VOD cache using Exoplayer 2.2

Question

After doing some workarround on caching the Video/Audio content using exoplayer,i feel like the answer given here by Jacek Using cache in ExoPlayer is the proper way to implement the caching for unbounded range requests instead of using the inbuilt Exocache supported by https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues/420 & https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues/57. But he hasn't said anything on configuring the OkHttp & caching the request.

Can any one provide me some links on how to configure the okhttp & caching the request.

I got same problem you are facing.. not getting any official document or example to configured okhttp caching. — comeback4you, Mar 16 '17 at 08:50
Can you put some light how you are trying to cache video content @comeback4you — Pranesh Sahu, Mar 16 '17 at 08:57
I tried https://github.com/saeednt/ExoCacheDataSource but ExtractorSampleSource class not found in library. — comeback4you, Mar 16 '17 at 08:59
@comeback4you the ExtractorSampleSource file wont be available for exoplayer higher version...it is available in 1.5 version of exoplayer...please check — Pranesh Sahu, Mar 16 '17 at 09:08
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/138198/discussion-between-pranesh-sahu-and-comeback4you). — Pranesh Sahu, Mar 16 '17 at 09:10

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 24 '17 at 10:24

By making buildDataSourceFactory configuration change as below we can cache the video content

  private DataSource.Factory buildDataSourceFactory(final boolean useBandwidthMeter) {
//    return new DefaultDataSourceFactory(this, useBandwidthMeter ? BANDWIDTH_METER : null,
//        buildHttpDataSourceFactory(useBandwidthMeter));
    return new DataSource.Factory() {
      @Override
      public DataSource createDataSource() {
        LeastRecentlyUsedCacheEvictor evictor = new LeastRecentlyUsedCacheEvictor(100 * 1024 * 1024);
        SimpleCache simpleCache = new SimpleCache(new File(getCacheDir(), "media_cache"), evictor);
        return new CacheDataSource(simpleCache, buildMyDataSourceFactory(useBandwidthMeter).createDataSource(),
                CacheDataSource.FLAG_BLOCK_ON_CACHE | CacheDataSource.FLAG_CACHE_UNBOUNDED_REQUESTS,
                10 * 1024 * 1024);
      }
    };
  }

  private DefaultDataSource.Factory buildMyDataSourceFactory(boolean useBandwidthMeter) {
    return new DefaultDataSourceFactory(PlayerActivity.this, userAgent, useBandwidthMeter ? BANDWIDTH_METER : null);
  }

I am using above code and able to cache the video but how to play video from cache ? — rupesh, Oct 30 '18 at 19:24

VOD cache using Exoplayer 2.2

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