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HLS playback in ExoPlayer

ExoPlayer’s ultimate goal is to create compelling and stable playback experiences. These experiences can be thought as a combined effort between the player itself and the content provider. The purpose of this post is to shed some light on what ExoPlayer considers to be high quality…

ExoPlayer 2.5 - What’s new

ExoPlayer 2.5 adds significant new functionality, including three new extensions. It also makes significant improvements to the core playback experience, and as always comes with a raft of miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes!

Extensions, extensions…

Pre-caching/Downloading progressive streams in ExoPlayer

In this post, we’ll show how to download both the whole and part of a progressive stream, how to query the download progress, and finally how to remove downloaded content.

Playing ads with ExoPlayer and IMA

The ExoPlayer 2.5 release includes a new extension for playing ads, wrapping the Interactive Media Ads SDK (IMA). This post describes how to get started with the extension and explains some of its benefits compared to a using IMA directly.

Repeat modes in ExoPlayer

Starting with version 2.5, ExoPlayer will have a repeat mode feature allowing you to seamlessly switch between regular playback, Repeat One, and Repeat All modes.

The new repeat modes work pretty much as you would expect:

HowTo #2 - Depend on a local checkout of ExoPlayer

Adding a dependency to your application’s build.gradle file is the easiest way to depend on released versions of ExoPlayer, but what if you want to depend on the development branch or a version that you’ve modified locally? We’ve made some…

Watch our Google I/O talk on YouTube

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.

Variable speed playback with ExoPlayer

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.

ExoPlayer’s new modular structure

In ExoPlayer 2.4 we’ve split the library into five modules:

• exoplayer-core: Core functionality (required).
• exoplayer-dash: Support for DASH content.
• exoplayer-hls: Support for HLS content.

ExoPlayer 2.3 - What’s new

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.

ExoPlayer at Google I/O

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.

Spatial audio with ExoPlayer and GVR

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 - What’s new

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.

Tunneled video playback

Tunneled video playback in ExoPlayer

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 - What’s new

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.

Seeking in live HLS streams

Customizing ExoPlayer’s UI components

ExoPlayer V2 includes several out-of-the-box UI components, most notably:

• PlaybackControlView is a view for controlling ExoPlayer instances. It displays standard playback controls including a play/pause button, fast-forward and rewind…

ExoPlayer from the other side

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…

ExoPlayer 2 - It’s here (plus FAQs)!

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.

Q: What happens to ExoPlayer 1?

ExoPlayer 2 - Improved demo app

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…

ExoPlayer 2 - MediaSource composition

MediaSource composition is a powerful concept in ExoPlayer 2, enabling functionality such as side-loaded subtitles, looping and playback of sequences of videos.

Enabling Stetho on ExoPlayer 2 Demo Application

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 - New audio features

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.

Gapless playback

ExoPlayer 2 - New package and class names

As ExoPlayer 2 nears completion, we’ve taken some time to reorganize the library.

New root package name

ExoPlayer 2 has a new root package name: com.google.android.exoplayer2. This reflects…

ExoPlayer 2 - Track selection

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…