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Downloading Adaptive Streams

This is a follow up post for Downloading Streams, covering the details related to downloading adaptive streams.

Adaptive streams (DASH, SmoothStreaming and HLS) consist of multiple media tracks, often the same content in different qualities (for example…

ExoPlayer at Google I/O

If you’re attending Google I/O this year then be sure to come along to our session on Thursday at 10:30am, where you’ll learn how to build feature-rich media apps with ExoPlayer. For those not attending, the talk will also be live streamed and a recording will be available shortly after…

Downloading Streams

Recently we have added support for downloading DASH, HLS and SmoothStreaming non-live streams in addition to progressive streams. This post is an introduction to this functionality.

Let’s begin with learning the main classes involved:

Playback Notifications with ExoPlayer

Displaying a notification with playback controls is a best practice for media apps on Android. For audio playback in the background it’s even a requirement to attach a foreground service to a notification. To help make this task easier, we’ve added a new…

New Cast extension (and demo app)

If your app already uses ExoPlayer, you will be happy to know that integrating Cast into your app has just become a bit easier, as it now implements the Player interface. Version 2.7.0 includes the new Cast extension along with a demo app to use as starting point.

Faster HLS preparation

My last medium story outlines some good practices that HLS content producers can follow to make client-side media playback easier. This post aims to describe how chunkless preparation in ExoPlayer can now take advantage of rich master playlists to shorten the initial buffering period by…

ExoPlayer 2.6.1 - What’s new

This post outlines some of the improvements we’ve made in the 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 releases of ExoPlayer, including Factory classes for MediaSource implementation, a new shuffle mode, and a Leanback extension for TV applications. As always, these releases come with a raft of…

Dynamic playlists with ExoPlayer

Ever wanted to support media playlists in your Android app, where users can add and remove playlist items arbitrarily during playback? Now you can!

From ExoPlayer 2.8.0 onward we’ve updated the ConcatenatingMediaSource with dynamic playlist…

The MediaSession extension for ExoPlayer

The Android MediaSession API provides an abstract model with which clients can interact to monitor and control media playback via MediaController and its TransportControls. Clients like Google Assistant, Android Auto, Android TV and Android Wear use the…

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…

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