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Surface MediaCodecInfo isHardwareAccelerated / isSoftwareOnly / isVendor

See original GitHub issue

Android Q has added new isHardwareAccelerated, isSoftwareOnly and isVendor methods to MediaCodecInfo. We should consider:

Surfacing this information in ExoPlayer’s MediaCodecInfo. It would probably make sense for us to approximate this information for earlier API levels as well (e.g. based on decoder name).
Once this information is surfaced, we should potentially look at whether it should be factored into track selection decisions. For example, preferring H264 over HEVC in cases where the H264 decoder is hardware and the HEVC decoder is software.

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Created 4 years ago
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kim-vdecommented, Sep 13, 2019

@noamtamim Those prefixes have been introduced in Android P.

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noamtamimcommented, Sep 11, 2019

@kim-vde @ojw28 do you know if these new “c2” prefixes have existed before Android Q?

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