I build a demo code(exoplayer-intro) like app on Chromecast with Google TV. Attach a Fragment to play the video.
I do call the exoplayer.release() on the Fragment onPause() state, and recreate a player instence on onResume().
When pressing home to back launcher and resume the app via launch icon, it should resume the video correctly, keep going to play the video, but sometimes it throws the codec error, something like below.
2022-10-07 14:11:39.326 11227-11516/<my package> E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer: Video codec error
java.lang.IllegalStateException
at android.media.MediaCodec.native_dequeueOutputBuffer(Native Method)
at android.media.MediaCodec.dequeueOutputBuffer(MediaCodec.java:2790)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.SynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.dequeueOutputBufferIndex(SynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.java:108)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.drainOutputBuffer(MediaCodecRenderer.java:1821)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.render(MediaCodecRenderer.java:794)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.doSomeWork(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:997)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:498)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:103)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214)
at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
2022-10-07 14:11:39.334 11227-11516/<my package> E/ExoPlayerImplInternal: Playback error
androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlaybackException: MediaCodecVideoRenderer error, index=0, format=Format(1, null, null, video/avc, avc1.640029, -1, null, [1440, 1080, 23.976], [-1, -1]), format_supported=YES
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:574)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:103)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214)
at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: androidx.media3.exoplayer.video.MediaCodecVideoDecoderException: Decoder failed: OMX.amlogic.avc.decoder.awesome2
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.createDecoderException(MediaCodecVideoRenderer.java:1593)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.render(MediaCodecRenderer.java:815)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.doSomeWork(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:997)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:498)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:103)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214)
at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException
at android.media.MediaCodec.native_dequeueOutputBuffer(Native Method)
at android.media.MediaCodec.dequeueOutputBuffer(MediaCodec.java:2790)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.SynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.dequeueOutputBufferIndex(SynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.java:108)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.drainOutputBuffer(MediaCodecRenderer.java:1821)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.render(MediaCodecRenderer.java:794)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.doSomeWork(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:997)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:498)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:103)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214)
at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
2022-10-07 14:11:39.337 11227-11516/<my package> E/ExoPlayerImplInternal: Disable failed.
java.lang.IllegalStateException
at android.media.MediaCodec.native_flush(Native Method)
at android.media.MediaCodec.flush(MediaCodec.java:2195)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.SynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.flush(SynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.java:168)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.flushCodec(MediaCodecRenderer.java:879)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.flushOrReleaseCodec(MediaCodecRenderer.java:872)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.onDisabled(MediaCodecRenderer.java:712)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.onDisabled(MediaCodecVideoRenderer.java:564)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.BaseRenderer.disable(BaseRenderer.java:190)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.disableRenderer(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:1659)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.resetInternal(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:1400)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.stopInternal(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:1363)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:590)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:103)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214)
at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
What I guess is that release() not really working correct when home press cause onPause() called.
This only happen on Chromecast with Google TV, I also tried Nvida Shild, it performance correctly.
Did someone know why this happen on CCwGTV? How to work around with it?
