1.6.0-alpha01

This release includes the following changes since the 1.5.1 release:

• Common Library:
  • Remove Format.toBundle(boolean excludeMetadata) method, use Format.toBundle() instead.
  • Add AudioManagerCompat and AudioFocusRequestCompat to replace the equivalent classes in androidx.media.
• ExoPlayer:
  • Consider language when selecting a video track. By default select a 'main' video track that matches the language of the selected audio track, if available. Explicit video language preferences can be expressed with TrackSelectionParameters.Builder.setPreferredVideoLanguage(s).
  • Add selectedAudioLanguage parameter to DefaultTrackSelector.selectVideoTrack() method.
  • Add retryCount parameter to MediaSourceEventListener.onLoadStarted and corresponding MediaSourceEventListener.EventDispatcher methods.
  • Fix bug where playlist items or periods in multi-period DASH streams with durations that don't match the actual content could cause frame freezes at the end of the item (#1698).
  • Reduce default values for bufferForPlaybackMs and bufferForPlaybackAfterRebufferMs in DefaultLoadControl to 1000 and 2000 ms respectively.
  • Add MediaExtractorCompat, a new class that provides equivalent functionality to platform MediaExtractor.
  • Move BasePreloadManager.Listener to a top level PreloadManagerListener.
  • RenderersFactory.createSecondaryRenderer can be implemented to provide secondary renderers for pre-warming. Pre-warming enables quicker media item transitions during playback.
  • Enable sending CmcdData for manifest requests in adaptive streaming formats DASH, HLS, and SmoothStreaming (#1951).
  • Provide MediaCodecInfo of the codec that will be initialized in MediaCodecRenderer.onReadyToInitializeCodec (#1963).
  • Change AdsMediaSource to allow the AdPlaybackStates to grow by appending ad groups. Invalid modifications are detected and throw an exception.
• Transformer:
  • Update parameters of VideoFrameProcessor.registerInputStream and VideoFrameProcessor.Listener.onInputStreamRegistered to use Format.
  • Add support for transmuxing into alternative backwards compatible formats.
  • Generate HDR static metadata when using DefaultEncoderFactory.
• Extractors:
  • AVI: Fix handling of files with constant bitrate compressed audio where the stream header stores the number of bytes instead of the number of chunks.
• Audio:
  • Fix onAudioPositionAdvancing to be called when playback resumes (previously it was called when playback was paused).
• Video:
  • Fix MediaCodecVideoRenderer such that when without a Surface, the renderer will skip just-early frames only if the VideoFrameReleaseControl.getFrameReleaseAction is not FRAME_RELEASE_TRY_AGAIN_LATER.
• Text:
  • Stop eagerly loading all subtitle files configured with MediaItem.Builder.setSubtitleConfigurations, and instead only load one if it is selected by track selection (#1721).
• Effect:
  • Moved the functionality of OverlaySettings into StaticOverlaySettings. OverlaySettings can be subclassed to allow dynamic overlay settings.
• Muxers:
  • Moved MuxerException out of Muxer interface to avoid a very long fully qualified name.
• Session:
  • Add Context as a parameter to MediaButtonReceiver.shouldStartForegroundService (#1887).
• UI:
  • Add PlayerSurface Composable to media3-ui-compose module.
  • Add PlayPauseButtonState, NextButtonState, PreviousButtonState, RepeatButtonState, ShuffleButtonState classes and the corresponding rememberPlayPauseButtonState, rememberNextButtonState, rememberPreviousButtonState, rememberRepeatButtonState, rememberShuffleButtonState Composables to media3-ui-compose module.
• HLS Extension:
  • Add a first version of HlsInterstitialsAdsLoader. The ads loader reads the HLS interstitials of an HLS media playlist and maps them to the AdPlaybackState that is passed to the AdsMediaSource. This initial version only supports HLS VOD streams with X-ASSET-URI attributes.
  • Add HlsInterstitialsAdsLoader.AdsMediaSourceFactory. Apps can use it to create AdsMediaSource instances that use an HlsInterstitialsAdsLoader in a convenient and safe way.
• DASH Extension:
  • Add AC-4 Level-4 format support for DASH (#1898).
• Decoder Extensions (FFmpeg, VP9, AV1, etc.):
  • Add the MPEG-H decoder module which uses the native MPEG-H decoder module to decode MPEG-H audio (#1826).
• Demo app:
  • Add MinimalControls (PlayPauseButton, NextButton, PreviousButton) and ExtraControls (RepeatButton, ShuffleButton) Composable UI elements to demo-compose utilizing PlayPauseButtonState, NextButtonState, PreviousButtonState, RepeatButtonState, ShuffleButtonState.
• Remove deprecated symbols:
  • Remove deprecated AudioMixer.create() method. Use DefaultAudioMixer.Factory().create() instead.
  • Remove the following deprecated Transformer.Builder methods:
    • setTransformationRequest(), use setAudioMimeType(), setVideoMimeType(), and setHdrMode() instead.
    • setAudioProcessors(), set the audio processor in an EditedMediaItem.Builder.setEffects(), and pass it to Transformer.start() instead.
    • setVideoEffects(), set video effect in an EditedMediaItem.Builder.setEffects(), and pass it to Transformer.start() instead.
    • setRemoveAudio(), use EditedMediaItem.Builder.setRemoveAudio() to remove the audio from the EditedMediaItem passed to Transformer.start() instead.
    • setRemoveVideo(), use EditedMediaItem.Builder.setRemoveVideo() to remove the video from the EditedMediaItem passed to Transformer.start() instead.
    • setFlattenForSlowMotion(), use EditedMediaItem.Builder.setFlattenForSlowMotion() to flatten the EditedMediaItem passed to Transformer.start() instead.
    • setListener(), use addListener(), removeListener() or removeAllListeners() instead.
  • Remove the following deprecated Transformer.Listener methods:
    • onTransformationCompleted(MediaItem), use onCompleted(Composition, ExportResult) instead.
    • onTransformationCompleted(MediaItem, TransformationResult), use onCompleted(Composition, ExportResult) instead.
    • onTransformationError(MediaItem, Exception), use onError(Composition, ExportResult, ExportException) instead.
    • onTransformationError(MediaItem, TransformationException), use onError(Composition, ExportResult, ExportException) instead.
    • onTransformationError(MediaItem, TransformationResult, TransformationException), use onError(Composition, ExportResult, ExportException) instead.
    • onFallbackApplied(MediaItem, TransformationRequest, TransformationRequest), use onFallbackApplied(Composition, TransformationRequest, TransformationRequest) instead.
  • Remove deprecated TransformationResult class. Use ExportResult instead.
  • Remove deprecated TransformationException class. Use ExportException instead.
  • Remove deprecated Transformer.PROGRESS_STATE_NO_TRANSFORMATION. Use Transformer.PROGRESS_STATE_NOT_STARTED instead.
  • Remove deprecated Transformer.setListener(). Use Transformer.addListener(), Transformer.removeListener() or Transformer.removeAllListeners() instead.
  • Remove deprecated Transformer.startTransformation(). Use Transformer.start(MediaItem, String) instead.
  • Remove deprecated SingleFrameGlShaderProgram. Use BaseGlShaderProgram instead.
  • Remove Transformer.flattenForSlowMotion. Use EditedMediaItem.flattenForSlowMotion instead.

