We have an Android player that plays an m3u8 stream. This m3u8 stream contains numerous transport segments of video that are played sequentially. Usually the player buffers a few transport segments.
If the user clicks a button, I would like to store the existing buffer of transport segments in an array (or other data structure) and immediately merge them to be an mp4. So, if the buffer has:
chunk123.ts chunk124.ts chunk125.ts
I would like to merge them to be a chunks.mp4
The second part of the task - the merging is something I am acquainted with. However, I am not sure how I can retrieve the transport segments in the video player buffer on Android (the video player handles the download). I supposed one would need an open source video player for this? What part of the code would I need to modify to make it accessible from within my app?
Thank you!