# Android play video **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [January 18, 2011, 6:43am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/android-play-video/35972 "2011-01-18T06:43:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Imre\_Tokai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@Imre\_Tokai](https://community.wowza.com/u/Imre_Tokai)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 6:43am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/android-play-video/35972/1 "2011-01-18T06:43:33Z")
For Android platform, I found some guidelines on [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-troubleshoot-rtsp-rtp-playback](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-troubleshoot-rtsp-rtp-playback) and videos on [https://www.wowza.com/mobile.html](https://www.wowza.com/mobile.html) On Mac, I work with Eclipse(simulator) + HTC WildFire When I put in my code, movie play doesn’t work href=“rtsp://184.72.239.149/vod/mp4:BigBuckBunny\_175k.mov” rel=“external” Application Error: The protocol is not supported. (rtsp://184.72.239.149/vod/mp4:BigBuckBunny\_175.mov) But this works href=“[http://www.google.com](http://www.google.com)” rel=“external” Also, when I input to device’s browser rtsp://184.72.239.149/vod/mp4:BigBuckBunny\_175k.mov it works Do you have any idea how to play movie from code on Android? Regards ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_Beyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e99b99/32.png) [@Ian\_Beyer](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ian_Beyer)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 9:18am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/android-play-video/35972/2 "2011-01-18T09:18:46Z")
Are you using the Android emulator? We’ve had several people report that streaming doesn’t work on the emulator. My suspicion is that the emulator doesn’t emulate the H.264 hardware decoder that would be found on a hardware device. -Ian ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_Beyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e99b99/32.png) [@Ian\_Beyer](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ian_Beyer)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/android-play-video/35972/3 "2011-01-18T13:46:37Z")
Are you going over Wi-Fi or your carrier’s OTA network? ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_Beyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e99b99/32.png) [@Ian\_Beyer](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ian_Beyer)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 1:51pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/android-play-video/35972/4 "2011-01-18T13:51:21Z")
for what it’s worth, it comes up great on my Sprint EVO. So it looks like your Wowza configuration is good. It works with the following MRLs: rtsp://184.72.239.149/vod/mp4:BigBuckBunny\_175k.mov rtsp://184.72.239.149/vod/BigBuckBunny\_175k.mov rtsp://184.72.239.149:1935/vod/mp4:BigBuckBunny\_175k.mov rtsp://184.72.239.149:1935/vod/BigBuckBunny\_175k.mov ---
**Author:** ![Imre\_Tokai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@Imre\_Tokai](https://community.wowza.com/u/Imre_Tokai)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 7:22am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/android-play-video/35972/5 "2011-01-18T07:22:44Z")
Thanks Ian, but I use my real phone: HTC WildFire connected via USB; However, I get same error message on both the Eclipse’s emulator and real HTC WildFire Any further help with debugging, please? Regards ---
**Author:** ![Imre\_Tokai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@Imre\_Tokai](https://community.wowza.com/u/Imre_Tokai)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2012, 8:50am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/android-play-video/35972/6 "2012-03-22T08:50:21Z")
Thank you for your responses, Ian! Have been trying to assemble simple video-playing example using jqtouch framework with appMobi on HTC Wildfire (Android), but no luck yet: [https://www.wowza.com/html/mobile.html](https://www.wowza.com/html/mobile.html) rtsp://184.72.239.149/vod/mp4:BigBuckBunny\_175k.mov [http://groups.google.com/group/jqtouch/browse\_thread/thread/d26766fa6a326cdc](http://groups.google.com/group/jqtouch/browse_thread/thread/d26766fa6a326cdc) [http://jonathanstark.com/blog/2010/02/11/html5-video-css-animations-and-jqtouch/](http://jonathanstark.com/blog/2010/02/11/html5-video-css-animations-and-jqtouch/) [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4378395/how-does-one-load-a-media-player-to-play-vide-or-audio-files-with-jqtouch](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4378395/how-does-one-load-a-media-player-to-play-vide-or-audio-files-with-jqtouch) > [@Android play video](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/35972): > > For Android platform, I found some guidelines on [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-troubleshoot-rtsp-rtp-playback](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-troubleshoot-rtsp-rtp-playback) and videos on [https://www.wowza.com/mobile.html](https://www.wowza.com/mobile.html) On Mac, I work with Eclipse(simulator) + HTC WildFire When I put in my code, movie play doesn’t work href=“rtsp://184.72.239.149/vod/mp4:BigBuckBunny\_175k.mov” rel=“external” Application Error: The protocol is not supported. (rtsp://184.72.239.149/vod/mp4:BigBuckBunny\_175.mov) But this works href=“[http://www.google.com](http://www.google.com)” rel=“ex… Can you share any guidelines, please? How to target BigBuckBunny\_175k.mov movie properly? Regards