java.io.EOFException: ExoPlayer does not play local short MP4 file

[AndroVid]

Hi, we are moving from MediaPlayer to ExoPlayer but when we try to play the attached file ExoPlayer fails with the following exception. The same file is succesfully played with MediaPlayer. ExoPlayer plays all other files successfully, but there is a problem with this file.

ExoPlayer version: 2.5.3
TEsted on: 1. Android-26 (X86 Emulator) 2. Samsung Galaxy J7 (SM-J710FQ) Android 7.0

ExoPlayer is created with default settings:

        m_BandwidthMeter = new DefaultBandwidthMeter();

        m_VideoTrackSelectionFactory =
                new AdaptiveTrackSelection.Factory(m_BandwidthMeter);

        // Produces DataSource instances through which media data is loaded.
        String appName = getApplicationContext().getPackageName();
        m_DataSourceFactory = new DefaultDataSourceFactory(this,
                Util.getUserAgent(this, appName), m_BandwidthMeter );

        // Produces Extractor instances for parsing the media data.
        m_ExtractorsFactory = new DefaultExtractorsFactory();
		
        m_TrackSelector = new DefaultTrackSelector( m_VideoTrackSelectionFactory);

        m_VideoPlayer = ExoPlayerFactory.newSimpleInstance(this, m_TrackSelector );

I/ExoPlayerImpl: Init 7b1e44d [ExoPlayerLib/2.5.3] [generic_x86, Android SDK built for x86, Google, 26]
E/ExoPlayerImplInternal: Source error.
                                                                         java.io.EOFException
                                                                             at com.google.android.exoplayer2.extractor.DefaultExtractorInput.readFromDataSource(DefaultExtractorInput.java:262)
                                                                             at com.google.android.exoplayer2.extractor.DefaultExtractorInput.readFully(DefaultExtractorInput.java:70)
                                                                             at com.google.android.exoplayer2.extractor.DefaultExtractorInput.readFully(DefaultExtractorInput.java:79)
                                                                             at com.google.android.exoplayer2.extractor.mp4.Mp4Extractor.readAtomPayload(Mp4Extractor.java:266)
                                                                             at com.google.android.exoplayer2.extractor.mp4.Mp4Extractor.read(Mp4Extractor.java:147)
                                                                             at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.ExtractorMediaPeriod$ExtractingLoadable.load(ExtractorMediaPeriod.java:704)
                                                                             at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:315)
                                                                             at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1162)
                                                                             at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:636)
                                                                             at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:764)

big_buck_bunny_720p_ExoPlayer_not_play.zip

[ojw28]

The file has a strange edit list that we don't handle, which is causing the failure. We're going to relax our handling of such edit lists to play the file as though the edit list didn't exist, rather than failing, on the basis that most often this type of edit list is unintentional/broken.

[AndroVid]

Is there any work-around solution to this problem until we get the fixed version?

[ojw28]

Fix is in the dev-v2 branch. The only workaround would be to patch the fix into the version of ExoPlayer included in your app.

[AndroVid]

Thank you.