How to develop a video player that receives video stream on wi-fi broadcasting/multicasting?

g开发者_运维知识库eneral video players connect the media server through unicast but I need a player to receive media stream using multicast/broadcast.

scenario: Media Server ---> AP --(multicast/broadcast video stream)--> player(android phone)

is there any Android SDK to support this function? or is there any solution without developing software codec and RTP stack?

James.

Here is a post about Android and multi-cast support: How to receive Multicast packets on Android

The question about a multicast video streaming protocol is a separate issue. There should be nothing Android-specific required (assuming you can get and receive multicast data is all you need from Android).

Getting the new codec to show up as a video-playing app in Android is a separate issue. See this question: How to add a new video codec to Android?