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ANDROID MEDIA PLAYER TUTORIAL HOW TO

Moving on lets have a look at the layout I am going to use for this Android VideoView Example With YouTube Playback :

MPEG-TS (.ts, AAC audio only, not seekable, Android 3.0+).

In android only the file types listed below can be played with Android VideoView class:

Now since we are using a wrapper there are some limitations regarding the types of supported file types. Yes the fact is Android VideoView is just a wrapper around the MediaPlayer class of android. It gives the user an abstraction from JNI code, i.e. In short its an Android widget which eases the process of video playback on device. Lets start off with an intro of Android VideoView. Android VideoView Example With YouTube Playback.But if you wish to stream high quality YouTube videos have a look on my tutorial for YouTube API in my complete series on streaming videos: In my app I didn’t a needed high quality YouTube streaming hence I used Android VideoView class. One of the main drawbacks for using Android VideoView for streaming YouTube videos, is that it streams a very low quality video with a resolution of 176 x 144 px, in 3gp format.

ANDROID MEDIA PLAYER TUTORIAL HOW TO

In this Android VideoView Example With YouTube Playback tutorial I would show how to play a streaming You Tube video in an Android device, also I would show how to place a local video. Although if we have to view local videos that are present in our device or app, still the same Android VideoView class can can be used. So I thought of using Android VideoView class for it.

At Truiton I was developing another app in which the requirement was to view a YouTube video inside my app.