chrisgate / instreamer

Android TV app for streaming HDMI input of Zidoo X9S and Zidoo X8 compatible TV boxes with ffmpeg.

HDMI IN Streamer

Android TV app for streaming HDMI input of Zidoo X9S and Zidoo X8 compatible TV boxes with ffmpeg.

Installation

• Copy .apk from releases to your device and install it.
• Copy ffmpeg binary to /mnt/sdcard/

Running

• Start app from menu
• Press menu button and edit and confirm all settings
• Start streaming by pressing Play/Pause button on remote

Configuration

• Valid ffmpeg commands:
• streaming to network in MPEG-TS:

ffmpeg -i - -codec:v copy -codec:a copy -bsf:v dump_extra -f mpegts udp://[IP]:1234

• streaming to web (e.g. YouTube):

ffmpeg  -i - -strict -2 -codec:v copy -codec:a aac -b:a 128k -f flv rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/[Stream name/key]

Compilation

Open in Android studio and compile as usual.

Features

• streaming as MPEG-TS to network (unicast/multicast)
• streaming in FLV format to RTMP server (e.g. Youtube)
• no need for intermediate recording file - thus no length limit
• streaming runs in background
• HDMI out is usable as passthrough

TODO

• automatic download of needed ffmpeg binary on first start
• automatic restart of ffmpeg after network/encoding failure

Thanks

Thanks to danman.eu for ZidoStreamer, which this project is roughly based on.

Thanks to zidootech for VideoAndHdmiIN, which contained the needed libraries.