1.5.1

This release includes the following changes since the 1.5.0 release:

• ExoPlayer:
  • Disable use of asynchronous decryption in MediaCodec to avoid reported codec timeout issues with this platform API (#1641).
• Extractors:
  • MP3: Don't stop playback early when a VBRI frame's table of contents doesn't cover all the MP3 data in a file (#1904).
• Video:
  • Rollback of using MediaCodecAdapter supplied pixel aspect ratio values when provided while processing onOutputFormatChanged (#1371).
• Text:
  • Fix bug in ReplacingCuesResolver.discardCuesBeforeTimeUs where the cue active at timeUs (started before but not yet ended) was incorrectly discarded (#1939).
• Metadata:
  • Extract disc/track numbering and genre from Vorbis comments into MediaMetadata (#1958).

1.5.0

This release includes the following changes since the 1.4.1 release:

• Common Library:
  • Add ForwardingSimpleBasePlayer that allows forwarding to another player with small adjustments while ensuring full consistency and listener handling (#1183).
  • Replace SimpleBasePlayer.State.playlist by getPlaylist() method.
  • Add override for SimpleBasePlayer.State.Builder.setPlaylist() to directly specify a Timeline and current Tracks and Metadata instead of building a playlist structure.
  • Increase minSdk to 21 (Android Lollipop). This is aligned with all other AndroidX libraries.
  • Add androidx.media3:media3-common-ktx artifact which provides Kotlin-specific functionality built on top of the Common library
  • Add Player.listen suspending extension function to spin a coroutine to listen to Player.Events to the media3-common-ktx library.
  • Remove @DoNotInline annotations from manually out-of-lined inner classes designed to avoid runtime class verification failures. Recent versions of R8 now automatically out-of-line calls like these to avoid the runtime failures (so the manual out-of-lining is no longer required). All Gradle users of the library must already be a using a version of the Android Gradle Plugin that uses a version of R8 which does this, due to compileSdk = 35. Users of the library with non-Gradle build systems will need to ensure their R8-equivalent shrinking/obfuscating step does a similar automatic out-of-lining process in order to avoid runtime class verification failures. This change has already been done in other AndroidX libraries.
• ExoPlayer:
  • MediaCodecRenderer.onProcessedStreamChange() can now be called for every media item. Previously it was not called for the first one. Use MediaCodecRenderer.experimentalEnableProcessedStreamChangedAtStart() to enable this.
  • Add PreloadMediaSource.PreloadControl.onPreloadError to allow PreloadMediaSource.PreloadControl implementations to take actions when error occurs.
  • Add BasePreloadManager.Listener to propagate preload events to apps.
  • Allow changing SNTP client timeout and retry alternative addresses on timeout (#1540).
  • Remove MediaCodecAdapter.Configuration.flags as the field was always zero.
  • Allow the user to select the built-in speaker for playback on Wear OS API 35+ (where the device advertises support for this).
  • Defer the blocking call to Context.getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE) until audio focus handling is enabled. This ensures the blocking call isn't done if audio focus handling is not enabled (#1616).
  • Allow playback regardless of buffered duration when loading fails (#1571).
  • Add AnalyticsListener.onRendererReadyChanged() to signal when individual renderers allow playback to be ready.
  • Fix MediaCodec.CryptoException sometimes being reported as an "unexpected runtime error" when MediaCodec is operated in asynchronous mode (default behaviour on API 31+).
  • Pass bufferedDurationUs instead of bufferedPositionUs with PreloadMediaSource.PreloadControl.onContinueLoadingRequested(). Also changes DefaultPreloadManager.Status.STAGE_LOADED_TO_POSITION_MS to DefaultPreloadManager.Status.STAGE_LOADED_FOR_DURATION_MS, apps then need to pass a value representing a specific duration from the default start position for which the corresponding media source has to be preloaded with this IntDef, instead of a position.
  • Add ForwardingRenderer implementation that forwards all method calls to another renderer (1703).
  • Add playlist preloading for the next item in the playlist. Apps can enable preloading by calling ExoPlayer.setPreloadConfiguration(PreloadConfiguration) accordingly. By default preloading is disabled. When opted-in and to not interfere with playback, DefaultLoadControl restricts preloading to start and continue only when the player is not loading for playback. Apps can change this behaviour by implementing LoadControl.shouldContinuePreloading() accordingly (like when overriding this method in DefaultLoadControl). The default implementation of LoadControl disables preloading in case an app is using a custom implementation of LoadControl.
  • Add method MediaSourceEventListener.EventDispatcher.dispatchEvent() to allow invoking events of subclass listeners (1736).
  • Add DefaultPreloadManager.Builder that builds the DefaultPreloadManager and ExoPlayer instances with consistently shared configurations.
  • Remove Renderer[] parameter from LoadControl.onTracksSelected() as DefaultLoadControl implementation can retrieve the stream types from ExoTrackSelection[].
  • Deprecated DefaultLoadControl.calculateTargetBufferBytes(Renderer[], ExoTrackSelection[]) and marked method as final to prevent overrides. The new DefaultLoadControl.calculateTargetBufferBytes(ExoTrackSelection[]) should be used instead.
  • Report MediaSourceEventListener events from secondary sources in MergingMediaSource. This will result in load start/error/cancelled/completed events being reported for sideloaded subtitles (those added with MediaItem.LocalConfiguration.subtitleConfigurations), which may appear as duplicate load events emitted from AnalyticsListener.
  • Prevent subtitle & metadata errors from completely stopping playback. Instead the problematic track is disabled and playback of the remaining tracks continues (#1722).
    • In new subtitle handling (during extraction), associated parse (e.g. invalid subtitle data) and load errors (e.g. HTTP 404) are emitted via onLoadError callbacks.
    • In legacy subtitle handling (during rendering), only associated load errors are emitted via onLoadError callbacks while parse errors are silently ignored (this is pre-existing behaviour).
  • Fix bug where playlist items or periods in multi-period DASH streams with durations that don't match the actual content could cause frame freezes at the end of the item (#1698).
  • Add a setter to SntpClient to set the max elapsed time since the last update after which the client is re-initialized (#1794).
• Transformer:
  • Add SurfaceAssetLoader, which supports queueing video data to Transformer via a Surface.
  • ImageAssetLoader reports unsupported input via AssetLoader.onError instead of throwing an IllegalStateException.
  • Make setting the image duration using MediaItem.Builder.setImageDurationMs mandatory for image export.
  • Add export support for gaps in sequences of audio EditedMediaItems.
• Track Selection:
  • DefaultTrackSelector: Prefer object-based audio over channel-based audio when other factors are equal.
• Extractors:
  • Allow Mp4Extractor and FragmentedMp4Extractor to identify H264 samples that are not used as reference by subsequent samples.
  • Add option to enable index-based seeking in AmrExtractor.
  • Treat MP3 files with more than 128kB between valid frames as truncated (instead of invalid). This means files with non-MP3 data at the end, with no other metadata to indicate the length of the MP3 bytes, now stop playback at the end of the MP3 data instead of failing with ParserException: Searched too many bytes.{contentIsMalformed=true, dataType=1} (#1563).
  • Fix preroll sample handling for non-keyframe media start positions when processing edit lists in MP4 files (#1659).
  • Improved frame rate calculation by using media duration from the mdhd box in Mp4Extractor and FragmentedMp4Extractor (#1531).
  • Fix incorrect scaling of media_time in MP4 edit lists. While segment_duration was already correctly scaled using the movie timescale, media_time is now properly scaled using the track timescale, as specified by the MP4 format standard (#1792).
  • Handle out-of-order frames in endIndices calculation for MP4 with edit list (#1797).
  • Fix media duration parsing in mdhd box of MP4 files to handle -1 values (#1819).
  • Add support for identifying h263 box in MP4 files for H.263 video (#1821).
  • Add AC-4 Level-4 ISO base media file format support (#1265).
• DataSource:
  • Update HttpEngineDataSource to allow use starting at version S extension 7 instead of API level 34 (#1262).
  • DataSourceContractTest: Assert that DataSource.getUri() returns the resolved URI (as documented). Where this is different to the requested URI, tests can indicate this using the new DataSourceContractTest.TestResource.Builder.setResolvedUri() method.
  • DataSourceContractTest: Assert that DataSource.getUri() and getResponseHeaders() return their 'open' value after a failed call to open() (due to a...

