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.