webm youtube format in ICS

[vb1992]

Has anyone successfully played a youtube video in
the HTML5 video format for ICS?

Through a webview / iframe or an intent?

Format / Codec: VP8

Decoder available in: (Android 2.3.3+)

Streamable only in Android 4.0

WebM (.webm) / Matroska (.mkv, Android 4.0+)

 

[thedesolatesoul]

I think you need to add '&webm=1' to your search results for Youtube to serve WebM videos.
So far I havent seen many reports of people playing WebM on Android.
Why do you need it?

 

[vb1992]

I am trying to get youtube to play in b4a / webview
on a chinese tablet with no flash installed.

The tablet is ICS 4.0


I see this is a WEBm test video:

WebM Demo with Leonardo Dicaprio - Shot with Red Camera - YouTube

 

[thedesolatesoul]

While WebM support seems to have gone into 2.3.3 I dont see anyway to play them apart from maybe downloading the video in webm format.
Remember there are less chances to get hardware acceleration on webm videos.

 

[vb1992]

I was able to get .3gp working via rtsp on this chinese tablet
with no flash, but the quality of the youtube video is poor
since it's 176x144 size

So what do you suggest?

Mp4 via videoview? (From youtube api somehow )

The challenge here is to play a video from youtube
without flash, and I would like to play the video within
the app with videoview or webview, but I am open to
also trying it with intents to the stock video player

( I don't want to download an additional video player or browser )

This is why I am trying to get HTML5 youtube videos working

 

[thedesolatesoul]

I see.
Well, as you want to use youtube, i think its not the format that is the issue.
The Mediaplayer/VideoView should play anything thats supported (MP4/H264 Baseline should be universally playable). The main problem is that can the VideoView stream youtube.
did you try :
vv.LoadVideo("http",youtubeurl)
How did you get 3gp rtsp working? was it a youtube url?

 

[vb1992]

you can see Margaret here made some progress
I used the same rtsp:// type of link to launch the intent


http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4android-updates-questions/12064-unable-play-mp4-videoview.html

 

[thedesolatesoul]

To get the rtsp link from youtube video: Google Data API Tips: Getting RTSP Streams From the YouTube API Without Redirects

 

[vb1992]

I was pulling down the rtsp from this link:

You just replace the q=[video id]

https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=CEQouX5U0fc&max-results=1&v=2&alt=jsonc

 

[thedesolatesoul]

You can try changing the format to get something other than 3gp?