• Core Library:
  • Explicitly mark several methods on SimpleExoPlayer as @Deprecated. These methods are all overrides and are already deprecated on Player and the respective ExoPlayer component classes (since 2.14.0).
• Video:
  • Fix IncorrectContextUseViolation strict mode warning on Android 11 (#8246).
• Audio:
  • Fix track selection for E-AC-3 streams.
  • Use AudioTrack.isDirectPlaybackSupported to check for encoded audio passthrough capability from API 29 onwards, instead of using the HDMI audio plug intent (#6500).
• Extractors:
  • Fix issue where a trun atom could be associated with the wrong track in an FMP4 stream (#9056). The fix removes a previous workaround to handle content in which the track_ID is set incorrectly (#4083). Such content is malformed and should be re-encoded.
  • Improve support for truncated Ogg streams (#7608).
  • Add support for MP4 H263 atom type (#9158).
  • Fix issue around TS synchronization when reading a file's duration (#9100).
• HLS:
  • Fix issue where playback of a live event could become stuck rather than transitioning to STATE_ENDED when the event ends (#9067).
  • Fix issue where a new initialization segment, as specified by an EXT-X-MAP tag in a media playlist, would not be loaded when encountered during playback (#9004).
  • Forward the FRAME-RATE value from the master playlist to renditions (#8960).
  • Fix issue where HLS events would start at positions greater than specified by an EXT-X-START tag when placed in a playlist (#9037).
• Ad playback:
  • Use the content URI when auto-generating an ad ID (in addition to the media ID and ad tag URI) (#9106.
• DRM:
  • Allow repeated provisioning in DefaultDrmSession(Manager).
  • Fix a crash due to DefaultDrmSessionManager.release() incorrectly releasing too many keep-alive DefaultDrmSession references, resulting in DefaultDrmSession.release() throwing an IllegalStateException (#9193).
• Metadata:
  • Fix handling of emsg messages with an unset duration (#9123).
• UI:
  • Add PendingIntent.FLAG_IMMUTABLE flag when creating a broadcast intent in PlayerNotificationManager. This is required to avoid an error on Android 12.
  • Fix focusability of StyledPlayerView and StyledPlayerControlView popup menus on API levels prior to 26 (#9061).
  • Fix progress bar flickering immediately after the user seeks (#9049).
  • Fix StyledPlayerView and StyledPlayerControlView popup menu items not expanding to occupy the full width of the popup (#9086).
  • Don't propagate AttributeSet from SubtitleView constructor into CanvasSubtitleOutput. Just passing the Context is enough, and ensures programmatic changes to the SubtitleView will propagate down.
• RTSP:
  • Fix session description (SDP) parsing to use a HashMap-like behaviour for duplicated attributes (#9014).
  • Allow using absolute URI in the control attribute in a media description (#9183).
  • Allow the timeout to be customised via RtspMediaSource.Factory.setTimeoutMs.