Disable video and text tracks in background player and prefer DASH manifests over HLS ones for livestreams#12601

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AudricV:live-prefer-dash-and-fetch-bg-audio-only

Jan 28, 2026

Commits on Jan 28, 2026

Add a YouTube DASH manifest parser to make live DASH manifests usable

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Use DASH first instead of HLS and YouTube's DASH parser for lives

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Rename useVideoSource to useVideoAndSubtitles in Player

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Allow changing video and text tracks state without stream info

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Disable fetching video and text tracks in background player

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Address review comments
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Avoid rebuilding BackgroundPlayerUi if already in place
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