No sound and videos not playing in iTube and browser

[kde99]

1. Please check that no similar bug is already reported. Have a look on the list of open bugs at https://github.com/anbox/anbox/issues => checked none with the same error except a camera issue which was fixed before

2. Make sure you are running the latest version of Anbox before reporting an issue. Update snap to latest: snap refresh --devmode --edge anbox => version 4-8febc16 updated

3. Make sure you have debug logs enabled:
   sudo snap set anbox debug.enable=true => did

4. Reproduce the error while debug logs enabled.

5. Run the anbox logs collection utility and attach the tar file.
   sudo /snap/bin/anbox.collect-bug-info => system diag zip

6. ** Please paste the result of anbox system-info below:**

version: 4
snap-revision: 149
cpu:
  arch:  x86
  brand:        Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz
  features: 
    - aes
    - sse4_1
    - sse4_2
    - avx
os:
  name: Gentoo
  version: 
  snap-based: true
kernel:
  version: Linux version 4.18.5-gentoo (root@pen) (gcc version 8.2.0 (Gentoo 8.2.0-r2 p1.2)) #1 SMP Wed Sep 5 15:20:21 CEST 2018
  binder: true
  ashmem: true
graphics:
  egl:
    vendor: Mesa Project
    version: 1.4 (DRI2)
    extensions:
      - EGL_ANDROID_native_fence_sync
      - EGL_CHROMIUM_sync_control
      - EGL_EXT_buffer_age
      - EGL_EXT_create_context_robustness
      - EGL_EXT_image_dma_buf_import
      - EGL_EXT_image_dma_buf_import_modifiers
      - EGL_KHR_config_attribs
      - EGL_KHR_create_context
      - EGL_KHR_create_context_no_error
      - EGL_KHR_fence_sync
      - EGL_KHR_get_all_proc_addresses
      - EGL_KHR_gl_colorspace
      - EGL_KHR_gl_renderbuffer_image
      - EGL_KHR_gl_texture_2D_image
      - EGL_KHR_gl_texture_3D_image
      - EGL_KHR_gl_texture_cubemap_image
      - EGL_KHR_image
      - EGL_KHR_image_base
      - EGL_KHR_image_pixmap
      - EGL_KHR_no_config_context
      - EGL_KHR_reusable_sync
      - EGL_KHR_surfaceless_context
      - EGL_EXT_pixel_format_float
      - EGL_KHR_wait_sync
      - EGL_MESA_configless_context
      - EGL_MESA_drm_image
      - EGL_MESA_image_dma_buf_export
      - EGL_NOK_texture_from_pixmap
      - EGL_WL_bind_wayland_display
  gles2:
    vendor: Intel Open Source Technology Center
    vendor: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 18.0.5
    extensions:
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      - GL_EXT_frag_depth
      - GL_EXT_map_buffer_range
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      - GL_EXT_robustness
      - GL_EXT_separate_shader_objects
      - GL_EXT_shader_integer_mix
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      - GL_OES_EGL_image_external
      - GL_OES_EGL_sync
      - GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture
      - GL_OES_depth24
      - GL_OES_depth_texture
      - GL_OES_depth_texture_cube_map
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Please describe your problem:
When I try to play a video in iTube well it doesn't start and in the console (adb logcat) I see

09-09 08:39:30.783   111   918 E ACodec  : Unable to instantiate a decoder for type 'audio/vorbis' with err 0xfffffffe.
09-09 08:39:30.783   111   918 E ACodec  : signalError(omxError 0xfffffffe, internalError -2)
09-09 08:39:30.783   111   918 E MediaCodec: Codec reported err 0xfffffffe, actionCode 0, while in state 1
09-09 08:39:30.784   111   916 E SoundPool: Unable to load sample
09-09 08:39:30.784   111   167 W AudioService: onLoadSoundEffects(), Error -2147483648 while loading samples
09-09 08:39:30.788    40    40 I MediaPlayerService: MediaPlayerService::getOMX

whenever I press the play/pause button. Also the same happens in the webview shell the when I try youtube there.

