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Release codec resources hold by other apps
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Topics: #5799, #6107, #5516, #5219
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We’ve recently started to see increased rate of following error:
MediaCodecRenderer$DecoderInitializationException: Decoder init failed (AVC)
This occurs mostly on Huewei devices so we started to investigate there. I’ve came across above mentioned topics. It looks like a problem with releasing decoder resources, so I’ve looked at our code which is responsible for releasing the player and it looks ok.
It turns out that eg. for Huawei P20 Pro there’s only one shared AVC decoder instance available -> I’ve made a quick test:
- Play video in our app -> works fine
- Run eg. TED application
- Start video in TED app
- Minimize TED app
- Go back to our app
- Try to play video -> fail DecoderInitializationException
- Kill TED app
- Go back to our app
- Try to play video -> works fine
Is there any way to release programatically codec resources which are used by another app? This is quite a significant problem for us.
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- Created 4 years ago
- Comments:9 (4 by maintainers)
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We also tried to reach out to the TED developers to make them aware of the issue.
Thank you, guys! I think I got everything I needed.