3 Pull requests merged by 2 people

• Fix release notes for 1.8.0-alpha01

  #2425 merged Jul 23, 2025

• Provide context to onForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException

  #2625 merged Jul 23, 2025

• Remove the inexistant lib-datasource-httpengine module

  #2633 merged Jul 21, 2025

7 Pull requests opened by 5 people

• Add `SphericalGLSurfaceView` support to `PlayerSurface`

  #2619 opened Jul 17, 2025

• Read AccessibilityManager to automatically select audio description track Android 13

  #2620 opened Jul 17, 2025

• fix build guide

  #2621 opened Jul 17, 2025

• session: Avoid ForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException...

  #2626 opened Jul 17, 2025

• test: Flush ui thread runnables before testing its result

  #2628 opened Jul 18, 2025

• Make MediaControllerImplBase local binder aware

  #2642 opened Jul 23, 2025

• Asynchronously connect to media3 controllers

  #2643 opened Jul 23, 2025

20 Issues closed by 13 people

• how can we dynamically change effects in compositionplayer

  #2532 closed Jul 23, 2025

• Support multiple video sequences in CompositionPlayer

  #1488 closed Jul 23, 2025

• get currentMediaItemIndex while using concatenatingMediaSource2

  #1100 closed Jul 23, 2025

• Lock screen control not showing song details as shown in notification

  #199 closed Jul 23, 2025

• Provide artwork downloaded and used for the notification to the UI module (PlayerView)

  #195 closed Jul 23, 2025

• Ability to use setDebugViewProvider in Transformer.Builder without the need to create an Output file

  #816 closed Jul 23, 2025

• How to call setMediaSource method by MediaController with ConcatenatingMediaSource2?

  #2627 closed Jul 22, 2025

• OpenGL Processing with multiple renderers

  #2455 closed Jul 21, 2025

• FlacExtractor can detect spurious/garbage FLAC frame headers within encoded FLAC data

  #558 closed Jul 21, 2025

• getShuffleOrder() in MediaLibrarySession, mediacontroller etc

  #2635 closed Jul 21, 2025

• [Doc update] MediaControllerCompat.Callback#onPlaybackStateChanged

  #2571 closed Jul 21, 2025

• FFMPEG extension build script error?

  #2632 closed Jul 20, 2025

• Codec Error on Supported Track Playback

  #2281 closed Jul 20, 2025

• Postpone

  #2630 closed Jul 19, 2025

• mistake

  #2629 closed Jul 18, 2025

• Is Transformer suitable for live transcoding? or is there another suggested solution?

  #2600 closed Jul 18, 2025

• IncompatibleClassChangeError: Conflicting default method implementations void AudioRendererEventListener.onAudioSessionIdChanged(int)

  #2624 closed Jul 18, 2025

• Invalid URls in the surface documentation

  #2615 closed Jul 17, 2025

• Player makes license request in the same session after a short pause & seek to live edge for live drm content

  #2533 closed Jul 17, 2025

• Jetpack Media3 MediaController not working with SimpleBasePlayer - timelines don't match

  #2607 closed Jul 17, 2025

13 Issues opened by 13 people

• Byte Range Support for Progressive Media Playback

  #2641 opened Jul 23, 2025

• MetadataRetriever#retrieveDurationUs hanging

  #2640 opened Jul 23, 2025

• mediaStatus.queueItems.count() always returns 2 items after adding multiple items via CastPlayer or RemoteMediaClient

  #2639 opened Jul 23, 2025

• Compose PlayerSurface extends beyond bounds Android 11 and older

  #2638 opened Jul 22, 2025

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

  #2637 opened Jul 22, 2025

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

  #2636 opened Jul 22, 2025

• Audio tracks not selectable in HLS playlist

  #2634 opened Jul 20, 2025

• Transformation builder doesn't support converting audio files to WAV, though Exoplayer can play WAV.

  #2631 opened Jul 18, 2025

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

  #2623 opened Jul 17, 2025

• onPlaybackResumption() returning empty list leads to hard-to-debug ForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException

  #2622 opened Jul 17, 2025

• 1.8.0 rc01 av1 decoder build failed via github action

  #2618 opened Jul 17, 2025

• Android Auto MediaLibraryService: Pagination Not Respected in onGetChildren

  #2617 opened Jul 17, 2025

• Unexpected runtime error: IllegalStateException after ExoPlaybackException: MediaCodecAudioRenderer

  #2616 opened Jul 17, 2025

29 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.

• Fix RTL punctuation marks issues with mixed BiDi subtitles

  #2553 commented on Jul 21, 2025 • 6 new comments

• Bump Robolectric to 4.15.1

  #2590 commented on Jul 21, 2025 • 4 new comments

• Always sort AdaptationSets by mimeType

  #2612 commented on Jul 18, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Exclude AC4Profile22 from estimated AC-4 profiles on automotive

  #2609 commented on Jul 18, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Add detection for DTS-HD audio tracks in MatroskaExtractor

  #2485 commented on Jul 19, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Implement an FfmpegVideoRenderer

  #1591 commented on Jul 17, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #2040 commented on Jul 24, 2025 • 0 new comments

• How to increase download speed with ExoPlayer downloader

  #2584 commented on Jul 23, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #2605 commented on Jul 23, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Offline playback widevine L1 failed using exoplayer demo

  #2481 commented on Jul 23, 2025 • 0 new comments

• setMetadata causing ANR across many devices

  #2577 commented on Jul 23, 2025 • 0 new comments

• ExoPlayer shows new frames during pause on SSAI live stream with DASH manifest updates

  #2523 commented on Jul 23, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Close DataSource after some idle time (to avoid long-running connections for progressive media loads)

  #188 commented on Jul 23, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Multi Audio Streams/Track with Smooth Switching

  #2581 commented on Jul 22, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Mp3Extractor: Support files with (slightly) incorrectly declared ID3 tag lengths

  #811 commented on Jul 22, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [Transformer] Question about the default strategy of adjusting profile level h264 encoder could cause compatible issue

  #2603 commented on Jul 22, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Decoder failed: c2.goldfish.hevc.decoder Video codec error on Android13 virtual Device

  #2461 commented on Jul 22, 2025 • 0 new comments

• OOM probably due to bad file

  #1109 commented on Jul 21, 2025 • 0 new comments

• IndexOutOfBoundsException handleSetMediaItems

  #2335 commented on Jul 21, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Is possible to change video effect dynamically ?

  #1393 commented on Jul 21, 2025 • 0 new comments

• iTunes TTML for Lyrics support

  #1935 commented on Jul 21, 2025 • 0 new comments

• DownloadService issue with new behavior android 15

  #2614 commented on Jul 21, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Blocked UI when using large playlists

  #81 commented on Jul 20, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Support delayed focus gain when starting playback during a call

  #1716 commented on Jul 19, 2025 • 0 new comments

• ExoPlayer can get stuck in buffering state if a decoder only returns output buffers with shouldBeSkipped

  #2611 commented on Jul 18, 2025 • 0 new comments

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

  #2613 commented on Jul 18, 2025 • 0 new comments

• onPlaybackResumption() returning exception leads to hard-to-debug ForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException

  #2591 commented on Jul 17, 2025 • 0 new comments

• xHE-AAC DRC and Loudness Support

  #2497 commented on Jul 17, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Playback resumption - How to opt-out at runtime?

  #770 commented on Jul 17, 2025 • 0 new comments