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…

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…

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.

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:

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 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…

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.