Video with HD audio (e.g. TrueHD) stuck buffering after seek

[ebr11]

Issue description

The player will get stuck in the "Buffering" state after SimpleExoPlayer.seekTo(). This appears to be somehow related to the HD audio as switching the very same video item to a normal (AC3) audio track will no longer reproduce the problem.

The problem isn't 100% consistent but a few seeks will almost always "stick" the player and it will sometimes "unstick" if you seek several more times.

Reproduction steps

Play content with a TrueHD audio track such that it plays directly via the MatroskaExtractor and issue a few seekTo() commands. The player will enter the buffering state and never get to ready again even though the frame on-screen updates to the proper frame.

Link to test content

Samples are extremely large. Can try to provide upon request

Version of ExoPlayer being used

2.6.1 Dev-v2 branch (as of 2/13/18).

Device(s) and version(s) of Android being used

Reproduced on NVidia Shield TV Android 7.0 Shield experience 6.3.

A full bug report captured from the device

Can attempt to produce upon request.

[andrewlewis]

Please could you provide a clip from the test content (enough so that we can reproduce the issue in the demo app)? Thanks.

[ebr11]

Link emailed.

Thanks!

[ebr11]

Hi. Were you able to reproduce the problem with my link?

[ebr11]

I have discovered this problem may not be limited to HD audio as I have now seen other items get stuck in this condition.

[ebr11]

Hi. This issue is still labeled as "Need more info" but I did provide content that easily reproduces the problem. Are you still waiting for more info?

Thanks.

[andrewlewis]

Haven't got round to looking at this yet, I'm afraid.

You mentioned that this is not limited to HD audio. Could you provide some sample media for that too?

[ebr11]

I can't provide any other media that will definitely reproduce the issue like the one I did. For other media, it is much less likely and hard to predict but I have seen it occur.

It is very predictable with the media I provided though. Only one or two skips and it is going to get stuck.

Thanks.

[andrewlewis]

This should be fixed on dev-v2. Please try it out and let us know if you still have problems.

[ebr11]

Yes! Appears fixed.

Thanks very much.