No. Trying to write an Android application that handles this will not be the solution. At least if you want to use A2DP Sink role. The fact is that Android, as you mentioned it, does not implement the API calls to BlueZ (the bluetooth stack Android uses till Jelly Bean 4.1) regarding A2DP sink capabilities. … Read more
If you’re willing to do the work in a new activity, the following will work on a device but not on the emulator: startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxLG2wtE7TM”)));
First, it wouldn’t be good practice to use a POST request for requesting data from the server. Using a GET request instead would be more suitable to your case. In addition to that, you shouldn’t be sending credentials, such as auth_key as part of the URL (i.e., using the query string), but you should rather … Read more
Use AVPlayer to stream audio/video based on http url’s. It will work fine. AVAudioPlayer is for local files. Here’s the code NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:url]; self.avAsset = [AVURLAsset URLAssetWithURL:url options:nil]; self.playerItem = [AVPlayerItem playerItemWithAsset:avAsset]; self.audioPlayer = [AVPlayer playerWithPlayerItem:playerItem]; [self.audioPlayer play];
Chrome has a bug where it will only populate xhr.responseText after a certain number of bytes has been received. There are 2 ways to get around this, Set the content type of the return to “application/octet-stream” or Send a prelude of about 2kb to prep the handler. Either of these methods should make chrome populate … Read more
There is no built-in support for playing ogg files in iOS, however, the source code for ogg compression/decompression is readily available (from xiph.com). It is fairly straightforward to compile this code for iOS and use it in an app. I had a chance to compile the libraries and have made them available: “Precompiled Ogg Vorbis … Read more
If you want to just have the OS play a video using the default player you would use an intent like this: String videoUrl = “insert url to video here”; Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); i.setData(Uri.parse(videoUrl)); startActivity(i); However if you want to create a view yourself and stream video to it, one approach is to … Read more
That’s an interesting question. I’ll try to do my best to give some general pointers. Few things to consider: 1) Web API by default buffers requests so your fear that the memory footprint might be considerable is definitely justified. You can force Web API to work with requests in a streamed mode: public class NoBufferPolicySelector … Read more
You may use fragmented MP4. A fragmented MP4 file is built a follows: moov [moof mdat]+ The moov box then only contains basic information about the tracks (how many, their type , codec initialization and so on) but no information about the samples in the track. The information about sample locations and sample sizes is … Read more
The most likely problem is your WebM file has Clusters that don’t start with a keyframe. In Chrome dev-channel builds (ie Chrome 25 or later), you can verify this with the following steps. Open chrome:media-internals in another tab. Return to the tab with your test page and reload it. When the error occurs again, switch … Read more