This blogs explains how to embed a mini HttpServer into your android app to serve local video files from your device to  other devices/desktop browsers/mediaplayers

You can do it by serving the local file using Java ServerSocket : server-side socket that waits for incoming client connections. A ServerSocket handles the requests and sends back an appropriate reply.

I made a demo App explaining this functionality, check out the code from Github (demo has a sample mp4, you can find it in assets folder. Move it your SD card  root folder to run the demo successfully)

LocalFileStreamingServer is a Thread which implements Runnable interface, you can create server object by passing the video file object from your activity. Continue reading →