# VOD over RTSP to Android Seek Problem
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/vod-over-rtsp-to-android-seek-problem/38368
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Tags:** media-players-and-devices
**Created:** [March 22, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vod-over-rtsp-to-android-seek-problem/38368 "2012-03-22T13:51:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@David\_Walter](https://community.wowza.com/u/David_Walter)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vod-over-rtsp-to-android-seek-problem/38368/1 "2012-03-22T13:51:05Z")
After searching the forums for quite a while, I could not find a solution to this problem.
We have a VOD application running through wowza. With the streams over RTSP I find that on certain android devices are unable to seek through the video at all. It seems to play fine on the various android devices, and certain ones (HTC tested a few) can seek without problems. But others will not seek at all - I don’t even see the seek request come in to the server. It is almost like the device sees it as a live stream.
The only real difference I see is in the onDescribe if I log the info from the Request message the ones that seem to work have much more in the sdp request than the ones that do not. For example the ones that do not are missing user-agent, content-encoding, bandwidth, x-network-type, and accept-encoding tags that I see with the ones that do work.
Any insight would be appreciated.
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vod-over-rtsp-to-android-seek-problem/38368/2 "2012-03-22T20:09:18Z")
I have heard of this problem before. Is this what you are doing?:
> [@Android RTSP unable to seek](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/37023):
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> I am developing an Android app that connects and plays media from a Wowza server. I have a VideoView connecting to the correct address and playing the media. A MediaController is connected to that VideoView and correctly displays the time and shows the progress through the file with the scrubber bar. However using the scrubber bar doesn’t seek through the video. Neither does calling VideoView.seekTo(int pos) If I connect to the same URL using VLC it plays correctly. Any help is greatly appre…
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vod-over-rtsp-to-android-seek-problem/38368/3 "2012-03-22T20:25:10Z")
I think this is most likely a player issue that is out of reach of Wowza to affect.
Have you tried with the Wowza sample.mp4?
Also download and test with this file:
[https://www.wowza.com/\_h264/BigBuckBunny\_175k.mov](https://www.wowza.com/_h264/BigBuckBunny_175k.mov)
Richard
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vod-over-rtsp-to-android-seek-problem/38368/4 "2012-03-23T13:55:51Z")
I don’t think there is a Wowza solution to this problem
Richard
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### Author:  [@Jon\_Marsh](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jon_Marsh)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2013, 1:05pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vod-over-rtsp-to-android-seek-problem/38368/5 "2013-03-27T13:05:26Z")
> I am not actually coding the video player for android, but it is similar yes. I have tried with the stock player on a few different devices, plus a few of the more popular video players available for them as well.
Hi Buzzsaw,
you mention a few popular video players - can you help me cause jwplayer does not do rtsp - which have you found best because i cants stand the variations in the android stock players - happy to discuss offline if better would love to pick your brain about video on android and share knowledge. Jon jon dot marsh at narcosi dot com
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### Author:  [@David\_Walter](https://community.wowza.com/u/David_Walter)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vod-over-rtsp-to-android-seek-problem/38368/6 "2012-03-22T15:19:19Z")
I am not actually coding the video player for android, but it is similar yes. I have tried with the stock player on a few different devices, plus a few of the more popular video players available for them as well.
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### Author:  [@David\_Walter](https://community.wowza.com/u/David_Walter)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2012, 8:53am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/vod-over-rtsp-to-android-seek-problem/38368/7 "2012-03-23T08:53:00Z")
I tried with both of those with the same results.