Exo player DASH Streaming example

Question

I'm trying to play DASH video on android devices with the ExoPlayer from Google (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/exoplayer.html). The documentation is very, very poor and I cannot find some simplest working example with DASH (if someone did it). In the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VjF638VObA#t=462) it looks simple but in reality there is a lot of unknown objects. I want to use only ExoPlayer library and without using their github demo because it is very complex and I didn't find a way to add my testing URL because all samples are from YouTube.

Thanks

Solution

Here is a simple dash playing example which will play your stream content into SimpleExoPlayerView from exoplayer-ui.

Add SimpleExoPlayerView to your layout and use the code below

    SimpleExoPlayerView exoPlayerView = (SimpleExoPlayerView) findViewById(R.id.exo_player_view);

    DataSource.Factory dataSourceFactory = new DefaultDataSourceFactory(this, Util.getUserAgent(this, "ExoPlayer"));
    Uri uri = Uri.parse("http://your_host/dash/stream.mpd");
    DashMediaSource dashMediaSource = new DashMediaSource(uri, dataSourceFactory,
            new DefaultDashChunkSource.Factory(dataSourceFactory), null, null);

    BandwidthMeter bandwidthMeter = new DefaultBandwidthMeter();
    TrackSelector trackSelector = new DefaultTrackSelector(new AdaptiveTrackSelection.Factory(bandwidthMeter));

    SimpleExoPlayer simpleExoPlayer = ExoPlayerFactory.newSimpleInstance(this, trackSelector);

    exoPlayerView.setPlayer(simpleExoPlayer);
    simpleExoPlayer.prepare(dashMediaSource);

Also add the dependencies to your build.gradle

compile 'com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-core:r2.4.0'
compile 'com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-dash:r2.4.0'
compile 'com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-hls:r2.4.0'
compile 'com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-smoothstreaming:r2.4.0'
compile 'com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-ui:r2.4.0'

Comments

[Bawender Yandra]

The usage of Dash MediaSource in ExoPlayer is written right, but I think you don't need to add all the dependencies in the gradle as it will include all the sources. These Individual dependencies were released to be used by user by his or her requirement. including the following will suffice compile 'com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-core:r2.4.0' compile 'com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-dash:r2.4.0' compile 'com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-ui:r2.4.0'

[Sagar]

@BawenderYandra I have something here stackoverflow.com/questions/48920678/… please check. I am new to this

[Web.11]

@alijandro can you send another ocde for 2.9.4 ?

[Arjun]

I tried your solution but am getting the following error ~> Source error.com.google.android.exoplayer2.ParserException: org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: Unexpected token (position:TEXT ������ ftypisom������...@3:25 in java.io.InputStreamReader@8bd3c66)