title: Multicasting in android
body: <p>We have enabled multicast streaming in one of our machines using VLC server. We use the following URL for streaming the multicast data.</p>
  
  <p>rtp://239.1.2.11:5004 &amp; udp://239.1.2.11:1234</p>
  
  <p>But when we pass these links to the VideoView or mediaplayer in android, we get the message as "Sorry, the video can not be played".</p>
  
  <p>Is it the case that multicast streaming is not supported in android? (Though multicastsocket class is present in library) or are we missing anything?</p>
  
  <p>The links play well on the VLC client so we don't think there is any issue in VLC server.
  We are using android v2.3 for development.</p>