Is There a Way to Playback Raw Audio/Video Streams in Android API's?

Question

I have a Vorbis stream that I can decode to PCM if necessary, and I have a raw h264 stream all three of which are supported by Android when in a container. Wondering if there is any way to manually feed video and audio samples into the android MediaPlayer without any container. I would imagine I would have to override methods within the MediaPlayer. Does anyone have experience with this or have an easier way to do this? I can't imagine its impossible...

Answer 1

You may be able to play the audio pcm samples (For that also, I guess you may have to put a wav header) but you may not be able to play the H264 elementary stream without a container. In the media framework (Stagefright), there are sniffers functions registered for various container formats which could tell what kind of parser need to be used and then extractor(parser) is created. I don't think that you will be able to play the H264 elementary stream from the application using the inbuilt media framework of Android.