The player hangs under certain circumstances

[821938089]

Version

Media3 1.4.0

More version details

No response

Devices that reproduce the issue

Redmi k60 Android 14

Devices that do not reproduce the issue

No response

Reproducible in the demo app?

Not tested

Reproduction steps

Adds two mediaitem to exoplayer, one of which is less than the minimum buffer length and the other needs to fail to load.
In practice there are more mediaitem behind it, and for the sake of reproducing the problem, two is enough.

Expected result

play the first mediaitem, failed on the second

Actual result

playback hang in buffering state, not play anything

Media

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Bug Report

• You will email the zip file produced by adb bugreport to android-media-github@google.com after filing this issue.

[debz-eight]

As far as I remember, if there is a player error after the media item failed to load and is in buffering state for too long, you can capture the error inside onPlayerError(). I have handled this case manually based on my requirements.

[821938089]

@debz-eight
In my case, the player doesn't call onPlayerError because the mediaitem that failed to load hasn't started playing yet.

[debz-eight]

@debz-eight In my case, the player doesn't call onPlayerError because the mediaitem that failed to load hasn't started playing yet.

If mediaItem has failed to load, then is it giving source error. Can you share any links for the files you are trying to create media item with, so that I can try to replicate with same. I tried with m3u8 files from my side. I used controller.setMediaItems() and set a MutableList of 5 MediaItems.

[821938089]

@debz-eight I have attached the media files to the issue so you can download them directly.

[tianyif]

@821938089，

Thanks for reporting! I could reproduce this issue from my end. I think your theory is right, the first item is shorter than the minimum buffer length for playback, but the buffer length will not increase as the second item fails to load, thus the ExoPlayerImplInternal will never decide to transition to READY_STATE to play the first item.

Will work on a fix for this.

[tianyif]

The fix is now in 1.4.1.