KitePlayer

Builds a player on this platform's default stack: FFmpeg for the media, and the platform's own audio output and clock.

val player = KitePlayer()
player.open(MediaItem("https://example.com/movie.mkv"))
player.play()

A backend that PlayerConfig.backends names is used as given, and only a missing one comes from the defaults. KitePlayer.create is the door that uses only what the config names, for a stack of your own.

With the default media backend, this also gives the platform's player views their default renderer, so view.player = player is all a KitePlayerView needs.

Android, iOS, macOS and the desktop JVM always have the default stack in a correctly packaged app. The web has it once its codec module is loaded. Where that can be false, check KitePlayer.isAvailable first, for example to fall back to another engine.

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KitePlayer with its config built in a block, so a nested setting does not need its type named:

val player = KitePlayer { subtitles { preferredLanguages = listOf("ja") } }

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