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Using chunkless preparation greatly improves start up time if the master playlist declares CODECS for the renditions. Hence, we turn this on by default as it benefits most well-defined HLS master playlists. The only known reason why developers may want to turn this feature off is when the renditions contain muxed closed-caption tracks that are not declared in the master playlist. So this change also updates the documentation and RELEASENOTES to point out this caveat. PiperOrigin-RevId: 413950036
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# Release notes
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### 1.0.0-alpha01
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AndroidX Media is the new home for media support libraries, including ExoPlayer.
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The first alpha contains early, functional implementations of libraries for
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implementing media use cases, including:
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* ExoPlayer, an application-level media player for Android that is easy to
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customize and extend.
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* Media session functionality, for exposing and controlling playbacks. This
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new session module uses the same `Player` interface as ExoPlayer.
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* UI components for building media playback user interfaces.
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* Modules wrapping functionality in other libraries for use with ExoPlayer,
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for example, ad insertion via the IMA SDK.
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ExoPlayer was previously hosted in a separate
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[ExoPlayer GitHub project](https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer). In AndroidX
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Media its package name is `androidx.media3.exoplayer`. We plan to continue to
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maintain and release the ExoPlayer GitHub project for a while to give apps time
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to migrate. AndroidX Media has replacements for all the ExoPlayer modules,
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except for the legacy media2 and mediasession extensions, which are together
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replaced by the new `media3-session` module. This provides direct integration
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between players and media sessions without needing to use an adapter/connector
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class.
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