How to play video Using Url On Android?

I am trying to play videos that are streaming from the Internet using Android MediaPlayer. When I use normal video URLs, it works fine but when I use YouTube URLs, it doesn't work. What is a solution to this?

• This is my code  and when i tried to used rtsp it throws video server died error and error(100,0) and error (1, -2147483648).                                          MediaPlayer mediaPlayer; SurfaceHolder surfaceHolder; SurfaceView playerSurfaceView; //String videoSrc = "http://rtsp//r3---sn-a5m7zu7s.c.youtube.com/CiILENy73wIaGQnZtkPljfg7OhMYDSANFEgGUgZ2aWRlb3MM/0/0/0/video.3gp"; String videoSrc ="http://oneshot.qualcomm.com/webAR/content/strawberryfields_H264_AAC.mp4"; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); playerSurfaceView = (SurfaceView) findViewById(http://r.id/.playersurface); surfaceHolder = playerSurfaceView.getHolder(); surfaceHolder.addCallback(this); } @Override public void surfaceChanged(SurfaceHolder arg0, int arg1, int arg2, int arg3) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub } @Override public void surfaceCreated(SurfaceHolder arg0) { try { mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer(); mediaPlayer.setDisplay(surfaceHolder); mediaPlayer.setDataSource(videoSrc); mediaPlayer.prepare(); mediaPlayer.setOnPreparedListener(this); mediaPlayer.setOnBufferingUpdateListener(this); mediaPlayer.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC); mediaPlayer.setOnErrorListener(this); } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } catch (SecurityException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IllegalStateException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } } @Override public void surfaceDestroyed(SurfaceHolder arg0) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub } @Override public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) { mediaPlayer.start(); } @Override public void onBufferingUpdate(MediaPlayer mp, int percent) { mp = this.mediaPlayer; percent = 90; } @Override public boolean onError(MediaPlayer arg0, int arg1, int arg2) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub return true; } }

• Answer:

  My guess would be that YouTube is iffy about letting anybody stream any video without permission. See, the videos on YouTube are not public domain, there are restrictions - by country, by age, by platform (some videos for example, will not play on mobiles). And to enforce these rules, YouTube may not allow any random user to stream videos by URL. I'd advise you to use the YouTube Android API instead, that should work better. https://developers.google.com/youtube/android/player/