UNRECOVERABLE PLAYER ERROR OCCURED

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Affected version

0.28.1

Steps to reproduce the bug

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_DECODING_FAILED] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS3wq6D_kus
• Content Country: IN
• Content Language: en-IN
• App Language: en_IN
• Service: YouTube
• Timestamp: 2026-01-19T22:20:13.348+05:30
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.28.1
• OS: Linux Redmi/flame_in/flame:15/AQ3A.241213.002/OS2.0.202.0.VGUINXM:user/release-keys 15 - 35

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: MediaCodecVideoRenderer error, index=0, format=Format(135, null, null, video/avc, avc1.4D401F, 504105, null, [852, 480, 30.0, ColorInfo(BT709, Limited range, SDR SMPTE 170M, false)], [-1, -1]), format_supported=YES
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:601)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:103)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:249)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:337)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:85)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.video.MediaCodecVideoDecoderException: Decoder failed: c2.qti.avc.decoder
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.createDecoderException(MediaCodecVideoRenderer.java:1864)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.render(MediaCodecRenderer.java:843)
	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: Error 0xffffffe0

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Affected device model

Redmi 14C 5g

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