How to embed VLC media player to my Android App

Question

Is there a way to embed VLC media player to Android Application? I have several issues:

1) I have a video streaming Camera (from RTSP) and I cannot play its stream o

Answer 1

in build.gradle:

allprojects {
repositories {
    google()
    jcenter()
    maven {
        url 'https://jitpack.io'
    }
    maven {
        url "https://dl.bintray.com/videolan/Android"
    }
}

}

in app\build.gradle:

implementation "org.videolan.android:libvlc-all:3.1.12"

in activity_camera.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="@android:color/background_dark"
    android:keepScreenOn="true"
    tools:context=".ui.main.cameras.CameraActivity">

    <org.videolan.libvlc.util.VLCVideoLayout
        android:id="@+id/videoLayout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:fitsSystemWindows="false" />

</FrameLayout>

in CameraActivity.java

import android.net.Uri
import android.os.Bundle
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity
import androidx.navigation.navArgs
import com.android.forum.R
import kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.activity_camera.*
import org.videolan.libvlc.LibVLC
import org.videolan.libvlc.Media
import org.videolan.libvlc.MediaPlayer
import java.io.IOException
import java.util.*

private const val USE_TEXTURE_VIEW = false
private const val ENABLE_SUBTITLES = true

class CameraActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

    private var mLibVLC: LibVLC? = null
    private var mMediaPlayer: MediaPlayer? = null

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_camera)
        mLibVLC = LibVLC(this, ArrayList<String>().apply {
            add("--no-drop-late-frames")
            add("--no-skip-frames")
            add("--rtsp-tcp")
            add("-vvv")
        })
        mMediaPlayer = MediaPlayer(mLibVLC)
    }

    override fun onStart() {
        super.onStart()
        mMediaPlayer?.attachViews(videoLayout, null, ENABLE_SUBTITLES, USE_TEXTURE_VIEW)

        try {
            val name = "login";
            val password = "password";
            val cameraUrl = "100.00.00.01:9982";
            val rtspUrl = "rtsp://" + name + ":" + password + "@" + cameraUrl
            val httpUrl = "https://archive.org/download/Popeye_forPresident/Popeye_forPresident_512kb.mp4"
            val uri = Uri.parse(httpUrl) // ..whatever you want url...or even file fromm asset
            
            Media(mLibVLC, uri).apply {
                setHWDecoderEnabled(true, false);
                addOption(":network-caching=150");
                addOption(":clock-jitter=0");
                addOption(":clock-synchro=0");
                mMediaPlayer?.media = this

            }.release()

            mMediaPlayer?.play()

        } catch (e: IOException) {
            e.printStackTrace()
        }
    }

    override fun onStop() {
        super.onStop()
        mMediaPlayer?.stop()
        mMediaPlayer?.detachViews()
    }

    override fun onDestroy() {
        super.onDestroy()
        mMediaPlayer?.release()
        mLibVLC?.release()
    }
}

p.s. about rtsp, in my case it works in 9982 port only(in link: rtsp://login:password@100.00.00.01:9982 while in IE link looks like: http://100.00.00.01:9981)