How are MP4/WebM streams handled? [Station] about transistor HOT 5 OPEN

A question in return: Is it possible to add a video stream to Transistor? The app does check streaming URLs if they have a supported format before it lets you add them. If this is possible, can you send me an example link?

As for your question: Transistor basically just hands over a streaming URL to the very popular media playback library ExoPlayer and starts observing the state of the playback to display a user interface. I can have a look into the way ExoPlayer handles a video stream, if I have an example streaming URL to test this with.

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To generate an example url install yt-dlp and use this command
yt-dlp --get-url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qap5aO4i9A
It will generate a HLS/3mu8 url for the Lofi Girl stream

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It has AAC audio, which Transistor does support

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I tried yt-dlpon a Mac. This version does not seem to understand --get-url. I will try that on Linux later
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