The THEOplayer Android Media3 pipeline is an integration for the THEOplayer Android SDK that serves as a new and rebuilt base layer for playback of video and audio files. It is based on Jetpack Media3 components, and it provides more stable playback covering a broader range of use cases, all while being lighter in size and more performant.
For more information, refer to the Getting started with Media3 on Android section in our Android SDK documentation.
The Media3 pipeline is available as of react-native-theoplayer v8.9.0.
[!IMPORTANT] As of THEOplayer 9.0, Media3 is the default playback pipeline on Android. It is still possible to opt-out and use the legacy pipeline with the
playbackPipelineparameter in theSourceDescription.
The rest of this section applies to THEOplayer 8.x only.
Except for THEOads sources, where Media3 is enabled by default, the “legacy” pipeline remains the default on THEOplayer v8.x.
To enable the new Media3 extension, set the THEOplayer_extensionMedia3 in the app’s gradle configuration,
such as the gradle.properties file:
THEOplayer_extensionMedia3=true
Additionally, pass the useMedia3 flag in the player configuration as shown below:
const playerConfig: PlayerConfiguration = {
// ...
useMedia3: true
};
The Media3 pipeline provides support for multimedia tunneling, as described in the Android documentation. This is disabled by default.
To enable multimedia tunneling, pass the tunnelingEnabled flag in the
player configuration as shown below:
const playerConfig: PlayerConfiguration = {
// ...
tunnelingEnabled: true
};