1.5.0-rc02

This release includes the following changes since the
1.5.0-rc01 release:

• Extractors:
  • Add AC-4 Level-4 ISO base media file format support (#1265).
• Text:
  • Fix garbled CEA-608 subtitles in content with more than one SEI message per sample.
  • Fix playback hanging on DASH multi-period streams when CEA-608 subtitles are enabled (#1863).
  • Fix garbled CEA-608 subtitles in MP4 files that incorrectly mark every sample as a sync sample (#1863).
• Demo app
  • Resolve the memory leaks in demo short-form app (#1839).

1.5.0-rc01

This release includes the following changes since the 1.5.0-beta01 release:

• ExoPlayer:
  • Fix bug where playlist items or periods in multi-period DASH streams with durations that don't match the actual content could cause frame freezes at the end of the item (#1698).
  • Add a setter to SntpClient to set the max elapsed time since the last update after which the client is re-initialized (#1794).
• Extractors:
  • Fix media duration parsing in mdhd box of MP4 files to handle -1 values (#1819).
  • Add support for identifying h263 box in MP4 files for H.263 video (#1821).
• DataSource:
  • DataSourceContractTest: Assert that DataSource.getUri() returns the resolved URI (as documented). Where this is different to the requested URI, tests can indicate this using the new DataSourceContractTest.TestResource.Builder.setResolvedUri() method.
  • DataSourceContractTest: Assert that DataSource.getUri() and getResponseHeaders() return their 'open' value after a failed call to open() (due to a 'not found' resource) and before a subsequent close() call.
    • Overriding DataSourceContractTest.getNotFoundResources() allows test sub-classes to provide multiple 'not found' resources, and to provide any expected headers too. This allows to distinguish between HTTP 404 (with headers) and "server not found" (no headers).
• Text:
  • Fix CEA-608 subtitles in H.264 MPEG-TS streams not being output (this was broken in 1.5.0-alpha01 by 03a205f).
  • Support CEA-608 subtitles in Dolby Vision content (#1820).
• RTSP Extension:
  • Fix crashing when parsing of RTP packets with header extensions (#1225).

1.5.0-beta01

This release includes the following changes since the
1.5.0-alpha01 release:

