Video blinking when switching between videos with different ratios (Android 14 only)

[yevhenKhamaziuk]

Version

Media3 1.2.0

More version details

No response

Devices that reproduce the issue

Pixel 7 pro, android 14

Devices that do not reproduce the issue

Pixel 7 Pro, android 13

Reproducible in the demo app?

Not tested

Reproduction steps

1. Play the video from a resource file.
2. Play another video from a resource file. The second video has a different side ratio.

Expected result

The video starts playing without visual resize effects.

Actual result

On Android 14, there seems to be an issue with video blinking when switching between videos with varying aspect ratios.

https://github.com/androidx/media/assets/153927626/d9a2842f-4e2f-4e0b-807f-7be8d033ce39

It looks like the last frame of the first video was applied scale from the second video.

I've also created an example project ( https://github.com/marzic93/ExoplayerBugExample ) to reproduce this bug.

Media

https://github.com/marzic93/ExoplayerBugExample/blob/main/app/src/main/res/raw/example_1.MP4 https://github.com/marzic93/ExoplayerBugExample/blob/main/app/src/main/res/raw/example_2.mp4

Bug Report

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[yevhenKhamaziuk]

@marcbaechinger Hello! Do you have any ideas why it happened?