Ian Baker

Your current approach of using two independent players is likely required if you ever want both videos to play simultaneously (e.g. while transitioning between the two). The only way to...

> Are you saying that just preloading the next video(2) into another player(2) instance requires a decoder? ExoPlayer's default behaviour when you call `Player.prepare()` is to prepare all the resources...

> Even if the playWhenReady is false though, it will acquire a decoder, right? That's correct. The value of `playWhenReady` has no effect on the ['state'](https://exoplayer.dev/doc/reference/com/google/android/exoplayer2/Player.State.html) of the player (idle,...

Closing due to inactivity

The media link provided over email returns a 403 for me when I try and fetch it with curl.

The media link provided over email returns a 403 for me when I try and fetch it with curl.

The provided URL still returns 403 when I manually switch the `$` with `%24`. Please provide a working repro URL (ideally one I don't need to manually adjust before using...

The new media link resolves. I introduced the described track selections using `RandomTrackSelection.Factory` by adding the `setTrackSelector` line below in `PlayerActivity.initializePlayer`: ```java ExoPlayer.Builder playerBuilder = new ExoPlayer.Builder(/* context= */ this)...

> Is there any news on a working demo that implements notifications, background services and metadata handling? You may find it easier to use media3 rather than ExoPlayer (media3 is...

I'm going to close this because it looks like you're getting media3 help in e.g. https://github.com/androidx/media/issues/197