Unrecoverable player error

[lichtleviathan-bit]

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Affected version

Latest

Steps to reproduce the bug

Play any videos and the error immediately occurs

Expected behavior

Video playing

Actual behavior

The screen loads then stops saying error occurred pls report

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

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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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 15

Affected device model

Tecno canon pro 5g

Additional information

No response

[gotiniens]

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_NETWORK_CONNECTION_FAILED] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzWrCOAcXZU
• Content Country: NL
• Content Language: nl-
• App Language: nl_NL_#u-fw-mon-mu-celsius
• Service: YouTube
• Timestamp: 2026-04-19T19:20:30.42+02:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.28.5
• OS: Linux Android 16 - 36

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:17)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:317)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:128)
	at android.os.Looper.dispatchMessage(Looper.java:333)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:263)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:367)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:139)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$HttpDataSourceException: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:303)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:161)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:3)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:277)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:130)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:11)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.InitializationChunk.load(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:40)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:35)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1154)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:652)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1563)
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
	at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:191)
	at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:143)
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.ConscryptEngineSocket$SSLInputStream.readFromSocket(ConscryptEngineSocket.java:994)
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.ConscryptEngineSocket$SSLInputStream.processDataFromSocket(ConscryptEngineSocket.java:958)
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.ConscryptEngineSocket$SSLInputStream.-$$Nest$mprocessDataFromSocket(Unknown Source:0)
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.ConscryptEngineSocket.doHandshake(ConscryptEngineSocket.java:242)
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.ConscryptEngineSocket.startHandshake(ConscryptEngineSocket.java:224)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.io.RealConnection.connectTls(RealConnection.java:196)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.io.RealConnection.connectSocket(RealConnection.java:153)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.io.RealConnection.connect(RealConnection.java:116)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.StreamAllocation.findConnection(StreamAllocation.java:186)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.StreamAllocation.findHealthyConnection(StreamAllocation.java:128)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.StreamAllocation.newStream(StreamAllocation.java:97)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.HttpEngine.connect(HttpEngine.java:289)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.http.HttpEngine.sendRequest(HttpEngine.java:232)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpURLConnectionImpl.execute(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:465)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getResponse(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:411)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:542)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.DelegatingHttpsURLConnection.getResponseCode(DelegatingHttpsURLConnection.java:106)
	at com.android.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:30)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(r8-map-id-eeb60bc7eafd7d14a24650eafbfe8b4ce497b5ec4b44d8fb117249d53eb0f7fa:51)
	... 10 more

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[gotiniens]

I experience it with multiple videos and from multiple IP's