10 Pull requests merged by 7 people

• Parse ALAC bit depth from initialization data

  #2738 merged Aug 26, 2025

• Removed redundant dependency in shortform demo

  #2721 merged Aug 18, 2025

• Do not flush eac3(joc) decoder on reuse

  #1346 merged Aug 14, 2025

• Add detection for DTS-HD audio tracks in MatroskaExtractor

  #2485 merged Aug 7, 2025

• Bump Robolectric to 4.15.1

  #2590 merged Aug 6, 2025

• Remove outdated qualifiers on resources folders

  #2685 merged Aug 5, 2025

• Remove duplicated Modifier usages in :demos:compose

  #2654 merged Aug 5, 2025

• fix build guide

  #2621 merged Aug 5, 2025

• Remove outdated SDK references

  #2693 merged Aug 4, 2025

• Fix text color in :demo:session

  #2694 merged Aug 4, 2025

5 Pull requests opened by 4 people

• Add `MetadataState` to `:ui:compose`

  #2700 opened Aug 6, 2025

• Align demo apps title

  #2709 opened Aug 10, 2025

• Make shortform demo work on TV

  #2720 opened Aug 15, 2025

• Use stereo channel mask for AC-4 passthrough

  #2734 opened Aug 19, 2025

• Fix DefaultVideoCompositor deadlock during media item transitions

  #2744 opened Aug 25, 2025

52 Issues closed by 17 people

• Media3 SeekBar Preview on HLS MediaItem

  #2521 closed Aug 29, 2025

• Ability to mention releaseVersion and releaseVersionCode via gradle command arguments

  #2705 closed Aug 29, 2025

• Using a MediaLibrarySession with multiple Players and switching based on content type

  #2623 closed Aug 29, 2025

• Slow Frame Extraction with MediaMetadataRetriever — Need Efficient Way to Extract Frames from Local Videos

  #2714 closed Aug 29, 2025

• hls drm not supported

  #2747 closed Aug 27, 2025

• How do we know song has actually started playing.

  #2740 closed Aug 27, 2025

• The audio track cannot be recognized correctly.

  #2737 closed Aug 27, 2025

• Calling Player#prepare in STATE_IDLE ignores targetLiveOffset

  #2606 closed Aug 26, 2025

• Is possible to change video effect dynamically ?

  #1393 closed Aug 25, 2025

• MetadataRetriever#retrieveDurationUs hanging

  #2640 closed Aug 22, 2025

• RTSP 302 redirection issue

  #2644 closed Aug 22, 2025

• Queue Metadata Updates All Items

  #2649 closed Aug 22, 2025

• AnalyticsListener for multiple video renderers

  #2651 closed Aug 22, 2025

• Segments not being loaded on time during backward seeking with speed x16

  #1922 closed Aug 22, 2025

• How to stream async byte array chunks into ExoPlayer via MediaController (using MediaSession architecture)?

  #2601 closed Aug 22, 2025

• Android Auto MediaLibraryService: Pagination Not Respected in onGetChildren

  #2617 closed Aug 22, 2025

• Huawei w/ Android 12: Bluetooth calls/recording while playing audio triggers an audioserver crash followed by device ANR

  #2726 closed Aug 21, 2025

• Player.Listener#onAudioSessionIdChanged(int) is not passed through MediaController, leading in silent failure

  #2739 closed Aug 21, 2025

• presentationTimeUs in TextureOverlay is relative to startPositionMs

  #2727 closed Aug 21, 2025

• Offline playback widevine L1 failed using exoplayer demo

  #2481 closed Aug 20, 2025

• SetVideoSurface will cause paused videos to be drawn a few frames forward

  #2733 closed Aug 19, 2025

• drm does not contain KeyId entered mpd file

  #2728 closed Aug 19, 2025

• Stremio

  #2725 closed Aug 19, 2025

• Confusion about requirements to URI stored in MediaMetadata.artworkUri

  #2331 closed Aug 18, 2025

• MediaSession Controls on Picture in picture.