The above errors changes to

09-09 08:48:12.966  1027  1129 E ACodec  : Unable to instantiate a decoder for type 'audio/opus' with err 0xfffffffe.
09-09 08:48:12.966  1027  1129 E ACodec  : signalError(omxError 0xfffffffe, internalError -2)
09-09 08:48:12.966  1027  1129 E MediaCodec: Codec reported err 0xfffffffe, actionCode 0, while in state 1
09-09 08:48:12.967  1027  1027 W MediaCodec-JNI: try to release MediaCodec from JMediaCodec::~JMediaCodec()...
09-09 08:48:12.967  1027  1027 W MediaCodec-JNI: done releasing MediaCodec from JMediaCodec::~JMediaCodec().
09-09 08:48:12.967  1027  1027 E cr_MediaCodecUtil: Failed to create MediaCodec: audio/opus, isSecure: false, requireSoftwareCodec: no
09-09 08:48:12.967  1027  1027 E cr_MediaCodecUtil: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Failed to initialize audio/opus, error 0xfffffffe
09-09 08:48:12.967  1027  1027 E cr_MediaCodecUtil: 	at android.media.MediaCodec.native_setup(Native Method)
09-09 08:48:12.967  1027  1027 E cr_MediaCodecUtil: 	at android.media.MediaCodec.<init>(MediaCodec.java:1776)
09-09 08:48:12.967  1027  1027 E cr_MediaCodecUtil: 	at android.media.MediaCodec.createDecoderByType(MediaCodec.java:1724)
09-09 08:48:12.967  1027  1027 E cr_MediaCodecUtil: 	at org.chromium.media.MediaCodecUtil.createDecoder(MediaCodecUtil.java:217)
09-09 08:48:12.967  1027  1027 E cr_MediaCodecUtil: 	at org.chromium.media.MediaCodecBridge.create(MediaCodecBridge.java:214)
09-09 08:48:12.967  1027  1027 E cr_MediaCodecUtil: 	at org.chromium.base.SystemMessageHandler.nativeDoRunLoopOnce(Native Method)
09-09 08:48:12.967  1027  1027 E cr_MediaCodecUtil: 	at org.chromium.base.SystemMessageHandler.handleMessage(SystemMessageHandler.java:39)
09-09 08:48:12.967  1027  1027 E cr_MediaCodecUtil: 	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
09-09 08:48:12.967  1027  1027 E cr_MediaCodecUtil: 	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
09-09 08:48:12.967  1027  1027 E cr_MediaCodecUtil: 	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6119)
09-09 08:48:12.967  1027  1027 E cr_MediaCodecUtil: 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
09-09 08:48:12.967  1027  1027 E cr_MediaCodecUtil: 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:886)
09-09 08:48:12.967  1027  1027 E cr_MediaCodecUtil: 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:776)
09-09 08:48:12.969    40    99 I MediaPlayerService: MediaPlayerService::getOMX

when in the WebView shell.

What were you expecting?:
I was expecting to view videos and hear sound from the emulator.

Additional info:

[eMPee584]

Ha ­— it was the missing decoder entries! Putting this
media_codecs.xml.txt
to /var/lib/anbox/rootfs-overlay/system/etc/media_codecs.xml fixed youtube and musicolet player : )
Edit: wow even concurrent sound (i.e. soft mixing) works..

[eMPee584]

actually, the file posted is from an i9103 and includes hw accelerated decoders for nv tegra 2 which will be unavailable on anbox.. so all OMX.Nvidia.* entries should be replaced by teh default software implementations OMX.google.* which are in https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/master/media/libstagefright/omx/SoftOMXPlugin.cpp

[morphis]

@eMPee584 Can you submit a PR to get this fixed in Anbox?

[ShapeShifter499]

#914 This doesn't seem to work for me. Was this PR supposed to fix media playback?

I seem to have the same exact issue as #151 and #956

[eMPee584]

@ShapeShifter499 a new anbox release is not enough, you would also need a new system image. The most recent on https://build.anbox.io/android-images/2018/07/19/ is too old to contain that fix. (@morphis how about rolling a new one? ; )
If you are using the debian package (for snap, locations will differ of both anbox dir and systemd service file) you can also add these xml files (media_codecs_google_audio.xml, media_codecs_google_telephony.xml, media_codecs_google_video.xml) to a dir /var/lib/anbox/rootfs-overlay/system/etc/ and put

[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/bin/anbox container-manager --daemon --privileged --data-path=/var/lib/anbox --use-rootfs-overlay

into a /etc/systemd/system/anbox-container-manager.service.d/override.conf file (create the parent directories as needed by mkdir -pv /etc/systemd/system/anbox-container-manager.service.d /var/lib/anbox/rootfs-overlay/system/etc/)

[ShapeShifter499]

@eMPee584 Using Arch Linux here.

So the codecs are technically included but most recent official anbox system image is missing the 'xml' setting files that help the system make use of them?

[eMPee584]

Xactly.

[Foorack]

@eMPee584 Thank you so much!! 😊

Running Ubuntu 19.04 with snap. Putting your media_codecs.xml file unmodified into /var/snap/anbox/common/rootfs-overlay/system/etc/media_codecs.xml and rebooting my laptop worked. I also had to set snap set anbox rootfs-overlay.enable=true ✔️

This fixed all my audio problem and sound is now playing perfectly, even DRM content like audiobooks. ❤️

[ShapeShifter499]

@eMPee584 After adding the overlay xml files to my setup this is what I get.

Sound is now working but video playback is not. The included webview browser is playing audio but no video. Videos from https://m.youtube.com are black boxes with sound and test videos from https://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html are white boxes with sound.