Small laggy when prepare exoplayer - android

In my application, I had an infinite animation. Actually, it's a TextSwitcher animation running from left to right. However, whenever I tried to prepare the player, I got a jitter issue with the text's animation. Although it's just a few milliseconds, it caused my texts was like jumping from left to right. Here's the prepare video method:
private fun prepareVideo(uri: Uri): SimpleExoPlayer? {
val simpleExoPlayer = SimpleExoPlayer
.Builder(this) // .setLoadControl(defaultLoadControl)
.build()
val mediaItem = MediaItem.fromUri(uri)
simpleExoPlayer.setMediaItem(mediaItem)
val eventListener: Player.EventListener = object : Player.EventListener {
override fun onPlaybackStateChanged(state: Int) {
if (state == ExoPlayer.STATE_READY) {
playVideo(simpleExoPlayer)
}
}
}
simpleExoPlayer.addListener(eventListener)
simpleExoPlayer.playWhenReady = false
simpleExoPlayer.prepare()
showToast("Prepare video")
return simpleExoPlayer
}
Do you guys have any idea to fix it?

If you thinks problem in this part of code i can recommend you to try initialize your SimpleExoPlayer object in application class and use it's instance all across application.

Try with this code
var exoPlayer: SimpleExoPlayer? = null
private fun setupVideo(uriString: String) {
val appName = R.string.app_name
val trackSelector: TrackSelector = DefaultTrackSelector()
val userAgent = context.let { Util.getUserAgent(it, it.getString(appName)) }
val sourceFactory = DefaultDataSourceFactory(requireContext(), userAgent)
val uri = Uri.parse(uriString)
val mediaSource = ProgressiveMediaSource.Factory(sourceFactory).createMediaSource(uri)
exoPlayer = ExoPlayerFactory.newSimpleInstance(context, trackSelector)
exoPlayer?.prepare(mediaSource)
exoPlayer?.playWhenReady = false
pvPlayer.player = exoPlayer
}

After quite some time investigating, I found the issue is creating an ExoPlayer instance.
val simpleExoPlayer = SimpleExoPlayer
.Builder(this) // .setLoadControl(defaultLoadControl)
.build()
Just this simple blook took about 0.1 seconds to finish. As a result, it froze the animation for a short period of time. I decided to create it on splash screen and reused it whenever possible.

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context,
defaultDataSourceFactory
)
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}
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trackSelectorParameters = builder.build()
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I am using exoplayer in my application. I am using it to play video from a url. What i am trying to do is that i have three different urls for high,medium and low quality of same the video, and i would like to let the user to be able to change the video quality manually.
{
"lowQualityUrl":"string url",
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}
In JWplayer there is an option to add different sources/url for different qualities. Is there something similar that can be done in exoplayer...?
Edit : I don't want to play videos one after another. I just want to switch to a different quality of the same video, like in youtube. But instead of using a single url for the source, what i have are 3 different urls for 3 qualities(low,medium,high) of the same video.
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I got this idea from another answer which was under this question,which had this github link, but i think the author deleted it.
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VideoPlayerConfig.kt
object VideoPlayerConfig {
//Minimum Video you want to buffer while Playing
val MIN_BUFFER_DURATION = 3000
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val MAX_BUFFER_DURATION = 5000
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val MIN_PLAYBACK_START_BUFFER = 1500
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val MIN_PLAYBACK_RESUME_BUFFER = 5000
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VideoQuality.kt
You can change this class according to your need. I need to store exactly 3 urls for low,medium and high quality urls. And i needed to show them in that order as well in the spinner.
class VideoQuality {
private val videoQualityUrls = HashMap<String, String>()
companion object {
val LOW = getStringResource(R.string.low)
val MEDIUM = getStringResource(R.string.medium)
val HIGH = getStringResource(R.string.high)
}
val qualityArray
get() = arrayListOf<String>().apply {
if (hasQuality(LOW)) add(LOW)
if (hasQuality(MEDIUM)) add(MEDIUM)
if (hasQuality(HIGH)) add(HIGH)
}
var defaultVideoQuality: String? = HIGH
var lowQuality: String?
set(value) {
setVideoQualityUrl(LOW, value)
}
get() = videoQualityUrls[LOW] ?: ""
var mediumQuality: String?
set(value) {
setVideoQualityUrl(MEDIUM, value)
}
get() = videoQualityUrls[MEDIUM] ?: ""
var highQuality: String?
set(value) {
setVideoQualityUrl(HIGH, value)
}
get() = videoQualityUrls[HIGH] ?: ""
private fun setVideoQualityUrl(quality: String?, url: String?) {
if (url != null && quality != null) {
videoQualityUrls[quality] = url
}
}
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if (videoQualityUrls[quality] == null) {
return false
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return true
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return videoQualityUrls[quality]
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private fun initializePlayer() {
if (exoPlayer == null) {
val loadControl = DefaultLoadControl.Builder()
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//Create a default TrackSelector
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val trackSelector = DefaultTrackSelector(videoTrackSelectionFactory)
exoPlayer = ExoPlayerFactory.newSimpleInstance(itemView.context, DefaultRenderersFactory(itemView.context), trackSelector, loadControl)
exoPlayer!!.addListener(PlayEventListener())
val videoQualityInfo:VideoQuality = videoListVideoDataHolderData!!.videoQualityUrls //Just an object that i created and stored in a dataHolder for this view.
val url = videoQualityInfo.getVideoQualityUrl(videoQualityInfo.defaultVideoQuality) ?: ""
preparePlayer(url)
}
}
private fun preparePlayer(url: String) {
if (url.isNotEmpty()) {
val mediaSource = buildMediaSource(StringUtils.makeHttpUrl(url))
exoPlayer?.prepare(mediaSource)
videoView.player = exoPlayer
} else {
Log.d(APPTAG, "NO DEFAULT URL")
}
}
private fun buildMediaSource(url: String): ProgressiveMediaSource {
val mUri: Uri = Uri.parse(url)
val dataSourceFactory = DefaultDataSourceFactory(
itemView.context,
Util.getUserAgent(itemView.context, getStringResource(R.string.app_name))
)
val videoSource = ProgressiveMediaSource.Factory(dataSourceFactory)
.createMediaSource(mUri)
return videoSource
}
And then in the Spinner/QualitySelector's OnItemSelectedListener
videoQualitySpinner.onItemSelectedListener = object : AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener {
override fun onNothingSelected(parent: AdapterView<*>?) {
}
override fun onItemSelected(parent: AdapterView<*>?, view: View?, position: Int, id: Long) {
val currentTime = exoPlayer?.currentPosition
val isReadyToPlay = exoPlayer?.playWhenReady
val urlToBuild = when (videoQualityUrls.qualityArray[position]) {
VideoQuality.LOW -> videoQualityUrls.lowQuality
VideoQuality.MEDIUM -> videoQualityUrls.mediumQuality
else -> videoQualityUrls.highQuality
}
Log.d(APPTAG, "VIDEO DETAILS :::: ${currentTime} ${isReadyToPlay} ${urlToBuild}")
if (!urlToBuild.isNullOrEmpty()) {
val mediaSource = buildMediaSource(StringUtils.makeHttpUrl(urlToBuild))
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exoPlayer?.seekTo(currentTime ?: 0)
}
}
}

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