[Bug] decoder initialization errors

[abuturabofficial]

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Describe the bug

While watching videos I get decoder initialization errors from time to time, doesn't matter the video I'm watching.

Frequency

Maybe once or twice during watching videos from from enqueue list.... First in the list will play fine and the next in the middle or towards end will error out. I don't see any clear pattern though

Steps to reproduce the bug

Just normally watch the videos.

I have experimented by enabling webm etc, but the error still occurs with or without those advanced settings.

Device (e.g. Pixel 9 Pro)

Moto G54 5G

Error report

Crash Log

{"user_action":"play stream","request":"Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_DECODING_FAILED] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzbPJ9_CoZ8","content_language":"en-US","content_country":"PK","app_language":"en_US","service":"YouTube (Logged in)","package":"InfinityLoop1309.NewPipeEnhanced","version":"4.1.3","os":"Linux motorola/cancunf_g_sysen/cancunf:14/U1TD34.94-12-9-10/cc897d-c6704:user/release-keys 14 - 34","time":"2025-01-22 14:40","exceptions":["com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: MediaCodecVideoRenderer error, index=0, format=Format(137, null, null, video/avc, avc1.640028, 4367443, null, [1920, 1080, 25.0], [-1, -1]), format_supported=YES\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:575)\n\tat android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:107)\n\tat android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:242)\n\tat android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:362)\n\tat android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:85)\nCaused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.video.MediaCodecVideoDecoderException: Decoder failed: c2.mtk.avc.decoder\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.createDecoderException(MediaCodecVideoRenderer.java:1512)\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.render(MediaCodecRenderer.java:813)\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.doSomeWork(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:998)\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:499)\n\t... 4 more\nCaused by: android.media.MediaCodec$CodecException: Error 0x80000000\n"],"user_comment":""}

Additional context

I'm logged in, without it getting all kinds of error, but now only decoder initialization errors every couple of videos later or during watching a long video (more than 15 minutes). Clicking retry, will successfully play the video from the point where the playback was crashed.

App downloaded directly from GitHub. V4.1.3

[InfinityLoop1308]

Seems related to a long existed Exoplayer bug (google/ExoPlayer#9526, google/ExoPlayer#10652) which is hardware related.

Can you share an error report with webm enabled?

[abuturabofficial]

This error doesn't occur with WebM.

[InfinityLoop1308]

Then the solution is to keep WebM always enabled.