Event at playback time?

[damienoliver]

Hi,
I would like to dispatch event's at defined times during playback. Does exoplayer have a time observer object suitable for this use? ...I would like to avoid polling the currentPosition value if possible.

Thanks!

[ojw28]

No, there's no built in support for that. Although you could easily implement your own TrackRenderer and inject it into the player that could dispatch events at specified times during playback.

[damienoliver]

Thanks for the tip. doSomeWork(long positionUs, long elapsedRealtimeUs) seems to fire quick enough for my needs. Cheers.

[rakesh1988]

is there an equivalent in exoplayer2?

[andrewlewis]

The equivalent would be implementing your own Renderer (subclassing BaseRenderer) and using positionUs passed to render.

[ojw28]

Providing a more convenient API for this is also tracked by #2189.

[tonihei]

We're currently working on this feature to let the player run a callback when it reaches a certain playback position. We would like to have your opinion on some edge cases in #2189 - please let us know what would fit your requirements best.