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Which HLS versions are supported by Exoplayer?

Open jonathanlassen opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Which HLS versions are fully supported by Exoplayer? Alternatively, which features of the most recent non-draft version (15) are NOT supported by Exoplayer? I have been unable to locate this information. Asked in the video-dev Slack space, was referred here.

Thanks!

jonathanlassen avatar Jun 25 '24 13:06 jonathanlassen

ExoPlayer doesn't generally claim to support all features covered by specific profiles of versions of specifications, preferring instead to focus on implementing support for the features that are most demanded by our community of developers. This way we can ensure we're investing in features that people will actually use, rather than implementing potentially unused features just to fulfil a particular profile or version of a spec.

I would suggest the best way to determine if a feature that you're interested in is supported is to simply try it with a playlist containing the feature.

You can see some more detail on the reasoning behind this approach here: https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues/8010#issuecomment-706364494

icbaker avatar Jun 28 '24 14:06 icbaker