Thanks to everyone who came to our Google I/O talk! If you weren’t able to attend and want to learn more about ExoPlayer, the talk is now available to watch on YouTube.
ExoPlayer 2.4 is the first release to support playback speed adjustment back to Android Jelly Bean (API level 16). This post explains how to use the new functionality and gives some background on its implementation.
In ExoPlayer 2.4 we’ve split the library into five modules:
ExoPlayer 2.3 adds support for both CEA-608 closed captions and EMSG events in DASH streams, as well as spatial audio via Google’s VR SDK. We’ve also continued to improve our support for HLS. Some of the highlights of the 2.3 release are outlined below.
If you’re attending Google I/O this year, make sure to drop in on our session to learn what’s new in ExoPlayer, as well as some of ExoPlayer’s key concepts, points of customization and inner workings. We’ll also be on hand throughout the event to answer your ExoPlayer related questions.
Virtual reality applications rely on realistic audio rendering to create and maintain the illusion of being in another world. This post describes how to use ExoPlayer’s new GVR extension, which makes it easy to render spatial audio in VR applications.
ExoPlayer 2.2 adds a number of new features, as well as another batch of bug fixes as ExoPlayer V2 continues to mature. Some of the highlights are outlined below.
From Lollipop (API level 21), Android device manufacturers have been able to implement an optional feature called tunneled video playback. Primarily intended for Android TVs, tunneled video playback promises benefits such as better audio/video synchronization (AV…
ExoPlayer 2.1 is our first major update to ExoPlayer 2. In addition to a whole raft of bug fixes, ExoPlayer 2.1 adds significant pieces of new functionality. Some of the highlights are outlined below.
ExoPlayer V2 includes several out-of-the-box UI components, most notably:
My name is Ross Beazley and I work for the BBC in the Mobile Platforms team. Mobile Platforms make components and libraries for many of the BBC’s mobile apps including the BBC’s Standard Media Player (SMP). SMP is used for the playback of unencrypted BBC content and at its…
Today we’ll be making our first release of ExoPlayer 2. This is a major iteration of the library. It includes significant API and architectural changes, as well as many new features.
The ExoPlayer demo app is the de facto starting point for most newcomers to ExoPlayer. You can inspect the demo app’s source code, understand how it works and use this knowledge to build your own application. Unfortunately, doing this with the ExoPlayer 1 demo app was far…
MediaSource composition is a powerful concept in ExoPlayer 2, enabling functionality such as side-loaded subtitles, looping and playback of sequences of videos.
Stetho is a sophisticated debug bridge for Android applications. When enabled, developers have access to the Chrome Developer Tools feature natively part of…
ExoPlayer 2 includes new features for music players and other audio-focused apps. Read on to find out about gapless playback and improved audio extensions.
As ExoPlayer 2 nears completion, we’ve taken some time to reorganize the library.
ExoPlayer 2 has a new root package name: com.google.android.exoplayer2. This reflects…
When a piece of media contains multiple tracks of a given type, for example multiple video tracks in different qualities or multiple audio tracks in different languages, ExoPlayer has to select which track of each type it wishes to play. For adaptive video playbacks, ExoPlayer…
Welcome to the first of a series of posts describing ExoPlayer 2, a major rewrite of ExoPlayer that we’ve been working on for the last six months. This post explains why ExoPlayer 2 is necessary, what to expect and when to expect it.
As ExoPlayer becomes more popular, it becomes more important that the issues reported on our GitHub issue tracker contain the information required for us to efficiently triage, reproduce and (hopefully!) fix the problem. So, what information should you include when reporting…