• Common Library:
  • Remove @DoNotInline annotations from manually out-of-lined inner classes designed to avoid runtime class verification failures. Recent versions of R8 now automatically out-of-line calls like these to avoid the runtime failures (so the manual out-of-lining is no longer required). All Gradle users of the library must already be a using a version of the Android Gradle Plugin that uses a version of R8 which does this, due to compileSdk = 35. Users of the library with non-Gradle build systems will need to ensure their R8-equivalent shrinking/obfuscating step does a similar automatic out-of-lining process in order to avoid runtime class verification failures. This change has already been done in other AndroidX libraries.
• ExoPlayer:
  • Fix MediaCodec.CryptoException sometimes being reported as an "unexpected runtime error" when MediaCodec is operated in asynchronous mode (default behaviour on API 31+).
  • Pass bufferedDurationUs instead of bufferedPositionUs with PreloadMediaSource.PreloadControl.onContinueLoadingRequested(). Also changes DefaultPreloadManager.Status.STAGE_LOADED_TO_POSITION_MS to DefaultPreloadManager.Status.STAGE_LOADED_FOR_DURATION_MS, apps then need to pass a value representing a specific duration from the default start position for which the corresponding media source has to be preloaded with this IntDef, instead of a position.
  • Add ForwardingRenderer implementation that forwards all method calls to another renderer (1703).
  • Add playlist preloading for the next item in the playlist. Apps can enable preloading by calling ExoPlayer.setPreloadConfiguration(PreloadConfiguration) accordingly. By default preloading is disabled. When opted-in and to not interfere with playback, DefaultLoadControl restricts preloading to start and continue only when the player is not loading for playback. Apps can change this behaviour by implementing LoadControl.shouldContinuePreloading() accordingly (like when overriding this method in DefaultLoadControl). The default implementation of LoadControl disables preloading in case an app is using a custom implementation of LoadControl.
  • Add method MediaSourceEventListener.EventDispatcher.dispatchEvent() to allow invoking events of subclass listeners (1736).
  • Add DefaultPreloadManager.Builder that builds the DefaultPreloadManager and ExoPlayer instances with consistently shared configurations.
  • Remove Renderer[] parameter from LoadControl.onTracksSelected() as DefaultLoadControl implementation can retrieve the stream types from ExoTrackSelection[].
  • Deprecated DefaultLoadControl.calculateTargetBufferBytes(Renderer[], ExoTrackSelection[]) and marked method as final to prevent overrides. The new DefaultLoadControl.calculateTargetBufferBytes(ExoTrackSelection[]) should be used instead.
  • Report MediaSourceEventListener events from secondary sources in MergingMediaSource. This will result in load start/error/cancelled/completed events being reported for sideloaded subtitles (those added with MediaItem.LocalConfiguration.subtitleConfigurations), which may appear as duplicate load events emitted from AnalyticsListener.
  • Prevent subtitle & metadata errors from completely stopping playback. Instead the problematic track is disabled and playback of the remaining tracks continues (#1722).
    • In new subtitle handling (during extraction), associated parse (e.g. invalid subtitle data) and load errors (e.g. HTTP 404) are emitted via onLoadError callbacks.
    • In legacy subtitle handling (during rendering), only associated load errors are emitted via onLoadError callbacks while parse errors are silently ignored (this is pre-existing behaviour).
• Transformer:
  • Make setting the image duration using MediaItem.Builder.setImageDurationMs mandatory for image export.
  • Add export support for gaps in sequences of audio EditedMediaItems.
• Track Selection:
  • DefaultTrackSelector: Prefer object-based audio over channel-based audio when other factors are equal.
• Extractors:
  • Fix preroll sample handling for non-keyframe media start positions when processing edit lists in MP4 files (#1659).
  • Improved frame rate calculation by using media duration from the mdhd box in Mp4Extractor and FragmentedMp4Extractor (#1531).
  • Fix incorrect scaling of media_time in MP4 edit lists. While segment_duration was already correctly scaled using the movie timescale, media_time is now properly scaled using the track timescale, as specified by the MP4 format standard (#1792).
  • Handle out-of-order frames in endIndices calculation for MP4 with edit list (#1797).
• Audio:
  • Fix pop sounds that may occur during seeks.
  • Fix truncation error accumulation for Sonic's time-stretching/pitch-shifting algorithm.
  • Fix bug in SpeedChangingAudioProcessor that causes dropped output frames.
• Video:
  • Add workaround for a device issue on Galaxy Tab S7 FE that causes 60fps secure H264 streams to be marked as unsupported (#1619).
  • Add workaround for codecs that get stuck after the last sample without returning an end-of-stream signal.
• Text:
  • Ensure WebVTT in HLS with very large subtitle timestamps (which overflow a 64-bit long when represented as microseconds and multiplied by the 90,000 MPEG timebase) are displayed (#1763).
• Metadata:
  • Assign the C.TRACK_TYPE_METADATA type to tracks containing icy or vnd.dvb.ait content.
• DRM:
  • Fix IllegalStateException from DefaultDrmSession.requiresSecureDecoder after opening a DRM session failed. This issue was introduced in 1.5.0-alpha01.
• IMA extension:
  • Fix bug where server-side inserted DAI streams without a preroll can result in an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when playing past the last midroll (#1741).
• Session:
  • Fix bug that caused custom commands sent from a MediaBrowser being dispatched to the MediaSessionCompat.Callback instead of the MediaBrowserServiceCompat variant of the method when connected to a legacy service. This prevented the MediaBrowser to receive the actual return value sent back by the legacy service (#1474).
  • Handle IllegalArgumentException thrown by devices of certain manufacturers when setting the broadcast receiver for media button intents (#1730).
  • Add command buttons for media items. This adds the Media3 API for what was known as Custom browse actions with the legacy library with MediaBrowserCompat. Note that with Media3 command buttons for media items are available for both, MediaBrowser and MediaController. See Custom Browse actions of AAOS.
  • Fix bug where a Media3 controller was sometimes unable to let a session app start a foreground service after requesting play().
  • Restrict CommandButton.Builder.setIconUri to only accept content Uris.
  • Pass connection hints of a Media3 browser to the initial MediaBrowserCompat when connecting to a legacy MediaBrowserCompat. The service can receive the connection hints passed in as root hints with the first call to onGetRoot().
  • Fix bug where a MediaBrowser connected to a legacy browser service, didn't receive an error sent by the service after the browser has subscribed to a parentid.
  • Improve interoperability behavior, so that a Media3 browser that is connected to a legacy MediaBrowserService doesn't request the children of a parentId twice when subscribing to a parent.
• UI:
  • Make the stretched/cropped video in PlayerView-in-Compose-AndroidView workaround opt-in, due to issues with XML-based shared transitions. Apps using PlayerView inside AndroidView need to call PlayerView.setEnableComposeSurfaceSyncWorkaround in order to opt-in (#1237, #1594).
  • Add setFullscreenButtonState to PlayerView to allow updates of fullscreen button's icon on demand, i.e. out-of-band and not reactively to a click interaction (#1590, #184).
  • Fix bug where the "None" choice in the text selection is not working if there are app-defined text track selection preferences.
• Smooth Streaming Extension:
  • Fix a Bad magic number for Bundle error when playing SmoothStreaming streams with text tracks (#1779).
• RTSP Extension:
  • Fix user info removal for URLs that contain encoded @ characters (#1138).
• Decoder Extensions (FFmpeg, VP9, AV1, etc.):
  • Add 16 KB page support for decoder extensions on Android 15 ([#1685](https://github.com/a...

1.5.0-alpha01

This release includes the following changes since the
1.4.1 release:

