[Paranoid_Android]

Hi everyone.
I've a mobile that supports streaming via RTSP.
I want to do streaming via bluetooth. I wrote a midlet that get the InputStream from a rfcomm connection and I wrote a custom DataSource to handle the stream.
Everything works fine except that if I create the player with Manager.createPlayer(datasource) the player read the entire stream before playing even if i've written the custom datasource.
That's not what I want.I want the player to begin playing before the end..i want streaming.
What have I to do? Have I to write also a Player or there's a way to use the same specific player that the mobile uses for RTSP??


Please help me.Thank you.
Paranoid Android

[peterblazejewicz]

hi,

from Java Developer Lib nokia doc:

Content buffering
For non-streamable media, the whole content is loaded into a buffer when a player is created using InputStream or using the HTTP or HTTPS protocols. When a player is created using ‘file’ or the RTSP protocol, the whole content is not buffered but played directly from the source.

Streaming
RTSP

The implementation supports Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP). RTSP player can be created by using the Manager.createPlayer method with the locator starting "rtsp://".

A RTSP network access point must be set from RealPlayer, or Player.prefetch throws MediaException with the error code -39. RTSP connections always use the default access point set in Real Player. Depending on the product and operator configuration, a default access point may be set automatically.

A 3G network connection is recommended to achieve smooth streaming

The playable content types can be queried dynamically by calling Manager.getSupportedContentTypes( "rtsp" ).

doesn't it mean that with current j2me implementation on nokia phones we cannot stream from byte input stream and we are forced to use either "file" or rtsp protocols?

hth,
regards,
Peter

[Paranoid_Android]

Yes. I knew it already. But i thought that writing a custom datasource for the stream you want to handle can help.
But now I'm afraid that it doesn't depend only on the datasource but also on the player.
I mean that maybe,even if i've a custom datasource for my stream,i cannot stream if I don't use an appropriate player implementation that doesn't buffer but that streams directly.
In this case I've wasted time writing a custom datasource.

It's bad that there isn't a way to stream what I want to stream and not only rtsp streams or streams coming from a FileConnection.:(
An idea is to write a custom player,extending the BasicPlayer but I think it's pretty hard to do and I don't even know where to start :S
Is there anyone that knows how to achieve that??

Thank you.