How to Load and Play streaming video?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
1

Does anyone now how I can play streaming video that’s hosted on my own webserver?

According to these release notes, it should be possible using the media.playVideo function:
http://developer.anscamobile.com/forum/2010/02/21/corona-11-now-shipping

The following did not work for me:
– begin example

local onComplete = function(event)
print( “video session ended” )
end
media.playVideo( “http://myserver/video/video.m4v”, true, onComplete )

–end example

Myserver is a pc in my local network. The video play on my iphone when I enter the video URL via safari.
The corona app on my iPhone immediately crashes.

Any tips? Thanks!
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2

To access external videos you need to add the “baseSource” parameter: media.RemoteSource

local onComplete = function(event)  
print( "video session ended" )  
end  
media.playVideo( "http://myserver/video/video.m4v", media.RemoteSource, true, onComplete )

The crash caused by the missing parameter is a bug that has been identified and will be fixed in an upcoming release. [import]uid: 7559 topic_id: 1417 reply_id: 3920[/import]

3

Thanks! that fixed my problems [import]uid: 7443 topic_id: 1417 reply_id: 4154[/import]

4

I’m testing this on a Android device and I’m getting an error message that it cannot play video. Is there a newer way of doing this? [import]uid: 8780 topic_id: 1417 reply_id: 53079[/import]