- There's definitely potential for more code sharing in these
classes, but deferring for now.
- Also made no-scheme default to file://, and allowed smoothstreaming
URLs to be specified with or without the /Manifest suffix.
Play movies has an Allocator that attempts to allocate a single
huge byte[] up front to minimize the risk of GC pauses. This abstraction
will be required to keep that when updating them to the new Exo.
Using a file:// URL for loading an HLS stream (for testing) would fail due to
casting the connection to an HttpURLConnection in DefaultHttpDataSource.
This change makes UriDataSource an interface for objects that are DataSources
with URIs. That allows for reading manifests for HLS using just a UriDataSource
rather than an HttpDataSource (URLs in the playlist are relative to the data
source's URL so the getUri method is needed).
Some servers, probably edge cache machines that exclusively serve
chunked media, don't support partial requests. Which is kind of
vaguely reasonable for that particular case. This change modifies
DefaultHttpDataSource to correctly handle this case, by manually
skipping data up to the requested position (and making sure not to
read more data than the requested length).
- Have extractors read from an ExtractorInput. Benefits of this are
(a) The ability to do a "full" read or skip of a specified number
of bytes, (b) The ability to do multiple reads in your extractor's
read method. The ExtractorInput will throw an InterruptedException
if the read has been canceled.
- Provides the extractor with the ability to query the absolute
position of the data being read in the stream. This is needed for
things like parsing a segment index in fragmented mp4, where the
position of the end of the box in the stream is required because
the index offsets are all specified relative to that position.
