Since i'm a little familiar with android and video streaming, i know it's complicated to handle live video streams from device to device.
Requirement: play incoming raw h264 stream
Are there any ways beside serving rtp/rtsp to playback the stream?
VideoView needs local rtsp or http server to handle the stream and i cannot believe, that there are no other ways to simply play it.
Could be GStreamer / FFMpeg a good solution to decode the stream?
Best Answer
For this purpose, you can use the new MediaCodec API introduced in Jelly Bean.
All you have to do is set a surface when configuring, e.g.
Then, when you release the output buffer, just tell the decoder to show the frame on the surface, e.g.
If you need to get comfortable with the MediaCodec API, this tutorial was a good start for me: http://dpsm.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/android-mediacodec-decoded/