PCM offload support
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Since May 22, 2025.
enhancement
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Description
[REQUIRED] Use case description
ExoPlayer already supports compressed offload. But many devices like Google Pixels only support a few formats like MP3 or AAC, but not FLAC or even rarer formats like ALAC. But it would be nice to play less common audio formats as offload playback to save battery.
Proposed solution
Android 16's PCM offload: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/05/building-delightful-android-camera-media-experiences.html
The idea is to decode very large chucks of compressed audio as usual, and then feed all of them as PCM to DSP for playback.
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