Android Question How to reset/clear cache of Exoplayer to immediately restart playing of video stream?

[JohnC]

My app plays streaming video from a remote server I own.

My app has the ability to remotely configure (in real-time) the video "source" that the remote server should be streaming. Meaning, I can remotely tell the server which video source to play and can switch among multiple video sources to stream.

The problem is that when my app tells the remote server to stream a different source video, it takes 10-15 seconds before I see the new video source playing inside of exoplayer due to exoplayer caching the video stream.

What is the best practice/method to restart Exoplayer so it will restart-playing the stream so that there is minimal delay to start seeing the new video (after the server switched it's input to the new video as remotely directed by my app)?

I found this, but again, not being a java expert I don't know how to implement this in B4A:

Clear cache of exoplayer

I have referred this link for creating CachedDataSource for Exo-Player and successfully created it, but I am not sure, how to delete the cache of the loaded video? There is a code example here , b...

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[aeric]

How about release and reinitialize the player?

player1.Release
player1.Initialize("player")

 

[JohnC]

I tried that, but it does not eliminate the 10-15 delay for some reason.

 

[Erel]

Why do you think that it is related to the previous video? I would have guessed that the delay is related to the buffering of the new video.