Video player had error com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: MediaCodecVideoRenderer error

The error message comes up sometimes when I try to access a video displayed in my Flutter application. I am using Chewie (https://pub.dev/packages/chewie) when rendering my videos. The video is an mp4 file and works most of the time.

Full error message: Video player had error com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: MediaCodecVideoRenderer error, index=0, format=Format(1, null, null, video/avc, null, -1, null, [1280, 720, 29.973475], [-1, -1]), format_supported=YES

It is not evident to me how the problem can be reproduced because it happens arbitrarily.

I don’t know the ExoPlayer version number. But I downloaded Chewie and video_player yesterday so I should have the latest. If I can find the version number in the bug report let me know. The expected behavior is no error message and a working video Device: Samsung SM-J105H Android version 5.1.1

Here is info from the bugReport. I do not know what information is of use…

01-18 12:22:38.159   770  1228 D InputMethodManagerService: windowGainedFocus mCurrentFocusedUserId - 0 and mSecureKeypadEnabled-false
01-18 12:22:38.169  1691  1691 D InputMethodFrameWorkUtils: InputMethodSubtype is found as local:sv
01-18 12:22:38.169  1691  1691 D InputMethodFrameWorkUtils: InputMethodSubtype is set as local:sv
01-18 12:22:38.169  9355  9400 I flutter : singleTestscreenItem :: Chewie Error: Video player had error com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: MediaCodecVideoRenderer error, index=0, format=Format(1, null, null, video/avc, null, -1, null, [1280, 720, 29.973475], [-1, -1]), format_supported=YES
01-18 12:22:38.169  1691  1691 W ContextImpl: Calling a method in the system process without a qualified user: android.app.ContextImpl.sendBroadcast:1748 android.content.ContextWrapper.sendBroadcast:392 com.sec.android.inputmethod.inputmethodframework.InputMethodFrameWorkUtils.setCurrentInputMethodSubtype:49 com.ime.framework.common.InputManagerImpl.finishInput:5031 com.sec.android.inputmethod.SamsungKeypad.onFinishInput:682 
01-18 12:22:38.179 14816 14816 W linker  : libliger.so: unused DT entry: type 0x6ffffef5 arg 0x4b4c
01-18 12:22:38.179  1691  1691 D SamsungIME: onStartInput: No inputType, No imeOption, isInputViewShown = false, isExtractViewShown = false, isShowInputRequested = false, isConfigChanged = false
01-18 12:22:38.179  9497  9497 D StatusBar: getNumberOfActiveSim: 1
01-18 12:22:38.179   770   848 V WindowStateAnimator: Finishing drawing window Window{c0d5266 u0 d0 SurfaceView}: mDrawState=READY_TO_SHOW
01-18 12:22:38.189 14816 14816 W linker  : libliger.so: unused DT entry: type 0x6ffffffe arg 0x4b0c

[adamkoch]

I am also seeing similar error in a production Flutter app that uses the video_player package (the chewie flutter package uses video_player as well).

I see a number of crashes in Crashlytics, almost always Samsung devices like Samsung A11.

Unfortunately Flutter itself (or Crashlytics in Flutter) doesn’t seem to capture much additional info, it sends me this:

Non-fatal Exception: io.flutter.plugins.firebase.crashlytics.FlutterError: PlatformException(VideoError, Video player had error com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: MediaCodecVideoRenderer error, index=0, format=Format(1, null, null, video/avc, avc1.4D401F, -1, null, [720, 480, 25.0], [-1, -1]), format_supported=YES, null, null). Error thrown null.
       at .()

The Flutter video_player package is using a recent, but not latest version of ExoPlayer, v2.12.1: https://github.com/flutter/plugins/blob/2068cce1d06c7cbbc6e241f83af24e67dc72863d/packages/video_player/video_player/android/build.gradle#L47

[ianvillamia]

Any fixes for flutter? still not able to find a fix