We’re hiring!

Are you looking for a new challenge? We’re growing the Android Media team in London, and are looking for enthusiastic engineers to work across a number of projects.

Our framework sub-team is responsible for some of the key media components within the Android OS. These include…

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Toni Heidenreich

Nov 19, 2021

ExoPlayer 2.16 — What’s new

ExoPlayer 2.16 is out and this post highlights some of the most significant changes. As always, we recommend also taking a look at the full release notes.

Android 12 compatibility

Introducing the Android Media Developer Survey

Here in the Android media team, we’re working to make it easier to make great…

Christos Tsilopoulos

Aug 26, 2021

Exoplayer 2.15 - What’s new

ExoPlayer 2.15 is now out! This post highlights some of the most significant changes. As always, we recommend also taking a look at the full release notes.

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Ian Baker

Aug 4, 2021

Standardising `DataSource` implementations through testing

Background

ExoPlayer has a modular structure, which allows applications using the library to override or vary many different aspects of its behaviour. This modularity is achieved through the use of…

Olly Woodman

May 17, 2021

ExoPlayer 2.14 - What’s new

ExoPlayer 2.14 contains many new features, improvements and bug fixes. This post highlights some of the most significant changes. As always, we recommend also taking a look at the full release notes.

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We’re hiring!

Join us and help to improve the developer facing APIs powering media playback, processing and related use cases for hundreds of thousands of Android apps.

Our team in London develop the open-source ExoPlayer library, which powers billions of video playbacks daily on Android…

Transforming media with ExoPlayer

ExoPlayer 2.13 includes a new Transformer library module for converting media streams. This post describes what this module does and how to use it.

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Toni Heidenreich

Feb 9, 2021

Diagram showing segments in a live stream with a low-latency playback position in the yet unfinished segment at the live edge

Low-latency live streaming with ExoPlayer

Low-latency live streaming was identified as one of the biggest challenges for video…

ExoPlayer 2.13 - What’s new

ExoPlayer 2.13 contains many new features, improvements and bug fixes. This post highlights some of the most significant changes. As always, we recommend also taking a look at the full release notes.

Transformer API

The media2 extension for ExoPlayer

The AndroidX media2 session API is the new version of Android’s MediaSession API. By integrating your application’s media player with this API, you can allow playback to be controlled via Bluetooth media control keys, Google Assistant, Android Auto, and other…

A top-level playlist API for ExoPlayer

ExoPlayer 2.12 integrates playlist support into the player’s top-level API.

In ExoPlayer 2.0, MediaSource composition made it possible to play sequences of media items using…

Improved Japanese subtitle support

ExoPlayer 2.12 adds parsing and rendering support for vertical text…

Olly Woodman

Sep 13, 2020

ExoPlayer 2.12 - What’s new

ExoPlayer 2.12 contains many new features, improvements and bug fixes. This post highlights some of the most…

Improving ExoPlayer rendering performance

We have recently pushed a new experimental feature to the ExoPlayer dev-v2 branch as…

ExoPlayer 2.11 - What’s new

ExoPlayer 2.11 contains many new features, improvements and bug fixes. This post highlights some of the most significant changes. As always, we recommend also taking a look at the full release notes.

Android 10

Playing AV1 videos with ExoPlayer

AV1 is a new video codec that aims to provide improved compression efficiency compared to VP9 and HEVC. Over the past year, we’ve seen considerable interest in supporting AV1 playback in ExoPlayer. As part of keeping pace with the latest developments in video coding…

ExoPlayer 2.10 — What’s new

ExoPlayer 2.10 contains many new features, improvements and bug fixes. This post highlights some of the most significant changes. Take a look at the full release notes for a more comprehensive list, and our new and improved developer site for more information about using…

Improved decoder reuse in ExoPlayer

By reusing decoder instances in more cases, ExoPlayer 2.10 can…

ExoPlayer 2.9 — What’s new

ExoPlayer 2.9 includes lots of new features, improvements and bug fixes. This post highlights some of the most significant changes. Please consult the full release notes for a comprehensive list.

Java 8

Load error handling in ExoPlayer

ExoPlayer version 2.9 provides error handling customization via LoadErrorHandlingPolicy. Historically, error handling has been one of the less flexible aspects of ExoPlayer. By using custom implementations of the LoadErrorHandlingPolicy interface, apps can now tweak load…

Playing 360 degree videos with ExoPlayer

With ExoPlayer 2.9 a new surface type is added to PlayerView: spherical_view. This new surface type allows users to view 360º videos without a VR headset. Only some part of the video in one direction is displayed at any time. To explore the video in all…