ExoPlayer crash on dolby digital stream when connected to bluetooth audio device
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Description
Version
Media3 1.9.0
More version details
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Devices that reproduce the issue
Google Tv Streamer
Devices that do not reproduce the issue
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Reproducible in the demo app?
No
Reproduction steps
Get a Google Tv Streamer and connect to rainberry 5.1 sound system via bluetooth (This is the sound system I am using to test but I don't think it matters). Let the player play some dolby digital stream.
Expected result
Player not crashing
Actual result
Playback crashes:
14:56:40.526 E [MediaCodecAudioRenderer] Audio sink error
androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.AudioSink$InitializationException: AudioTrack init failed 0 Config(48000, 252, 5, 28000) Format(Audio2_6, null, audio/mp4, audio/ac3, ac-3, 448000, dd, [-1, -1, -1.0, null], [6, 48000])
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.DefaultAudioSink.buildAudioOutput(DefaultAudioSink.java:1067)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.DefaultAudioSink.buildAudioOutputWithRetry(DefaultAudioSink.java:1033)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.DefaultAudioSink.initializeAudioOutput(DefaultAudioSink.java:811)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.DefaultAudioSink.handleBuffer(DefaultAudioSink.java:914)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.MediaCodecAudioRenderer.processOutputBuffer(MediaCodecAudioRenderer.java:859)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.drainOutputBuffer(MediaCodecRenderer.java:2259)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.render(MediaCodecRenderer.java:945)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.RendererHolder.render(RendererHolder.java:392)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.doSomeWork(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:1378)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:707)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:205)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:294)
at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.AudioOutputProvider$InitializationException: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Cannot create AudioTrack
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.AudioTrackAudioOutputProvider.getAudioOutput(AudioTrackAudioOutputProvider.java:356)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.AudioTrackAudioOutputProvider.getAudioOutput(AudioTrackAudioOutputProvider.java:62)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.DefaultAudioSink.buildAudioOutput(DefaultAudioSink.java:1058)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.DefaultAudioSink.buildAudioOutputWithRetry(DefaultAudioSink.java:1033)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.DefaultAudioSink.initializeAudioOutput(DefaultAudioSink.java:811)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.DefaultAudioSink.handleBuffer(DefaultAudioSink.java:914)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.MediaCodecAudioRenderer.processOutputBuffer(MediaCodecAudioRenderer.java:859)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.drainOutputBuffer(MediaCodecRenderer.java:2259)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.render(MediaCodecRenderer.java:945)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.RendererHolder.render(RendererHolder.java:392)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.doSomeWork(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:1378)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:707)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:205)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:294)
at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Cannot create AudioTrack
at android.media.AudioTrack$Builder.build(AudioTrack.java:1455)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.AudioTrackAudioOutputProvider.getAudioOutput(AudioTrackAudioOutputProvider.java:353)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.AudioTrackAudioOutputProvider.getAudioOutput(AudioTrackAudioOutputProvider.java:62)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.DefaultAudioSink.buildAudioOutput(DefaultAudioSink.java:1058)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.DefaultAudioSink.buildAudioOutputWithRetry(DefaultAudioSink.java:1033)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.DefaultAudioSink.initializeAudioOutput(DefaultAudioSink.java:811)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.DefaultAudioSink.handleBuffer(DefaultAudioSink.java:914)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.audio.MediaCodecAudioRenderer.processOutputBuffer(MediaCodecAudioRenderer.java:859)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.drainOutputBuffer(MediaCodecRenderer.java:2259)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.render(MediaCodecRenderer.java:945)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.RendererHolder.render(RendererHolder.java:392)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.doSomeWork(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:1378)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:707)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:205)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:294)
at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
I noticed on the device, this function returns: [ENCODING_PCM_16BIT, ENCODING_PCM_16BIT, ENCODING_E_AC3, ENCODING_AC4, ENCODING_E_AC3_JOC], but later when the player tries to initialize an AudioTrack with ENCODING_E_AC3 then the above crash happen.
It may be an OS level bug, but should you move this bluetooth check before the getCapabilitiesInternalForDirectPlayback call?
Media
Any dolby digital stream. But I cannot provide one.
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