• Common Library:
  • Add ForwardingSimpleBasePlayer that allows forwarding to another player with small adjustments while ensuring full consistency and listener handling (#1183).
  • Replace SimpleBasePlayer.State.playlist by getPlaylist() method.
  • Add override for SimpleBasePlayer.State.Builder.setPlaylist() to directly specify a Timeline and current Tracks and Metadata instead of building a playlist structure.
  • Increase minSdk to 21 (Android Lollipop). This is aligned with all other AndroidX libraries.
  • Add androidx.media3:media3-common-ktx artifact which provides Kotlin-specific functionality built on top of the Common library
  • Add Player.listen suspending extension function to spin a coroutine to listen to Player.Events to the media3-common-ktx library.
• ExoPlayer:
  • MediaCodecRenderer.onProcessedStreamChange() can now be called for every media item. Previously it was not called for the first one. Use MediaCodecRenderer.experimentalEnableProcessedStreamChangedAtStart() to enable this.
  • Add PreloadMediaSource.PreloadControl.onPreloadError to allow PreloadMediaSource.PreloadControl implementations to take actions when error occurs.
  • Add BasePreloadManager.Listener to propagate preload events to apps.
  • Allow changing SNTP client timeout and retry alternative addresses on timeout (#1540).
  • Remove MediaCodecAdapter.Configuration.flags as the field was always zero.
  • Allow the user to select the built-in speaker for playback on Wear OS API 35+ (where the device advertises support for this).
  • Defer the blocking call to Context.getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE) until audio focus handling is enabled. This ensures the blocking call isn't done if audio focus handling is not enabled (#1616).
  • Allow playback regardless of buffered duration when loading fails (#1571).
  • Add AnalyticsListener.onRendererReadyChanged() to signal when individual renderers allow playback to be ready.
• Transformer:
  • Add SurfaceAssetLoader, which supports queueing video data to Transformer via a Surface.
  • ImageAssetLoader reports unsupported input via AssetLoader.onError instead of throwing an IllegalStateException.
• Extractors:
  • Allow Mp4Extractor and FragmentedMp4Extractor to identify H264 samples that are not used as reference by subsequent samples.
  • Add option to enable index-based seeking in AmrExtractor.
  • Treat MP3 files with more than 128kB between valid frames as truncated (instead of invalid). This means files with non-MP3 data at the end, with no other metadata to indicate the length of the MP3 bytes, now stop playback at the end of the MP3 data instead of failing with ParserException: Searched too many bytes.{contentIsMalformed=true, dataType=1} (#1563).
• DataSource:
  • Update HttpEngineDataSource to allow use starting at version S extension 7 instead of API level 34 (#1262).
• Audio:
  • Automatically configure CTA-2075 loudness metadata on the codec if present in the media.
  • Ensure smooth volume ramp down when seeking.
• Video:
  • MediaCodecVideoRenderer avoids decoding samples that are neither rendered nor used as reference by other samples.
  • On API 35 and above, MediaCodecAdapter may now receive a null Surface in configure and calls to a new method detachOutputSurface to remove a previously set Surface if the codec supports this (MediaCodecInfo.detachedSurfaceSupported).
  • Use MediaCodecAdapter supplied pixel aspect ratio values if provided when processing onOutputFormatChanged (#1371).
• Text:
  • Add a custom VoiceSpan and populate it for WebVTT voice spans (#1632).
• Image:
  • Add ExternallyLoadedImageDecoder for simplified integration with external image loading libraries like Glide or Coil.
• DataSource:
  • Add FileDescriptorDataSource, a new DataSource that can be used to read from a FileDescriptor (#3757).
• Effect:
  • Add DefaultVideoFrameProcessor workaround for minor SurfaceTexture scaling. SurfaceTexture may include a small scaling that cuts off a 1-texel border around the edge of a cropped buffer. This is now handled such that output is closer to expected.
  • Speed up DefaultVideoFrameProcessor.queueInputBitmap(). As a result, exporting images to videos with Transformer is faster.
• IMA extension:
  • Fix bug where clearing the playlist may cause an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in ImaServerSideAdInsertionMediaSource.
• Session:
  • Add MediaButtonReceiver.shouldStartForegroundService(Intent) to allow apps to suppress a play command coming in for playback resumption by overriding this method. By default, the service is always started and playback can't be suppressed without the system crashing the service with a ForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException (#1528).
• DASH Extension:
  • Add support for periods starting in the middle of a segment (#1440).
• Decoder Extensions (FFmpeg, VP9, AV1, etc.):
  • Add the IAMF decoder module, which provides support for playback of MP4 files containing IAMF tracks using the libiamf native library to synthesize audio.
    • Playback is enabled with a stereo layout as well as 5.1 with spatialization together with optional head tracking enabled, but binaural playback support is currently not available.
• Cast Extension:
  • Stop clearning the timeline after the CastSession disconnects, which enables the sender app to resume playback locally after a disconnection.
  • Populate CastPlayer's DeviceInfo when a Context is provided. This enables linking the MediaSession to a RoutingSession, which is necessary for integrating Output Switcher (#1056).
• Test Utilities:
  • DataSourceContractTest now includes tests to verify:
    • Input stream read position is updated.
    • Output buffer offset is applied correctly.
• Remove deprecated symbols:
  • Remove deprecated Player.hasPrevious, Player.hasPreviousWindow(). Use Player.hasPreviousMediaItem() instead.
  • Remove deprecated Player.previous()method. Use Player.seekToPreviousMediaItem() instead.
  • Remove deprecated DrmSessionEventListener.onDrmSessionAcquired method.

