Video freezes for few minutes with audio playback (Media3 - 1.8.0 ) for a particular content
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Description
Version
Media3 1.8.0
More version details
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Devices that reproduce the issue
- Android STB running Android 12 with Media3 1.8.0 version.
Input to STB is a QAM feed. - VLC playing this stream also has the freeze but recovers after ~30 secs and continues to play . It plays for sometime and then freezes but recovers after few secs.
Devices that do not reproduce the issue
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Reproducible in the demo app?
Yes
Reproduction steps
- Play the attached TS file.
- Video freezes after few mins .
Description
Media3 version used : 1.8.0
Stream Source : TS data
On one particular channel ARMO , we see that the playback is frozen for ~20 mins after which the application crashes due to OOM .
We have captured logs for this and attaching the same here.
We have captured the TS dump for this content and played this in the Media3 Sample application and the same freeze was seen in the sample app.
Expected result
There should be no freeze and crash while streaming the content.
Actual result
Playback freezes for ~15 mins resulting in an OOO .
Media
media3Log1.txt
bugreport-dish_diw377-STT5.251005.001-2024-12-09-20-13-01.zip
Bug Report
- You will email the zip file produced by
adb bugreportto android-media-github@google.com after filing this issue.
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