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Play freeze when play UHD video at android TV

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Description

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Media3 main branch

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I played a uhd video with exoplayer. After playing for a few seconds, the video freezes.
If i press play forward, it plays.
I compared with androidplayer and it works perfectly (same for ijkplayer, vlc so on)
Below is the error log:

12-22 14:39:58.811 E/LoadTask(14802): OutOfMemory error loading stream
12-22 14:39:58.811 E/LoadTask(14802):   java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 65552 byte allocation with 13704 free bytes and 13KB until OOM, max allowed footprint 268435456, growth limit 268435456
12-22 14:39:58.811 E/LoadTask(14802):       at androidx.media3.exoplayer.upstream.DefaultAllocator.allocate(DefaultAllocator.java:106)
12-22 14:39:58.811 E/LoadTask(14802):       at androidx.media3.exoplayer.source.SampleDataQueue.preAppend(SampleDataQueue.java:233)
12-22 14:39:58.811 E/LoadTask(14802):       at androidx.media3.exoplayer.source.SampleDataQueue.sampleData(SampleDataQueue.java:194)
12-22 14:39:58.811 E/LoadTask(14802):       at androidx.media3.exoplayer.source.SampleQueue.sampleData(SampleQueue.java:608)
12-22 14:39:58.811 E/LoadTask(14802):       at androidx.media3.extractor.TrackOutput.sampleData(TrackOutput.java:176)
12-22 14:39:58.811 E/LoadTask(14802):       at androidx.media3.extractor.ts.H265Reader.consume(H265Reader.java:127)
12-22 14:39:58.811 E/LoadTask(14802):       at androidx.media3.extractor.ts.PesReader.consume(PesReader.java:147)
12-22 14:39:58.811 E/LoadTask(14802):       at androidx.media3.exoplayer.extrator.ts.TsExtractorCustom.read(TsExtractorCustom.java:548)
12-22 14:39:58.811 E/LoadTask(14802):       at androidx.media3.exoplayer.source.BundledExtractorsAdapter.read(BundledExtractorsAdapter.java:147)
12-22 14:39:58.811 E/LoadTask(14802):       at androidx.media3.exoplayer.source.ProgressiveMediaPeriod$ExtractingLoadable.load(ProgressiveMediaPeriod.java:1146)
12-22 14:39:58.811 E/LoadTask(14802):       at androidx.media3.exoplayer.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:453)
12-22 14:39:58.811 E/LoadTask(14802):       at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
12-22 14:39:58.811 E/LoadTask(14802):       at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
12-22 14:39:58.811 E/LoadTask(14802):       at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:764)
Devices that reproduce the issue

Android S905X5M / S905X3

Devices that do not reproduce the issue

No response

Reproducible in the demo app?

Yes

Reproduction steps

Please play the video I provided.

Expected result

play perfect

Actual result

UHD.log This is all of log when play this video

Media

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jLC6XCJKK9V1MWN-sc-KGyN5VroOg238/view?usp=drive_link

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