Is there a non-youtube example to implement DASH using ExoPlayer?

Question

Hi I am looking for an example to configure ExoPlayer for DASH. But the example I found uses Youtube videos. Is there an example on videos which are not on youtube? Can DASH be configured for any video on the internet?

Answer 1

Yes, ExoPlayer can play any DASH, SmoothStreaming, HLS or MP4 Progressive download over HTTP URLs. The demo application provided in ExoPlayer source code can be modified to add any video that will be shown in the startup Activity. To do that, edit https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/blob/master/demo/src/main/java/com/google/android/exoplayer/demo/Samples.java file to add a new sample set. Example:

public static final Sample[] CUSTOM_DASH_VIDEOS = new Sample[] {
   new Sample("Some User friendly name of video 1",
    "http://www.somewhere.com/somecontent.mpd?param1=val1&param2=val2", DemoUtil.TYPE_DASH),
   new Sample("Some User friendly name of video 2",
   "http://www.somewhere.com/somecontent.mpd?param1=val1&param2=val2", DemoUtil.TYPE_DASH),
};

Now, in https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/blob/master/demo/src/main/java/com/google/android/exoplayer/demo/SampleChooserActivity.java add a new row in sample adapter.

sampleAdapter.add(new Header("Custom DASH Videos"));
sampleAdapter.addAll((Object[]) Samples.CUSTOM_DASH_VIDEOS);

Hope this answers your question.