Unrecoverable player error

[isma123yil]

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Affected version

v0.28.3

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Go to random video it might happen sometimes

Expected behavior

Expect to play normally

Actual behavior

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Screenshots/Screen recordings

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Logs

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_DECODER_INIT_FAILED] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIgyqEgkcTI
• Content Country: US
• Content Language: en-US
• App Language: en_US
• Service: YouTube
• Timestamp: 2026-02-13T16:02:33.191+01:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.28.3
• OS: Linux samsung/a52sxqeea/a52sxq:14/UP1A.231005.007/A528BXXUAGXK8:user/release-keys 14 - 34

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: MediaCodecVideoRenderer error, index=0, format=Format(315, null, null, video/x-vnd.on2.vp9, vp9, 26585920, en, [2160, 3840, 60.0, ColorInfo(BT709, Limited range, SDR SMPTE 170M, false)], [-1, -1]), format_supported=NO_EXCEEDS_CAPABILITIES
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:601)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:230)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:319)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer$DecoderInitializationException: Decoder init failed: c2.qti.vp9.decoder, Format(315, null, null, video/x-vnd.on2.vp9, vp9, 26585920, en, [2160, 3840, 60.0, ColorInfo(BT709, Limited range, SDR SMPTE 170M, false)], [-1, -1])
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.maybeInitCodecWithFallback(MediaCodecRenderer.java:1061)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.maybeInitCodecOrBypass(MediaCodecRenderer.java:562)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.onInputFormatChanged(MediaCodecRenderer.java:1510)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.onInputFormatChanged(MediaCodecVideoRenderer.java:999)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.readSourceOmittingSampleData(MediaCodecRenderer.java:994)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.render(MediaCodecRenderer.java:809)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.render(MediaCodecVideoRenderer.java:854)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.doSomeWork(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:1047)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:522)
	... 4 more
Caused by: android.media.MediaCodec$CodecException: 
	at android.media.MediaCodec.native_start(Native Method)
	at android.media.MediaCodec.start(MediaCodec.java:2440)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.initialize(AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.java:166)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.access$100(AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.java:56)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter$Factory.createAdapter(AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.java:109)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.DefaultMediaCodecAdapterFactory.createAdapter(DefaultMediaCodecAdapterFactory.java:117)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.initCodec(MediaCodecRenderer.java:1140)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.maybeInitCodecWithFallback(MediaCodecRenderer.java:1050)
	... 12 more

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 14 / Oneui 6.1

Affected device model

Samsung A52 5G

Additional information

No response