Anyone experiencing an error when playing videos?

[lichtleviathan-bit]

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Anyone else is experiencing an error where the vid doesn't play and it only says unrecoverable player error? Started experiencing it last version to the latest version

Additional information

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_DECODING_FAILED] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1taPVVlfcc
• Content Country: US
• Content Language: en-US
• App Language: en_US
• Service: YouTube
• Timestamp: 2026-04-16T19:12:11.966+08:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.28.5
• OS: Linux Android 15 - 35

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: MediaCodecVideoRenderer error, index=0, format=Format(136, null, null, video/avc, avc1.64001F, 2315514, null, [1280, 720, 12.0, ColorInfo(BT709, Limited range, SDR SMPTE 170M, false)], [-1, -1]), format_supported=YES
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:384)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:103)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:311)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:408)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:85)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.video.MediaCodecVideoDecoderException: Decoder failed: c2.mtk.avc.decoder
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.createDecoderException(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:5)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.render(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:155)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.render(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:1)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.doSomeWork(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:98)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:247)
	... 4 more
Caused by: android.media.MediaCodec$CodecException: Error 0x80000000

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