androidx / androidx/media

releaseOutputBuffer() is valid only at Executing states; currently at Released state

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Since Sep 22, 2025.

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Description

Version

Media3 1.8.0

More version details

No response

Devices that reproduce the issue

Samsung SM-S918B Android 15

Devices that do not reproduce the issue

No response

Reproducible in the demo app?

Not tested

Reproduction steps

For the moment hard to know as unable to reproduce.

Expected result

The media plays or report the actual probable error that occurred

Actual result

Player error with

java.lang.IllegalStateException: releaseOutputBuffer() is valid only at Executing states; currently at Released state

	at android.media.MediaCodec.releaseOutputBuffer(Native Method)
	at android.media.MediaCodec.releaseOutputBufferInternal(MediaCodec.java:4173)
	at android.media.MediaCodec.releaseOutputBuffer(MediaCodec.java:4094)
	at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.releaseOutputBuffer(AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.java:226)
	at androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.MediaCodecAudioRenderer.processOutputBuffer(MediaCodecAudioRenderer.java:855)
	at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.drainOutputBuffer(MediaCodecRenderer.java:2189)
	at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.render(MediaCodecRenderer.java:891)
	at androidx.media3.exoplayer.RendererHolder.render(RendererHolder.java:391)
	at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.doSomeWork(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:1366)
	at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:696)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:103)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:257)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:342)

Media

N/A as tied to some transcoding done via Plex.

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