Add support for TwinVQ .vqf files

[dsghub]

[REQUIRED] Use case description

Playback of .vqf files encoded in TwinVQ/VQF

.vqf files ae supported by the open-source libavcodec, so no licensing fees would have to be paid

Alternatives considered

VLC does it, but third party apps often use Exoplayer, and then playback fails

[rohitjoins]

Thank you for the feature request.

While our FFmpeg extension does exist to provide software decoding for formats not natively supported by Android, Media3 would still require a dedicated Extractor to parse the media container (.vqf).

Given that TwinVQ is a legacy format with very little usage today, writing and maintaining a brand new Extractor would introduce an unnecessary maintenance burden. Therefore, we won't be adding support to the core Media3 extractors.

However, Media3 is highly extensible. If your app specifically requires this, you can write a custom .vqf Extractor and inject into the player, paired with a customized build of the FFmpeg extension.

I'm going to close this issue, but we really appreciate you taking time to report it!