How to play/stream a video from server through http/rtsp???

[iFoneTechy]

Hello,
Currently, I am being able to play a video on iPhone simulator placed under resource folder of application and also being able to make http connection with server to transfer text data.
Now my next step is to play/stream the video on iPhone Simulator through http or rtsp placed on server.

Please guide me if any body having same experience on same problem and came out with a solution.
Also clear my one doubt can i use rtsp to stream video from server or not.

Thanks in advance...


Cheers!!!!!

[iFoneTechy]

If anybody having any idea do tell me. It might be very helpfull to findout the final solution.....
Cheers!!!!

[iFoneTechy]

I came to know we can use NSURL for making connection with server. But still having no idea how can we download or directly stream the video from server...

[superuser]

You've probably figured this out already but this plays a movie, or mp3 from a server but I am not sure it fits your definition:

-(NSURL *)movieURL
{
if (mMovieURL == nil)
{
id path = @"http://www.yourserver.com/iphone/yourmovie.m4v";
mMovieURL = [NSURL URLWithStringath];
[mMovieURL retain];
}
return mMovieURL;
}

(I got this from another post - not my code)

I have not tested this on an iPhone but only on the simulator so I can't comment about performance issues.

One thing I don't like, when playing mp3 it displays a Quicktime logo and the url of the file. I would like to be able to define an image to use as a background or minimize the instance of MPMoviePlayer so I can show and image.

My only solution thus far is to create a slideshow of images as a movie and just treat it as a movie but that increases the size from a 6Mb sound file to a 84Mb movie file... all for the sake of images.

[iFoneTechy]

Hi,
Yep its working fine.......on simulator
Thanks Alot...

[iphonejudy]

have you played video file using rtsp?

[Bucky]

Originally Posted by iphonejudy

have you played video file using rtsp?

It's not supported.

No iPhone app uses it. They use http with incremental downloads.

[rkp01_jec]

anybody having any idea ?

[rkp01_jec]

Originally Posted by Bucky

It's not supported.

No iPhone app uses it. They use http with incremental downloads.

"iTuner radio" application supports RTSP streaming (URL: Tuner2 HiFi Radio: iPhone/iPod Touch Player). So has he achieved this?

[antman872]

I really am having problems. I want a video to be displayed after a UIButton or a UIBarButtonItem is clicked. The video i have is streaming off of my dropbox. I know everything i need on that end. I just can't figure out how to play videos with the click off a button.

I have tried so many can someone tell me what i need to write in the .h, .m and delegate if needed. I have tried to make it using many methods and they all give me errors and warnings.

Please help and email me at antman3579@aol.com

[yujean]

Originally Posted by Bucky

It's not supported.

No iPhone app uses it. They use http with incremental downloads.

Oh boy ... trying to revive this thread ...

iPhone still does not support RTSP. I've been googling my *** off for some examples / tutorials on http incremental video streaming. Can anybody provide some guidance to me?

Thank you so much,

Eugene

[antman872]

Originally Posted by yujean

Oh boy ... trying to revive this thread ...

iPhone still does not support RTSP. I've been googling my *** off for some examples / tutorials on http incremental video streaming. Can anybody provide some guidance to me?

Thank you so much,

Eugene

YouTube - iPhone SDK Movie Plays from server on Click

good works for all xcode 3.2 and higher

[yujean]

Originally Posted by antman872

YouTube - iPhone SDK Movie Plays from server on Click

good works for all xcode 3.2 and higher

antman. First of all, you rule for responding so quickly.

Secondly, I'm concerned about bandwidth issues over the Edge & 3G networks, because the movies I'm trying to stream are 9mb - 25mb files.

I'm currently reading up on HTTP incremental downloading / streaming ... Is this the way I should be going?

iPhone HTTP Streaming with FFMpeg and an Open Source Segmenter

Thanks again,

Eugene

[yujean]

Originally Posted by yujean

antman. First of all, you rule for responding so quickly.

Secondly, I'm concerned about bandwidth issues over the Edge & 3G networks, because the movies I'm trying to stream are 9mb - 25mb files.

I'm currently reading up on HTTP incremental downloading / streaming ... Is this the way I should be going?

iPhone HTTP Streaming with FFMpeg and an Open Source Segmenter

Thanks again,

Eugene

So as it turns out, a lot of this incremental-downloading business has to do with chopping up the video into smaller portions and feeding it through a variable playlist ... It has little to do with using the MPMoviePlayerController (which is easy).

Thanks again,

Eugene