Media3 1.4.0 — what’s new?

Media3 1.4.0 is released with new preload utilities, better HDR support in…

Media3 1.3.0 — What’s new?

Media3 1.3.0 is now available! Feature highlights include support for image output in ExoPlayer, including handling for DASH thumbnails, some initial low-level APIs for preloading to reduce latency when switching between media items, transmuxing optimizations in Transformer, and…

Trim, Transcode, Concatenate: Your Guide to Media3 Editing Libraries

Ian Baker

Nov 21, 2023

Diagram showing a device running ExoPlayer making an HTTP GET request for ‘/segment1.m4s’ to a CDN Edge server and including a CMCD-Object HTTP request header with value ‘br=3200,d=4004,ot=v,tb=6000’.

Media3 1.2.0 — What’s new?

Media3 1.2.0 is now out! This post highlights some of the most significant…

Media3 is ready to play!

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…

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.

DASH

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.

RTSP

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.

API capabilities

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…