Reduce the app size

[Sadwhy]

Why would a simple audiobook player app need 74~mb of space? That's highly overkill.

[PaulWoitaschek]

Because of ffmpeg. If you download it from Google play the download is only about 12mb

[shirish87]

I could be wrong but ffmpeg/ffprobe seems to be in use only to extract metadata. If that's the case, I have a little media3-extractor-m4b library here that may help. I'm trying to find time to work on my own audiobook app, but hopefully this helps you!

[PaulWoitaschek]

Unfortunately that doesn't handle all the different chapter formats and weirdness especially out there in media formats

[shirish87]

I've added chapter parsing for as many m4b files I could get my hands on 😓. But yes, there are probably many more cases and formats to handle.

[PaulWoitaschek]

M4b is pretty straight forward but there are also id3 chapters, flac chapters, mkv chapters etc etc.

[PaulWoitaschek]

Ie here are some formats:
https://github.com/PaulWoitaschek/chapterreader

But the whole topic was only solved once switching to ffmpeg

[shirish87]

Thanks! those sample files are helpful!