1.4.1

This release includes the following changes since the 1.4.0 release:

• ExoPlayer:
  • Handle preload callbacks asynchronously in PreloadMediaSource (#1568).
  • Allow playback regardless of buffered duration when loading fails (#1571).
• Extractors:
  • MP3: Fix Searched too many bytes error by correctly ignoring trailing non-MP3 data based on the length field in an Info frame (#1480).
• Text:
  • TTML: Fix handling of percentage tts:fontSize values to ensure they are correctly inherited from parent nodes with percentage tts:fontSize values.
  • Fix IndexOutOfBoundsException in LegacySubtitleUtil due to incorrectly handling the case of the requested output start time being greater than or equal to the final event time in the Subtitle (#1516).
• DRM:
  • Fix android.media.MediaCodec$CryptoException: Operation not supported in this configuration: ERROR_DRM_CANNOT_HANDLE error on API 31+ devices playing L1 Widevine content. This error is caused by an incomplete implementation of the framework MediaDrm.requiresSecureDecoder method (#1603).
• Effect:
  • Add a release() method to GlObjectsProvider.
• Session:
  • Transform a double-tap of KEYCODE_HEADSETHOOK into a 'seek to next' action, as documented (#1493).
  • Handle KEYCODE_HEADSETHOOK as a 'play' command in MediaButtonReceiver when deciding whether to ignore it to avoid a ForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException (#1581).
• RTSP Extension:
  • Skip invalid Media Descriptions in SDP parsing (#1087).

1.4.0

This release includes the following changes since the 1.3.1 release:

• Common Library:
  • Forward presumed no-op seek calls to the protected BasePlayer.seekTo() and SimpleBasePlayer.handleSeek() methods instead of ignoring them. If you are implementing these methods in a custom player, you may need to handle these additional calls with mediaItemIndex == C.INDEX_UNSET.
  • Remove compile dependency on enhanced Java 8 desugaring (#1312).
  • Ensure the duration passed to MediaItem.Builder.setImageDurationMs() is ignored for a non-image MediaItem (as documented).
  • Add Format.customData to store app-provided custom information about Format instances.
• ExoPlayer:
  • Add BasePreloadManager which coordinates the preloading for multiple sources based on the priorities defined by their rankingData. Customization is possible by extending this class. Add DefaultPreloadManager which uses PreloadMediaSource to preload media samples of the sources into memory, and uses an integer rankingData that indicates the index of an item on the UI.
  • Add PlayerId to most methods of LoadControl to enable LoadControl implementations to support multiple players.
  • Remove Buffer.isDecodeOnly() and C.BUFFER_FLAG_DECODE_ONLY. There is no need to set this flag as renderers and decoders will decide to skip buffers based on timestamp. Custom Renderer implementations should check if the buffer time is at least BaseRenderer.getLastResetPositionUs() to decide whether a sample should be shown. Custom SimpleDecoder implementations can check isAtLeastOutputStartTimeUs() if needed or mark other buffers with DecoderOutputBuffer.shouldBeSkipped to skip them.
  • Allow a null value to be returned by TargetPreloadStatusControl.getTargetPreloadStatus(T) to indicate not to preload a MediaSource with the given rankingData.
  • Add remove(MediaSource) to BasePreloadManager.
  • Add reset() to BasePreloadManager to release all the holding sources while keep the preload manager instance.
  • Add ExoPlayer.setPriority() (and Builder.setPriority()) to define the priority value used in PriorityTaskManager and for MediaCodec importance from API 35.
  • Fix issue with updating the last rebuffer time which resulted in incorrect bs (buffer starvation) key in CMCD (#1124).
  • Add PreloadMediaSource.PreloadControl.onLoadedToTheEndOfSource(PreloadMediaSource) to indicate that the source has loaded to the end. This allows the DefaultPreloadManager and the custom PreloadMediaSource.PreloadControl implementations to preload the next source or take other actions.
  • Fix bug where silence skipping at the end of items can trigger a playback exception.
  • Add clear to PreloadMediaSource to discard the preloading period.
  • Add new error code PlaybackException.ERROR_CODE_DECODING_RESOURCES_RECLAIMED that is used when codec resources are reclaimed for higher priority tasks.
  • Let AdsMediaSource load preroll ads before initial content media preparation completes (#1358).
  • Fix bug where playback moved to STATE_ENDED when re-preparing a multi-period DASH live stream after the original period was already removed from the manifest.
  • Rename onTimelineRefreshed() to onSourcePrepared() and onPrepared() to onTracksSelected() in PreloadMediaSource.PreloadControl. Also rename the IntDefs in DefaultPreloadManager.Stage accordingly.
  • Add experimental support for dynamic scheduling to better align work with CPU wake-cycles and delay waking up to when renderers can progress. You can enable this using experimentalSetDynamicSchedulingEnabled() when setting up your ExoPlayer instance.
