No suitable media source factory found for content type: 2 (type 2 is M3U8)

Question

I'm getting this error when using exoplayer even though i'm specifying the mimo type so don't understand why this crash is happening. The version i'm using is 2.18.7:

   videoUrl?.let {
                if (it.endsWith(".m3u8")) {
                    val mediaItem = MediaItem.Builder()
                        .setUri(it)
                        .setMimeType(MimeTypes.APPLICATION_M3U8)
                        .build()
                    exoPlayer?.setMediaItem(mediaItem)
                } else {
                    exoPlayer?.setMediaItem(MediaItem.fromUri(it))
                }
            }

I was expecting for the video to play normally

Answer 1

To play HLS streams (or DASH, Smooth Streaming), you need to add the HLS dependency to your build.gradle file.

For Media3 ExoPlayer, that is:

androidx.media3:media3-exoplayer-hls

So, add:

implementation "androidx.media3:media3-exoplayer-hls:1.1.1"

(Replace the version number with the most recent one.)

And for ExoPlayer 2.x, it is:

com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-hls