Expo video doesnt play when react-native-track-player is installed

[StenerNordnes]

Describe the Bug
Expo video won't start playback when react-native-track-player@5.0.0-alpha0 is installed on Android. No JS errors shown, video stays paused.

Steps To Reproduce
Use the expo video example component and install react-native-track-player version 5.0.0-alpha0

1. Create new Expo app
2. npm install expo-video react-native-track-player@5.0.0-alpha0
3. npx expo run:android
4. Open the example screen using expo-video and press Play

Expected behavior
Video should start playing.

Actual behavior
Play button does nothing; video does not start. Removing react-native-track-player makes video play normally.

Code To Reproduce
Expo video example app

import { useEvent } from "expo";
import { useVideoPlayer, VideoView } from "expo-video";
import { StyleSheet, View, Button } from "react-native";

const videoSource =
  "https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4";

export default function VideoScreen() {
  const player = useVideoPlayer(videoSource, (player) => {
    player.loop = true;
    player.play();
  });

  const { isPlaying } = useEvent(player, "playingChange", {
    isPlaying: player.playing,
  });

  return (
    <View style={styles.contentContainer}>
      <VideoView style={styles.video} player={player} />
      <View style={styles.controlsContainer}>
        <Button
          title={isPlaying ? "Pause" : "Play"}
          onPress={() => {
            if (isPlaying) {
              player.pause();
            } else {
              player.play();
            }
          }}
        />
      </View>
    </View>
  );
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  contentContainer: {
    flex: 1,
    padding: 10,
    alignItems: "center",
    justifyContent: "center",
    paddingHorizontal: 50,
  },
  video: {
    width: 350,
    height: 275,
  },
  controlsContainer: {
    padding: 10,
  },
});

Replicable on Example App?
Had trouble setting up the example app, but a default expo project with the expo video example component will replicate the issue on an Android Simulator.

When removing react-native-track-player, the video plays normally

Environment Info:

• OS: Windows 11
• Node: 23.4.0
• npm: 11.4.2
• Expo SDK: 53.0.22
• react-native: 0.79.6
• react-native-track-player: 5.0.0-alpha0
• expo-video: 2.2.2

[lovegaoshi]

u need to ask in the expo repo why is their video implementation calling onTracksSelected bc its marked as deprecated and its never meant to be called

meanwhile the other video library RNV doesnt override this and works just fine

in fact if u actually bothered to look at logcat and got this error msg Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: onTracksSelected not implemented, search onTracksSelected on the expo repo ull find expo/expo#39086. if u ask me i dont know them upgrading to 1.8.0 solves the issue but id recommend tracking over there instead of here. their 3.0.10 fixes this.

[jspizziri]

Closing as this issue is due to an external lib.