mms:// stream and play it.
I hope it solves your problem.