Unable to play H.264 RTP stream in Android

Question

I'm currently trying to get my Android playing a H.264 encoded video stream. I pass the URI of my RTSP server (and the respective media layer) to a VideoView instance and in Wireshark, I see the following:

Sauce           Destination      Protocol    Info
192.168.1.104   192.168.1.91     RTSP        DESCRIBE rtsp://192.168.1.91:554/mytransmitteroutput1

192.168.1.91    192.168.1.104    RTSP        Reply: RTSP/1.0 200 OK [SDP]

Funny thing is, the media player never gets further than this, never calling a SETUP etc. It just stops, on the VideoView "Can't play this video" appears and in Eclipse, I see the generic error Error (1, -247483648) so I assume the Android media player isn't happy with the SDP I'm sending back after the DESCRIBE. However, players like VLC or MXPlayer are completely satisfied and able to decode the stream.

Media format parameters in SDP

fmtp:96 profile-level-id=42C016; packetization-mode=1; sprop-parameter-sets=Z0KAHpZSgWh7IA==,aMkjUg==

Wireshark trace

Acrotygma Acrotygma · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-27T14:04:12

I'm stupid. H.264 was encoded using high profile. According to this page https://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html, Android only supports the base profile.

Unable to play H.264 RTP stream in Android

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