  • Add Renderer.getDurationToProgressUs(). A Renderer can implement this method to return to ExoPlayer the duration that playback must advance for the renderer to progress. If ExoPlayer is set with experimentalSetDynamicSchedulingEnabled() then ExoPlayer will call this method when calculating the time to schedule its work task.
  • Add MediaCodecAdapter#OnBufferAvailableListener to alert when input and output buffers are available for use by MediaCodecRenderer. MediaCodecRenderer will signal ExoPlayer when receiving these callbacks and if ExoPlayer is set with experimentalSetDynamicSchedulingEnabled(), then ExoPlayer will schedule its work loop as renderers can make progress.
  • Use data class for LoadControl methods instead of individual parameters.
  • Add ExoPlayer.isReleased() to check whether Exoplayer.release() has been called.
  • Add ExoPlayer.Builder.setMaxSeekToPreviousPositionMs() to configure the maximum position for which seekToPrevious() seeks to the previous item (#1425).
  • Fix some audio focus inconsistencies, e.g. not reporting full or transient focus loss while the player is paused (#1436).
  • Fix potential IndexOutOfBoundsException caused by extractors reporting additional tracks after the initial preparation step (#1476).
  • Effects in ExoPlayer.setVideoEffect() will receive the timestamps with the renderer offset removed (#1098).
  • Fix potential IllegalArgumentException when handling player error that happened while reading ahead into another playlist item (#1483).
• Transformer:
  • Add audioConversionProcess and videoConversionProcess to ExportResult indicating how the respective track in the output file was made.
  • Relax trim optimization H.264 level checks.
  • Add support for changing between SDR and HDR input media in a sequence.
  • Add support for composition-level audio effects.
  • Add support for transcoding Ultra HDR images into HDR videos.
  • Fix issue where the DefaultAudioMixer does not output the correct amount of bytes after being reset and reused.
  • Work around a decoder bug where the number of audio channels was capped at stereo when handling PCM input.
  • When selecting tracks in ExoPlayerAssetLoader, ignore audio channel count constraints as they only apply for playback.
  • Replace androidx.media3.transformer.Muxer interface with androidx.media3.muxer.Muxer and remove androidx.media3.transformer.Muxer.
  • Fix HEIC image loading from content URI schemes (#1373).
  • Adjust audio track duration in AudioGraphInput to improve AV sync.
  • Remove ExportResult.processedInputs field. If you use this field for codec details, then use DefaultDecoderFactory.listener instead. In case of a codec exception, codec details will be available in the ExportException.codecInfo.
• Extractors:
  • MPEG-TS: Roll forward the change ensuring the last frame is rendered by passing the last access unit of a stream to the sample queue (#7909). Incorporating fixes to resolve the issues that emerged in I-frame only HLS streams(#1150) and H.262 HLS streams (#1126).
  • MP3: Prefer the data size from an Info frame over the size reported by the underlying stream (e.g. file size, or HTTP Content-Length header). This helps to exclude non-playable trailer data (e.g. album artwork) from constant bitrate seeking calculations, making seeks more accurate (#1376).
  • MP3: Use the frame count and other data in an Info frame (if present) to compute an average bitrate for constant bitrate seeking, rather than extrapolating from the bitrate of the frame after the Info frame, which may be artificially small, e.g. PCUT frame (#1376).
  • Fix PCM audio format extraction in AVI containers.
• Audio:
  • Fix DTS:X Profile 2 encoding attributes for passthrough playback (#1299).
  • For offloaded playback, reset the tracking field for stream completion in DefaultAudioSink prior to calling AudioTrack.stop() so that AudioTrack.StreamEventCallback#onPresentationEnded correctly identifies when all pending data has been played.
  • Fix bug in SilenceSkippingAudioProcessor where transitions between different audio formats (for example stereo to mono) can cause the processor to throw an exception (#1352).
  • Implement MediaCodecAudioRenderer.getDurationToProgressUs() so that ExoPlayer will dynamically schedule its main work loop to when the MediaCodecAudioRenderer can make progress.
• Video:
  • Fix issue where Listener.onRenderedFirstFrame() arrives too early when switching surfaces mid-playback.
  • Fix decoder fallback logic for Dolby Vision to use a compatible AV1 decoder if needed (#1389).
  • Fix codec exception that may be caused by enabling a video renderer mid-playback.
• Text:
  • Fix issue where subtitles starting before a seek position are skipped. This issue was only introduced in Media3 1.4.0-alpha01.
  • Change default subtitle parsing behavior so it happens during extraction instead of during rendering (see ExoPlayer's architecture diagram for the difference between extraction and rendering).
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1.4.0-rc01

