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Widevine VP9 Playback Issues on Some Devices#2408
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@surmay
surmay
opened on May 8, 2025

Version

Media3 1.6.1

More version details

Media3 1.4.0 was not affected.

Issue appears to start in commit bffa253

Devices that reproduce the issue

Redmi Note 8
Samsung SM-A146U1
Samsung SM-T515

Devices that do not reproduce the issue

Pixel

Reproducible in the demo app?

Yes

Reproduction steps

  1. Play "HD (cenc, full-sample)" under the "Widevine DASH (WebM, VP9)" section in the demo app

Expected result

The media plays successfully

Actual result

Playback crashes with the following stacktrace:

05-08 17:31:28.245 25686 26455 E MediaCodecVideoRenderer: Video codec error
05-08 17:31:28.245 25686 26455 E MediaCodecVideoRenderer: java.lang.IllegalStateException
05-08 17:31:28.245 25686 26455 E MediaCodecVideoRenderer: at android.media.MediaCodec.native_dequeueOutputBuffer(Native Method)
05-08 17:31:28.245 25686 26455 E MediaCodecVideoRenderer: at android.media.MediaCodec.dequeueOutputBuffer(MediaCodec.java:3452)
05-08 17:31:28.245 25686 26455 E MediaCodecVideoRenderer: at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.SynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.dequeueOutputBufferIndex(SynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.java:112)
05-08 17:31:28.245 25686 26455 E MediaCodecVideoRenderer: at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.drainOutputBuffer(MediaCodecRenderer.java:2032)
05-08 17:31:28.245 25686 26455 E MediaCodecVideoRenderer: at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.render(MediaCodecRenderer.java:878)
05-08 17:31:28.245 25686 26455 E MediaCodecVideoRenderer: at androidx.media3.exoplayer.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.render(MediaCodecVideoRenderer.java:1261)
05-08 17:31:28.245 25686 26455 E MediaCodecVideoRenderer: at androidx.media3.exoplayer.RendererHolder.render(RendererHolder.java:381)
05-08 17:31:28.245 25686 26455 E MediaCodecVideoRenderer: at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.doSomeWork(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:1329)
05-08 17:31:28.245 25686 26455 E MediaCodecVideoRenderer: at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:646)
05-08 17:31:28.245 25686 26455 E MediaCodecVideoRenderer: at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
05-08 17:31:28.245 25686 26455 E MediaCodecVideoRenderer: at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:236)
05-08 17:31:28.245 25686 26455 E MediaCodecVideoRenderer: at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
05-08 17:31:28.248 25686 26455 E ExoPlayerImplInternal: Playback error
05-08 17:31:28.248 25686 26455 E ExoPlayerImplInternal: androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlaybackException: MediaCodecVideoRenderer error, index=0, format=Format(4, null, video/webm, video/x-vnd.on2.vp9, vp9, 4889229, en, [1920, 856, 23.809525, null], [-1, -1]), format_supported=YES
05-08 17:31:28.248 25686 26455 E ExoPlayerImplInternal: at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:745)
05-08 17:31:28.248 25686 26455 E ExoPlayerImplInternal: at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
05-08 17:31:28.248 25686 26455 E ExoPlayerImplInternal: at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:236)
05-08 17:31:28.248 25686 26455 E ExoPlayerImplInternal: at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
05-08 17:31:28.248 25686 26455 E ExoPlayerImplInternal: Caused by: androidx.media3.exoplayer.video.MediaCodecVideoDecoderException: Decoder failed: OMX.MTK.VIDEO.DECODER.VP9.secure
05-08 17:31:28.248 25686 26455 E ExoPlayerImplInternal: at androidx.media3.exoplayer.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.createDecoderException(MediaCodecVideoRenderer.java:2330)
05-08 17:31:28.248 25686 26455 E ExoPlayerImplInternal: at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.render(MediaCodecRenderer.java:902)
05-08 17:31:28.248 25686 26455 E ExoPlayerImplInternal: at androidx.media3.exoplayer.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.render(MediaCodecVideoRenderer.java:1261)
05-08 17:31:28.248 25686 26455 E ExoPlayerImplInternal: at androidx.media3.exoplayer.RendererHolder.render(RendererHolder.java:381)
05-08 17:31:28.248 25686 26455 E ExoPlayerImplInternal: at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.doSomeWork(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:1329)
05-08 17:31:28.248 25686 26455 E ExoPlayerImplInternal: at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:646)
05-08 17:31:28.248 25686 26455 E ExoPlayerImplInternal: ... 3 more
05-08 17:31:28.248 25686 26455 E ExoPlayerImplInternal: Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException
05-08 17:31:28.248 25686 26455 E ExoPlayerImplInternal: at android.media.MediaCodec.native_dequeueOutputBuffer(Native Method)
05-08 17:31:28.248 25686 26455 E ExoPlayerImplInternal: at android.media.MediaCodec.dequeueOutputBuffer(MediaCodec.java:3452)
05-08 17:31:28.248 25686 26455 E ExoPlayerImplInternal: at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.SynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.dequeueOutputBufferIndex(SynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.java:112)
05-08 17:31:28.248 25686 26455 E ExoPlayerImplInternal: at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.drainOutputBuffer(MediaCodecRenderer.java:2032)
05-08 17:31:28.248 25686 26455 E ExoPlayerImplInternal: at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.render(MediaCodecRenderer.java:878)
05-08 17:31:28.248 25686 26455 E ExoPlayerImplInternal: ... 7 more

