android - Streaming Youtube Videos

Question

I am writing an application to play youtube videos using streaming.

First method:

I am getting the RTSP URL to the video using GData APIs. Here is the code to play the RTSP url.

   VideoView mVideoView = new VideoView(this);
   setContentView(mVideoView);
   mVideoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse("rtsp://rtsp2.youtube.com/CiILENy73wIaGQkDwpjrUxOWQBMYESARFEgGUgZ2aWRlb3MM/0/0/0/video.3gp"));
   mVideoView.start();

But it throws error on both G1 device and emulator (Emulator has some firewall problem as per mailing list) Here is the error message

ERROR/PlayerDriver(35): Command PLAYER_INIT completed with an error or info PVMFFailure

Second method:

A hack way to get the path of 3gp file from http://www.youtube.com/get_video?v=&t=<>&<>.. After getting the file path and I can call setVideoURI and it plays fine. But it is a hack way to achieve the requirement. I have checked the Youtube App also, it also does the hack way to play the youtube url.(Checked with logcat)

I have tried changing from VideoView to MediaPlayer but no change in the error.

Is there a "Clean" way to do this?

Please let me know your thoughts.

Answer 1

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")));