This release includes the following changes since the 1.4.0-beta01 release:

• Common Library:
  • Add Format.customData to store app-provided custom information about Format instances.
• ExoPlayer:
  • Fix some audio focus inconsistencies, e.g. not reporting full or transient focus loss while the player is paused (#1436).
  • Fix potential IndexOutOfBoundsException caused by extractors reporting additional tracks after the initial preparation step (#1476).
  • Effects in ExoPlayer.setVideoEffect() will receive the timestamps with the renderer offset removed (#1098).
  • Fix potential IllegalArgumentException when handling player error that happened while reading ahead into another playlist item (#1483).
• Text:
  • Fix an IllegalArgumentException from LegacySubtitleUtil when a WebVTT subtitle sample contains no cues, e.g. as part of a DASH stream (#1516).
• Session:
  • Allow the session activity to be set per controller to override the global session activity. The session activity can be defined for a controller at connection time by creating a ConnectionResult with AcceptedResultBuilder.setSessionActivivty(PendingIntent). Once connected, the session activity can be updated with MediaSession.setSessionActivity(ControllerInfo, PendingIntent).
  • Improve error replication of calls to MediaLibrarySession.Callback. Error replication can now be configured by using MediaLibrarySession.Builder.setLibraryErrorReplicationMode() for choosing the error type or opt-ing out of error replication which is on by default.
• UI:
  • Work around a platform bug causing stretched/cropped video when using SurfaceView inside a Compose AndroidView on API 34 (#1237).
• Demo app:
  • Use HttpEngineDataSource as the HttpDataSource when supported by the device.