“Internal runtime error” on certain PlayReady-protected assets

[MizzleDK]

I'm working on an app for Android TV devices, which uses ExoPlayer as the video player and I'm using Smooth Streaming video with PlayReady DRM. The app is capable of perform key requests, etc. without any issues and most of the content is playing. I'm currently using the demo app's video player component.

I am, however, experiencing issues with certain video assets. The following error log is visible in Logcat:

E/ExoPlayerImplInternal: Internal runtime error.
android.media.MediaCodec$CodecException: Error 0xffffffff
at android.media.MediaCodec.native_queueSecureInputBuffer(Native Method)
at android.media.MediaCodec.queueSecureInputBuffer(MediaCodec.java:2535)
at com.google.android.exoplayer.MediaCodecTrackRenderer.feedInputBuffer(MediaCodecTrackRenderer.java:721)
at com.google.android.exoplayer.MediaCodecTrackRenderer.doSomeWork(MediaCodecTrackRenderer.java:529)
at com.google.android.exoplayer.SampleSourceTrackRenderer.doSomeWork(SampleSourceTrackRenderer.java:128)
at com.google.android.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.doSomeWork(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:432)
at com.google.android.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:211)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:100)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:61)
at com.google.android.exoplayer.util.PriorityHandlerThread.run(PriorityHandlerThread.java:40)

I know that the assets in question work, as we're successfully using them on Chromecast.

I'm pretty puzzled by the error as it only happens on some assets and there's seemingly no connection between them. Any help would be much appreciated.

[MizzleDK]

It may be worth noting that whenever the SS manifest contains two StreamIndex elements of the audio type, it happens. If there's only one, it works as expected.

[ojw28]

There's not a lot we can do to help here unless we're provided with the information requested in the issue template.

[MizzleDK]

If it helps, it works if I start the video stream with audio disabled. Once video is running, I'm able to enable the audio stream again, and it works without any problems from there on out.

[ojw28]

What would help is if you included the information requested in the issue template. Else we will close this issue as we have no way to reproduce it.