Media

Widevine DASH (WebM, VP9) > HD (cenc, full-sample)

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  1. surmay
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    on May 8, 2025

  2. surmay commented on May 8, 2025

    @surmay
    surmay
    on May 8, 2025
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    Note that I called out bffa253 where I bisected the issue in the demo app.

    In our app, the problematic commit on these devices is 6b56f12

  3. icbaker
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    rohitjoins
    on May 9, 2025

  4. icbaker commented on May 12, 2025

    @icbaker
    icbaker
    on May 12, 2025
    Collaborator

    Are you able to depend on media3 locally?

    If so, please can you see if modifying this logic to also include VP9 resolves the issue?

    media/libraries/exoplayer/src/main/java/androidx/media3/exoplayer/mediacodec/MediaCodecRenderer.java

    Lines 1572 to 1578 in 6285e98

    // Remove the initialization data from the format if present when dealing with AV1, as it is not
    // required for playing AV1 video.
    // Reference: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/MediaCodec#CSD
    if (Objects.equals(newFormat.sampleMimeType, MimeTypes.VIDEO_AV1)
    && !newFormat.initializationData.isEmpty()) {
    newFormat = newFormat.buildUpon().setInitializationData(null).build();
    }

    So it becomes:

    if ((Objects.equals(newFormat.sampleMimeType, MimeTypes.VIDEO_AV1)
        || Objects.equals(newFormat.sampleMimeType, MimeTypes.VIDEO_VP9))
    && !newFormat.initializationData.isEmpty()) {
  newFormat = newFormat.buildUpon().setInitializationData(null).build();
}
  5. icbaker
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  6. surmay commented on May 12, 2025

    @surmay
    surmay
    on May 12, 2025
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    Applying your patch works for the devices we have in our lab (previously, ~10 were failing)

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  8. icbaker
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    on May 13, 2025
  9. icbaker
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  10. copybara-service
    added a commit that references this issue on May 13, 2025

    Remove VP9 codec specific data in `MediaCodecVideoRenderer`

    820fb45

  11. icbaker commented on May 13, 2025

    @icbaker
    icbaker
    on May 13, 2025
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    Thanks for the report, and for checking the fix - I've submitted this change in the commit linked above.

  12. icbaker
    closed this as completedon May 13, 2025
  13. icbaker
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