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

Report · Sep 11, 2012

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

Report · Jul 25, 2013

ospn2012 wrote:
You can still install Flash from the archives and also use HDS for Android.

I can do this, you can do this, but i am 100% sure that a very limited number of ordinary users will be able to do the same! you know, i only installed silverlight on my desktop when i needed to explore ryanair route map - and only since i needed that much. in case of, e.g., news or entartainment web portal - i swear at most 5% of users will go to archive and so on.

Report · Jul 25, 2013

I can see why you'd choose HLS over Flash for android.... because for all practical intents and purposes, there is no such thing as Flash on Android anymore. That doesn't make HLS performance on Android any better.

And really, suggesting that someone have the average user sideload the Flashplayer from the archives? That's a bit comical really. "Oh yeah... just go into settings and allow untrusted applications, download the APK, find it in your downloads, and install from the APK directly". You will have lost most of them at "settings", and the rest of them at "untrusted". You will also have exposed them to whatever security vulnerabilites exist in the old flashplayer version.

Report · Jul 24, 2013

i'll test JW player, thanx.

ospn2012 wrote:
Also, HTTP Live Streaming "HLS" has to be used from FMS.. hls-live hls-vod

in case i try /hls-vod i can't access .f4v files directly, server only allows m3u8... Do i have to reconfigure server somehow? video tag will not accept m3u8 as far as i get... or it should?

Report · Jul 24, 2013

ArtemSaraliyskiy wrote:
i'll test JW player, thanx.
ospn2012 wrote:
Also, HTTP Live Streaming "HLS" has to be used from FMS.. hls-live hls-vod
in case i try /hls-vod i can't access .f4v files directly, server only allows m3u8... Do i have to reconfigure server somehow? video tag will not accept m3u8 as far as i get... or it should?

You just add .f4v.m3u8 as the extension and the Just In Time Pacakager in Apache will generate the .ts segments on the fly.