 <p>I'm having exactly the same problem. At first I thought that it was not working, but I forgot my app opened and after a while the video showed up.</p> <p>The funny thing is that if I use this video[1] which I found in a tutorial on VideoView, the lag is much smaller. I am thinking on installing Darwin Streaming server to check if it is a matter of VLC or another issue.</p> <p>[1] rtsp://v5.cache1.c.youtube.com/CjYLENy73wIaLQnhycnrJQ8qmRMYESARFEIJbXYtZ29vZ2xlSARSBXdhdGNoYPj_hYjnq6uUTQw=/0/0/0/video.3gp</p>