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Mr_Dave
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September 11, 2012
Question

live stream to android devices? shouldn't be this difficult.

  • September 11, 2012
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Why doesn't Adobe post a simple tutorial on how to stream live video from FMS 4.5 to Android device? The developer center has a tutorial series that hasn't been updated in years. The Part 8: Streaming to Android Devices (to Come) hasn't been updated in 1.5 years. The server is useless if we can't watch video on Android devices. Surely someone out there has successfully streamed live video to an Android device and can explain how to do it?

Do we need to create an Android Air App to accomplish this?

Thanks for any help!

Dave

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    Anonymous
    July 24, 2013

    almost a year passed, anything changed? I have a very simpla task: support non-flash playback in android browser for vod and live - is there any solution? 

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    rjp421
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    July 24, 2013

    Sublime HTML5 player can play live video via RTMPT (rtmp over http tunnel), i believe.

    http://docs.sublimevideo.net/player-faq#streaming-protocols-support

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    Anonymous
    July 24, 2013

    almost a year passed, anything changed? I have a very simpla task: support non-flash playback in android browser for vod and live - is there any solution?

    You can use JW Player via HTML5 and stream HLS over Flash, or HLS over HTML5. Works on all androids, except on some there are variations in browser configuration to get it to work.

    Also, HTTP Live Streaming "HLS" has to be used from FMS..  hls-live  hls-vod

    Has to be a h264/aac file.   .f4f, .f4v, mp4, etc..

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    Anonymous
    September 12, 2012

    Yeah, Android is in a bit of a tough state right now when it comes to FMS.

    With Flashplayer gone, that's not really a viable target for Android, so that pretty much rules out RTMP unless you plan to distribute an Air app.

    Later versions of Android (some 2.3 devices, some 3.x devices, and most 4.x devices) support HLS, but the implementation is terrible, playback is somewhat unreliable, and feedback to the user is nonexistant.

    The most reliable way to serve a stream to Android is RTSP (supported in all versions after 1.6), but unfortunately, FMS doesn't support RTSP.

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    Mr_DaveAuthor
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    September 12, 2012

    Are there any pre-built AIR apps for Android that will stream live video from FMS? I'm not being lazy just never used AIR before and really need to get live streams working for Android.

    Any good tutorials on building a simple android air app that streams live video?

    Android devices are everywhere it seems like Adobe would've addressed this limitation of FMS regarding Android.

    Thanks Guys!

    Dave

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    Adobe Employee
    SE_0208
    Adobe Employee
    September 12, 2012

    Link which you might find helpful:

    http://www.fabiobiondi.com/blog/2011/05/open-source-media-framework-osmf-flex-45-air-for-android/

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    Adobe Employee
    SE_0208
    Adobe Employee
    September 12, 2012

    If you have any android device and if you had installed flash player before (when it was available) - you should have been able to stream RTMP/HDS streams via any hosted OSMF based SWF client. Now that Flash Support is officially no more available, you would have to build AIR app.

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