  #2723 closed Aug 18, 2025

• Feature Request: Secure Remote Screen Sharing Functionality for Media Libraries

  #2722 closed Aug 15, 2025

• Remove redundant appcompat line in shortform demo build.gradle

  #2717 closed Aug 15, 2025

• UnrecognizedInputFormatException: None of the available extractors

  #2567 closed Aug 14, 2025

• MediaNotificationManager retains service after onDestroy is called

  #2692 closed Aug 13, 2025

• Progress bar flickering when playing live stream with DVR

  #2574 closed Aug 12, 2025

• Compose PlayerSurface getting a black background colour Android 11 and older on emulators

  #2638 closed Aug 12, 2025

• PlayPauseButtonState has a likely race

  #2313 closed Aug 12, 2025

• [Feature Request] Add Timebar to Media3 Compose UI Demo

  #2288 closed Aug 12, 2025

• Unknown Kotlin JVM target: 21

  #2051 closed Aug 12, 2025

• ExoPlayer IMA module, when playing ad, it preloads the original video content but not the correct resolution content

  #2684 closed Aug 12, 2025

• Media notification is swipable while playback is ongoing on pixel os 15

  #2697 closed Aug 11, 2025

• Hello, we encountered an issue while using exoplayer hard decoding to play RTSP video streams

  #2613 closed Aug 11, 2025

• Player$Listener.onMediaItemTransition error

  #2681 closed Aug 11, 2025

• MP2 track in MP4 container is incorrectly identified as MP3, resulting in (MP3) decoder failure

  #2683 closed Aug 11, 2025

• playing exo files

  #2708 closed Aug 11, 2025

• Is it possible to get all frames presentation timestamps?

  #2691 closed Aug 10, 2025

• Adding `player#setVideoEffect(emptyList())` workaround causes hevc video to be stuck

  #1630 closed Aug 7, 2025

• Media3 1.6.0 messes up custom media buttons on android auto / media notification

  #2292 closed Aug 6, 2025

• MetadataRetriever#retrieveDurationUs leads to OOM

  #2650 closed Aug 6, 2025

• `onVideoSizeChanged` not called when `setVideoEffects` called.

  #2284 closed Aug 6, 2025

• Can we preview transformer Composition without generating an output video file

  #1185 closed Aug 6, 2025

• 1.8.0 rc01 av1 decoder build failed via github action

  #2618 closed Aug 5, 2025

• Unexpected runtime error

  #2696 closed Aug 4, 2025

• Cannot play stream with HLS

  #2695 closed Aug 4, 2025

• DASH playback fails with a data: manifest URI due to CmcdData.removeFromUri

  #2688 closed Aug 4, 2025

• On some Android TV devices, the hardware decoding performance cannot be fully utilized, leading to abnormal HDR10 decoding.

  #2557 closed Aug 4, 2025

• MotionPhotoDescription.java ，MotionPhotoDescription.java The access permissions of a package should not be restricted; instead, they should be exposed.

  #2687 closed Aug 1, 2025

28 Issues opened by 25 people

• androidx.media3.transformer.ExportException when trying to compress video on Redmi 8A

  #2751 opened Aug 31, 2025

• java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Out of range: 4972007364548

  #2750 opened Aug 30, 2025

• Allow HLSInterstitialAdsLoader to re-request ad pods when seeking backwards.

  #2749 opened Aug 28, 2025

• How to properly force seekToNextMediaItem during advert playing

  #2748 opened Aug 27, 2025

• Crash when player.removeMediaItems near to switching to postroll (advert at C.TIME_END_OF_SOURCE)

  #2746 opened Aug 27, 2025

• CodecException when transcoding AVC -> AVC

  #2745 opened Aug 25, 2025

• Bandwidth meter reporting wrong speeds when used with HttpLoggingInterceptor

  #2743 opened Aug 25, 2025

• Composition Player gets stuck during sequence transition when using MultipleInputVideoGraph

