Making a surveillance app

[R2THEOB]

Hi guys,
First time posting here so excuse me if I've posted in the wrong section. I'm trying to make a surveillance app for Android using VLCs SDK. I'm having a hard time with it and there's almost 0 support. Does anyone have any recommendations for a player SDK besides VLC?
Thanks.

 

[bp2008]

ffmpeg is an option.

There are quite a few official examples to look at. e.g. FFmpeg: demuxing_decoding.c

I won't lie, though, the API is quite complex and probably not too different from VLC's. And when something just doesn't work it will piss you off.

 

[Hexagony]

VXG SDK is good for surveillance - it supports a lot of cameras and you can get really low latency for RTSP streams. And these guys have tech support (they've responded me in hours).

 

[R2THEOB]

Thanks for the advice, guys.
FFmpeg is a bit complicated still.
VXG SDK seems pretty straight forward! I'll keep trying with their trial.