see several videos from rtsp on android device?

Question

I just want to know if I can see several videos at once from the network using rtsp? I'm trying to do an android app similar to video surveillance and I need to see several videos at the some time in the screen, I tried to use it with MediaPlayer and after that with VideoView, but in the both cases sometimes the videos appear, sometimes give me an error that can not play one or more videos...What can I do to put it to work well?

Answer 1

What Cruceo said is correct. It's better to mux (FFmpeg is really great) all streams in one stream with a incredible resolution with a low bitrate & framerate. Then create a program to display it and make zoom in when you select a viewpoint. A other option would be to change the video streams into jpg files. This way is allot easier because you can use your web browser to display it. With your web browser you can make use of JavaScript (ProcessingJS is very easy and good at this) to make a image viewer with allot of functionality.