  #2742 opened Aug 25, 2025

• Allow setting `maxSeekToPreviousPositionMs` after intialization

  #2736 opened Aug 19, 2025

• Playback issue with offload

  #2735 opened Aug 19, 2025

• Add support for CMCD v2 in Media3

  #2732 opened Aug 19, 2025

• Integrating `androidx/media` sources into external project fails with missing `R$string package`

  #2731 opened Aug 17, 2025

• Large playlist loading issue - is there a callback for completion of addmediaitems?- specifically with audio tracks

  #2724 opened Aug 16, 2025

• PTS start from N second,the player will wait for N second before it plays

  #2719 opened Aug 15, 2025

• Make shortform demo work on Android TV

  #2718 opened Aug 15, 2025

• Facing similar issue Low resolution on HD streams with other device similar to since v2.18.2 #693 #1619

  #2715 opened Aug 14, 2025

• MP3 file cannot be played by ExoPlayer, but can be played by Android MediaPlayer

  #2713 opened Aug 12, 2025

• IMA Extension, when user skips an ad, preloaded primary content is dropped and download again

  #2712 opened Aug 12, 2025

• H.265/HEVC Playback Fails on MediaTek Dimensity 700 / 900 / 1080 after Android 15 Upgrade

  #2711 opened Aug 11, 2025

• Is media3 support AI model, such as video super-resolution? When support AI model?

  #2710 opened Aug 11, 2025

• What are the best practices to reduce MediaCodecVideoRenderError in Android TV?

  #2707 opened Aug 9, 2025

• WebVTT thumbnail/trickplay support

  #2706 opened Aug 9, 2025

• Exoplayer IMA module, I find it strange to implement play/pause an ad(client side) by user click action only using exoplayer default google ima layout

  #2704 opened Aug 7, 2025

• ExoPlayer setVideoEffects causes freezes etc

  #2703 opened Aug 7, 2025

• L1 DRM Playback Fails with MediaCodecVideoDecoderException on MediaTek Devices (Vertical 9:16 Video)

  #2702 opened Aug 7, 2025

• RTSP SDP fmtp attribute parsing issue

  #2701 opened Aug 7, 2025

• transformer.getProgress get wrong progress after version 1.3.1 but it play well in version 1.1.1/1.2.1

  #2699 opened Aug 6, 2025

• AdsMediaSource with HLS content fails on progressive (MP4) ads with HlsPlaylistParser$ParserException

  #2698 opened Aug 6, 2025

51 Unresolved conversations

Sometimes conversations happen on old items that aren’t yet closed. Here is a list of all the Issues and Pull Requests with unresolved conversations.

• Add `SphericalGLSurfaceView` support to `PlayerSurface`

  #2619 commented on Aug 6, 2025 • 12 new comments

• All (28!) image based subtitle tracks are parsed to Bitmap objects, even when none are selected for playback, resulting in stuttery video playback

  #2667 commented on Aug 1, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Duplicate MediaSession

  #451 commented on Aug 19, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Firestick 4k max (files with hdr10+ and dolby vision profile 8.1)

  #1895 commented on Aug 19, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Enable heuristic character set detection for SRT subtitles

  #2247 commented on Aug 20, 2025 • 0 new comments

• ANR and Crash in the absence of PlaybackResumption support (Android 11 and bellow)

  #2543 commented on Aug 20, 2025 • 0 new comments

• More fine grained control over MediaButton events possible (e.g. LONGPRESS)?

  #2637 commented on Aug 22, 2025 • 0 new comments

• DRM Initialization Failure on SW32BUD4K Device Running Android 13 with Media3ExoPlayer

  #2040 commented on Aug 23, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Player Stalls on Live DASH Stream with SCTE-35 SpliceInsert in EventStream (No Ad Content Expected)

  #2636 commented on Aug 25, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Is it possible to enable the videotrack without a pause in the playback?

