race-control-tv VS Exoplayer

Hi, there is a third party Android/Fire TV client called F1 TV Viewer. It would be great if you could support this app. https://github.com/leonardoxh/race-control-tv

For me the official app works quite well when sideloaded but if you can't get it working I recommend this third party app https://github.com/leonardoxh/race-control-tv

You have to sideload it, but this third party client exists: https://github.com/leonardoxh/race-control-tv

I have both the official F1TV App and https://github.com/leonardoxh/race-control-tv on a FireTV Stick "Lite" and a "Google Chromecast with Google TV". I probably sideloaded both of them (via adb). Haven't used them since last season, but they were working back then.

There's one for Android TV, but none to run on your phone or tablet that I know of

This started happening on Android when they enabled DRM on the streams. Assuming you use a device with Android 12 or later, you can just use Race Control TV to fix the issue. With Android 11 or earlier, Race Control TV also stutters due to this issue, which can be fixed by a custom build of the the app and force-enabling the fix mentioned in the issue.

Other apps, such as https://github.com/NoahFetz/F1AppleTV, or https://github.com/leonardoxh/race-control-tv, have both been able to add DRM support with relatively minimal effort, since this was offered out-of-the-box on those platforms.

https://github.com/leonardoxh/race-control-tv (for Android TV, with DRM support)

Though, there are already other Android (TV) 3rd-party apps out there (https://github.com/leonardoxh/race-control-tv), and people could probably build on top of them. I'm happy to assist/share information about anything!

I tried using the Fire TV but it has huge problems with some 4K HDR video formats that goes black screen. It is an issue reported by multiple users for Plex but it's the same for all applications on FireTV. This is the issue on github for Exoplayer: https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues/11096

Media3 is the new home for APIs that enable you to create rich audio and video experiences. If you’ve used libraries like ExoPlayer, MediaCompat, or Media2, you’ll find Media3 to be familiar. However, instead of using these separate libraries, Media3 provides a unified API for playback use-cases and also expands to cover new use-cases like video editing and transcoding. The APIs are simple to use yet powerful, customizable to meet your needs, and reliable and optimized so you can build for the diverse Android device ecosystem. (https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/03/media3-is-ready-to-play.html)

Haven't done video work in years, but checkout the DefaultTrackSelector and start following around in the source code. Android Studio should allow you to do this all in the IDE. It's really the only way to learn/understand this stuff.

Also in regards to having to tell PC rtspt:// and Quest rtsp:// and waiting for ExoPlayer to fail over to TCP (8 seconds delay) https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues/11069

I wonder if it's an ExoPlayer bug?

See the full changelog of ExoPlayer 2.18.2. Some notable changes are:

This started happening on Android when they enabled DRM on the streams. Assuming you use a device with Android 12 or later, you can just use Race Control TV to fix the issue. With Android 11 or earlier, Race Control TV also stutters due to this issue, which can be fixed by a custom build of the the app and force-enabling the fix mentioned in the issue.

If one day https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues/3438 is done then yes. Until then no I can't.