Exoplayer: How to use OkHttpDataSource

[palrahul]

Am trying to figure out if/how to replace DefaultHttpDataSource with OkHttpDataSource

Was trying to evaluate the Okhttp for performance and other usecases.

[b95505017]

Checkout my branch which use OkHttp 2.x
https://github.com/b95505017/ExoPlayer/tree/okhttp_http_data_source

I'll upgrade to 3.x after Facebook's Stetho supporting OkHttp 3.x.

[palrahul]

thanks this works great, any plans to submit this as a PR

[ojw28]

I'm unclear as to why you don't just take the existing demo app and replace each instantiation of DefaultUriDataSource so that instead of this:

DataSource dataSource = new DefaultUriDataSource(context, bandwidthMeter, userAgent);

You have this:

DataSource dataSource = new DefaultUriDataSource(context, bandwidthMeter,
    new OkHttpDataSource(okHttpClient, userAgent, null, bandwidthMeter));

Is it just a matter of documenting this more clearly somewhere?

[b95505017]

I'm too stupid...... You're right.

[b95505017]

@biodatacomp check this out
https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/pull/735#issuecomment-133878962
That's why I didn't submit as PR. :)

[ojw28]

Let's use this issue to track adding documentation to the corresponding Readme file.

[b95505017]

@biodatacomp I've force update my branch to match up with ExoPlayer 1.5.4, including OkHttp3 & Stetho.

[mkjensen]

I see that OkHttpDataSource is included with the source code but I'm a bit confused about how to get it via a normal dependency like e.g. compile 'com.google.android.exoplayer:extension-okhttp:r1.5.6'. It seems like that is not possible at the moment?

I'm asking for this approach since I think it works nicely for e.g. Glide by using compile 'com.github.bumptech.glide:okhttp-integration:1.4.0@aar'.

[ojw28]

This enhancement is tracking:

1. Adding a sentence or two to the extension readme.
2. Making the extension available via BinTray.

[ojw28]

In theory it should now be possible to include the OkHttp extension for V2 with:

compile 'com.google.android.exoplayer:extension-okhttp:r2.0.1'

Bintray link here. This doesn't seem to work for me at the moment. I'm unclear whether there's just a propagation delay in it being indexed, or whether something else is wrong. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know!

[b95505017]

Could not find ExoPlayer:library:unspecified.

Caused by

    <dependency>
      <groupId>ExoPlayer</groupId>
      <artifactId>library</artifactId>
      <version>unspecified</version>
      <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>

[ojw28]

Yeah. Hence the "This doesn't seem to work for me at the moment" part...!

[b95505017]

The path should be the jCenter one

    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.google.android.exoplayer</groupId>
      <artifactId>exoplayer</artifactId>
      <version>r2.0.1</version>
    </dependency>

[ojw28]

I don't really understand what you mean. Have you spotted an error? If so, please clarify exactly what it is.

[ojw28]

Ah, I see the problem now. I'm not entirely sure how to fix how that gets generated as part of the release process, but will take a look.

[b95505017]

Yes, we should do some trick to prevent compile project(":library") being wrote into pom. It should transform to jcenter artifact path.
Maybe checkout Firebase-UI project.

[ojw28]

It's possible that using https://github.com/bintray/gradle-bintray-plugin instead of https://github.com/novoda/bintray-release resolves this problem. It looks like https://github.com/novoda/bintray-release/issues/16 is tracking supporting this case for bintray-release.

[ojw28]

I've manually fixed the POM file for now, so the following should work:

compile 'com.google.android.exoplayer:extension-okhttp:r2.0.1'

Note that if you tried whilst it was broken, you may have to do some cache wiping on your machine. File->InvalidateCaches in Android Studio wasn't sufficient for me. Neither was deleting the .gradle directory in the project. I had to also delete the .gradle directory from my home directory (disclaimer: I don't know what the consequences are of doing that; so do it at your own risk; I just know that it helped for me!).

[ypresto]

I tried compile 'com.google.android.exoplayer:extension-okhttp:r1.5.14' because I'm relying on library which still uses ExoPlayer v1, but I found there is no such version of extension.
Is there any plans to release it for v1?

[ojw28]

The OkHttp extension can be built from source for V1, but we will not be distributing it via Bintray/JCenter. We do distribute it for V2.