How can i play different video files in android application?

Question

i am developing an android application. In my application i need to play different format video files which are coming from server. My application getting the video links from server. Those are different formats like avi,flv,mkv,mp4. I tried to played .3gp file link successfully but the remaining formats are not supported. May be android supports only .3gp. I tried a way to play the video links in web view and got failed. Please suggest me is there any way to play the avi,flv,mkv,mp4 file formats.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

A good point to start is here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/mediaplayer.html

Android should support the following codecs: H.263, H.264 AVC, MPEG-4 SP, VP8.

Maybe the videos are not correctly encoded or have just another container format? Are you trying to stream the videos?

You also should have a look at this: http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html

Answer 2

Try to use Vitamio http://www.vitamio.org/en/Download/

Or from this: https://github.com/yixia/VitamioBundle