com.yqritc.scalablevideoview.ScalableVideoView.reset: DASH not playing on Android, Exoplayer Crashes the app, HLS freezes the app.

[YoucefBen47]

Bug

Which player are you experiencing the problem on:

• Android

Environment info

System:
OS: macOS 13.2.1
CPU: (8) arm64 Apple M1
Memory: 64.86 MB / 8.00 GB
Shell: 5.8.1 - /bin/zsh
Binaries:
Node: 18.1.0 - /opt/homebrew/bin/node
Yarn: 1.22.19 - /opt/homebrew/bin/yarn
npm: 8.8.0 - /opt/homebrew/bin/npm
Watchman: 2022.03.21.00 - /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman
Managers:
CocoaPods: 1.11.3 - /opt/homebrew/bin/pod
SDKs:
iOS SDK:
Platforms: DriverKit 22.4, iOS 16.4, macOS 13.3, tvOS 16.4, watchOS 9.4
Android SDK: Not Found
IDEs:
Android Studio: 2022.1 AI-221.6008.13.2211.9619390
Xcode: 14.3/14E222b - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
Languages:
Java: 11.0.16 - /usr/bin/javac
npmPackages:
@react-native-community/cli: Not Found
react: 18.2.0 => 18.2.0
react-native: 0.71.3 => 0.71.3
react-native-macos: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
react-native: Not Found

Library version: 5.2.1

Expected behaviour

1. DASH url plays on Android.
   2.HLS urls plays on Android.

Reproducible sample code

We are using the player to play short videos. DASH urls do not work on Android. We are using HLS videos but when we click to navigate to another screen the app freezes and we get this log in the ANRs console:

com.yqritc.scalablevideoview.ScalableVideoView.reset
#5 pc 0x000000000004a044 /system/lib64/libbinder.so (android::BpBinder::transact(unsigned int, android::Parcel const&, android::Parcel*, unsigned int)+180)
This Binder call may be taking too long, causing the main thread to wait, and triggering the ANR.

We tried exoplayer before but the app started crashing on some phones.

[freeboub]

You need to try with exoplayer implementation ...
The mediaPlayer version is deprecated

[YoucefBen47]

@freeboub Thank you for replying. We did try exoplayer like I mentioned and that caused the app to crash on some devices.

[freeboub]

The crash seems to be linked to scalablevideoview ... No idea on how to handle that.
Anyway as MediaPlayer implementation has drop on V6, I will close the issue.
if you can reproduce your crash issue on V6, it would be interesting to fix it !