  #2316 commented on Aug 26, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Encoding Failed

  #2666 commented on Aug 26, 2025 • 0 new comments

• How to actually use PreloadManager

  #2165 commented on Aug 27, 2025 • 0 new comments

• W Controller isn't allowed to call command= 5

  #2321 commented on Aug 28, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Failed resolution of: LogSessionId

  #2535 commented on Aug 28, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Persistent Widevine L3 Playback Failures: OEMCrypto_DecryptCENC failed: status = 36

  #2605 commented on Aug 28, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Proper handling of specific DTS-HD profiles

  #2487 commented on Aug 29, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Can't Scroll Content in Android Auto with MediaBrowserService

  #2192 commented on Aug 31, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Implement an FfmpegVideoRenderer

  #1591 commented on Aug 28, 2025 • 0 new comments

• session: fix a deadlock due to onPlayRequested()

  #2256 commented on Aug 16, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Better support for PCM audio formats around DefaultAudioSink

  #2445 commented on Aug 16, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Add PCM_DOUBLE and DSD format

  #2500 commented on Aug 31, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Multi period content support for AdsMediaSource

  #2501 commented on Aug 22, 2025 • 0 new comments

• session: Avoid ForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException...

  #2626 commented on Aug 16, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Asynchronously connect to media3 controllers

  #2643 commented on Aug 16, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Move legacy session calls to a new thread

  #2648 commented on Aug 11, 2025 • 0 new comments

• MotionPhoto POC

  #2690 commented on Aug 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Support for playing Kotlin Multiplatform resources

  #1405 commented on Aug 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

• ExoPlayer can't resume playback after stopping Casting

  #2382 commented on Aug 4, 2025 • 0 new comments

• UI widgets - Allow viewing detailed item, playlist and timeline item metadata in Media3 Controller Test (testapps/controller)

  #2663 commented on Aug 5, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Multi Audio Streams/Track with Smooth Switching

  #2581 commented on Aug 5, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Unable to play three specific videos

  #2290 commented on Aug 6, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Transformer.start() should support Uri or OutputStream

  #850 commented on Aug 6, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Player Errors during Ad playback not are attributed correctly

  #2656 commented on Aug 6, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Unexpected runtime error: IllegalStateException after ExoPlaybackException: MediaCodecAudioRenderer

  #2616 commented on Aug 7, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Android Auto - Media3 and additional metadata indicators

  #2127 commented on Aug 8, 2025 • 0 new comments

• MediaSessionService onCreate ANR error

  #2030 commented on Aug 8, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Caused by androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlaybackException

  #932 commented on Aug 9, 2025 • 0 new comments

• HLS Video zoom-in when select a video track with higher resolution, and zoom-out when select a video track with lower resolution

  #1831 commented on Aug 10, 2025 • 0 new comments

• ExoPlayer may get wrong video size after switching video tracks.

  #2272 commented on Aug 10, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Support SCTE-35 in HLS

  #2560 commented on Aug 10, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Decoder Failed: c2.dolby.eac3.decoder

  #2307 commented on Aug 12, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Unable to customize media3 notification as per the tutorial

  #2679 commented on Aug 12, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Changing BitRate of a Video does not compress it

  #1992 commented on Aug 12, 2025 • 0 new comments

• How can a session be made inactive?

  #1501 commented on Aug 12, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Sessions demo in compose

  #2418 commented on Aug 12, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Composable APIs are error-prone when creating Player in composition

  #2270 commented on Aug 12, 2025 • 0 new comments

• A few video in a list overlap each other

  #1107 commented on Aug 12, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Video loaded from resources is stuck at BUFFERING state

  #1132 commented on Aug 13, 2025 • 0 new comments

• OnRoutingChangedListenerApi24::onRoutingChanged takes too long in ExoPlayer:ExoPlayer:Playback thread, result doSomeWork can not render frames timely.

  #2646 commented on Aug 15, 2025 • 0 new comments

• No video played when `setVideoEffects` called on NVIDIA Shield

  #1620 commented on Aug 16, 2025 • 0 new comments

• HLS: Black screen (audio only) despite supported video track

  #2519 commented on Aug 18, 2025 • 0 new comments