SSAI enabled Live stream playback failure on some android devices

[ShrikantSonawane]

Version

Media3 1.8.0

More version details

On several Android devices, when attempting to play SSAI-served live streams (DASH .mpd), ExoPlayer/Media3 sometimes attempts to use progressive extractors (MP4/TS/etc.) instead of DASH. Playback fails with UnrecognizedInputFormatException and no video segments are requested (black screen). Yospace confirmed their platform is returning a valid DASH manifest; this appears to be a client-side media-type inference/initialization problem.

• Player fails with ExoPlaybackException: Source error and downstream UnrecognizedInputFormatException from BundledExtractorsAdapter / ProgressiveMediaPeriod.
• No attempts to download DASH segments visible in network traffic for those sessions.
• Error correlates only with SSAI-enabled channels (non-SSAI channels work normally).
• Example stack trace (from one failing session):

Playback error
androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:927)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:897)\n      at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:226)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:313)
at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: androidx.media3.exoplayer.source.UnrecognizedInputFormatException: None of the available extractors (FlvExtractor, FlacExtractor, WavExtractor, FragmentedMp4Extractor, Mp4Extractor, AmrExtractor, PsExtractor, OggExtractor, TsExtractor, MatroskaExtractor, AdtsExtractor, Ac3Extractor, Ac4Extractor, Mp3Extractor, AviExtractor, JpegExtractor, PngExtractor, WebpExtractor, BmpExtractor, HeifExtractor, AvifExtractor) could read the stream. {contentIsMalformed\u003dfalse, dataType\u003d1}
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.source.BundledExtractorsAdapter.init(BundledExtractorsAdapter.java:108)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.source.ProgressiveMediaPeriod$ExtractingLoadable.load(ProgressiveMediaPeriod.java:1124)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:453)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1156)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:651)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1119)

Devices that reproduce the issue

Top Mobile/Tablet Devices (by error rate):
Samsung S23 Ultra (SM-918B)
Redmi Tab (23073RPBFG)
Samsung S24 Ultra (SM-928B)
Redmi Note 12 (22101316UP)
Samsung Flip 6 (SM-F741B)

Top Android TV Devices (by error rate):
Sony Bravia VU3
PrismPlus 4K ATV
PrismPlus P4KA
Mi Box S (MIBOX4)
PrismPlus 4KA

Devices that do not reproduce the issue

No response

Reproducible in the demo app?

Not tested

Reproduction steps

• Download the mewatch app from Email.
• Use a VPN set to the Singapore region and launch the application.
• Navigate to the side menu → Live TV.
• Play Channel 8 or Suria.

Expected result

SSAI live stream should play without throwing any androidx.media3.exoplayer.source.UnrecognizedInputFormatException error.

Actual result

Play SSAI live stream playback fails immediately and error is thrown -

Playback error
androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:927)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:897)\n      at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:226)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:313)
at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: androidx.media3.exoplayer.source.UnrecognizedInputFormatException: None of the available extractors (FlvExtractor, FlacExtractor, WavExtractor, FragmentedMp4Extractor, Mp4Extractor, AmrExtractor, PsExtractor, OggExtractor, TsExtractor, MatroskaExtractor, AdtsExtractor, Ac3Extractor, Ac4Extractor, Mp3Extractor, AviExtractor, JpegExtractor, PngExtractor, WebpExtractor, BmpExtractor, HeifExtractor, AvifExtractor) could read the stream. {contentIsMalformed\u003dfalse, dataType\u003d1}
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.source.BundledExtractorsAdapter.init(BundledExtractorsAdapter.java:108)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.source.ProgressiveMediaPeriod$ExtractingLoadable.load(ProgressiveMediaPeriod.java:1124)
at androidx.media3.exoplayer.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:453)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1156)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:651)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1119)

Media

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Bug Report

• You will email the zip file produced by adb bugreport to android-media-github@google.com after filing this issue.

[icbaker]

Thanks for the email, but I'm afraid we need a stream URL we can use to reproduce this issue - not an APK we cannot modify for debugging.

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Reproducible in the demo app?

Not tested

Please can you try this. If it doesn't repro in the demo app, please provide additional details on how we can modify the demo app to reproduce the issue.