Is it possible to control media player quality? - android

I download video with:
mPlayer.setDataSource("https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/ellovidsout/1232/9/1423065486.mp4.m3u8")
Header contains following data:
#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=532000,RESOLUTION=400x224,CODECS="avc1.42001e,mp4a.40.2"
400k_1423065486.mp4.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=1273000,RESOLUTION=640x360,CODECS="avc1.4d001f,mp4a.40.2"
1000k_1423065486.mp4.m3u8
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=2476000,RESOLUTION=1024x576,CODECS="avc1.4d001f,mp4a.40.2"
2000k_1423065486.mp4.m3u8
Can I manually force media player to play only video with resolution 400x224 for example? (Except manually alerating url adding quality code to id)


You can use the method selectTrack and getTrackInfo Therefore, it doesn't work properly for all devices and Android OS version.
It might be helpfull to use ExoPlayer . Here you can check the demo app.

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