Failure on Android TV devices running Android 11 when switching from a secure HEVC decoder to a secure AVC decoder

Version

Media3 1.3.1

More version details

No response

Devices that reproduce the issue

Android TV android 11

Devices that do not reproduce the issue

No response

Reproducible in the demo app?

Yes

Reproduction steps

Zapping live from a 4K HEVC channel to an HD AVC channel or vice versa

Expected result

Playback OK

Actual result

Black screen for a few seconds

Media

We have encountered initialization issues during live zapping. I believe the problem is related to concurrent access to the playback surface between the AVC and HEVC decoders.

I noticed that in version 2.14.1, you implemented a workaround that involves waiting 50 ms when decoder initialization fails and then retrying to initialize the codec. According to the forums, this resolves many problems. However, I don't see this workaround in Media3. Was this an oversight?

For more details, please find an excerpt of the traces:

02-25 10:37:51.828 E/SurfaceUtils( 8013): Failed to connect to surface 0xbd0960b8, err -22
02-25 10:37:51.828 E/MediaCodec( 8013): nativeWindowConnect returned an error: Invalid argument (-22)
02-25 10:37:51.828 E/MediaCodec( 8013): configure failed with err 0xffffffea, resetting...

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02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): Failed to initialize decoder: OMX.amlogic.avc.decoder.awesome2.secure
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at android.media.MediaCodec.native_configure(Native Method)
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at android.media.MediaCodec.configure(MediaCodec.java:2127)
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at android.media.MediaCodec.configure(MediaCodec.java:2043)
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.initialize(AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.java:174)
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.access$100(AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.java:54)
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter$Factory.createAdapter(AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.java:119)
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.DefaultMediaCodecAdapterFactory.createAdapter(DefaultMediaCodecAdapterFactory.java:137)
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.initCodec(MediaCodecRenderer.java:1195)
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.maybeInitCodecWithFallback(MediaCodecRenderer.java:1103)
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.maybeInitCodecOrBypass(MediaCodecRenderer.java:551)
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.reinitializeCodec(MediaCodecRenderer.java:2272)
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.drainAndReinitializeCodec(MediaCodecRenderer.java:1909)
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.onInputFormatChanged(MediaCodecRenderer.java:1590)
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.onInputFormatChanged(MediaCodecVideoRenderer.java:1150)
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.readSourceOmittingSampleData(MediaCodecRenderer.java:994)
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.render(MediaCodecRenderer.java:814)
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.render(MediaCodecVideoRenderer.java:940)
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.doSomeWork(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:1112)
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:544)
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:223)
02-25 10:37:51.923 W/MediaCodecRenderer( 8013): at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): Video codec error
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer$DecoderInitializationException: Decoder init failed: OMX.amlogic.avc.decoder.awesome2.secure, Format(v2_121, null, null, video/avc, avc1.64002A, 6400000, null, [1920, 1080, 50.0, ColorInfo(BT709, Limited range, SDR SMPTE 170M, false, 8bit Luma, 8bit Chroma)], [-1, -1])
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.maybeInitCodecWithFallback(MediaCodecRenderer.java:1114)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.maybeInitCodecOrBypass(MediaCodecRenderer.java:551)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.reinitializeCodec(MediaCodecRenderer.java:2272)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.drainAndReinitializeCodec(MediaCodecRenderer.java:1909)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.onInputFormatChanged(MediaCodecRenderer.java:1590)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.onInputFormatChanged(MediaCodecVideoRenderer.java:1150)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.readSourceOmittingSampleData(MediaCodecRenderer.java:994)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.render(MediaCodecRenderer.java:814)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.render(MediaCodecVideoRenderer.java:940)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.doSomeWork(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:1112)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:544)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:223)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at android.media.MediaCodec.native_configure(Native Method)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at android.media.MediaCodec.configure(MediaCodec.java:2127)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at android.media.MediaCodec.configure(MediaCodec.java:2043)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.initialize(AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.java:174)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.access$100(AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.java:54)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter$Factory.createAdapter(AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.java:119)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.DefaultMediaCodecAdapterFactory.createAdapter(DefaultMediaCodecAdapterFactory.java:137)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.initCodec(MediaCodecRenderer.java:1195)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.maybeInitCodecWithFallback(MediaCodecRenderer.java:1103)
02-25 10:37:51.924 E/MediaCodecVideoRenderer( 8013): ... 13 more
02-25 10:37:51.925 I/DMCodecAdapterFactory( 8013): Creating an asynchronous MediaCodec adapter for track type video

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