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No video on ExoPlayer when playing xvid
Describe the bug No video (black screen with controls) on ExoPlayer when playing xvid remuxed inside mkv container, it plays only audio.
To Reproduce
- Play any xvid encoded file in mkv
Expected behavior Ability to play it.
Logs There is nothing about that in logs.
System (please complete the following information):
- App version: v2.3.0-beta.1
- Android version: Android 11
- Device manufacturer and model: Oneplus 3
- Jellyfin server version: 10,7,5
- The type of video player implementation used: native player (ExoPlayer)
Additional context It works in external player (VLC).
Xvid/avi is not supported by ExoPlayer (google/ExoPlayer#2092) so we should change the device profile to force transcode for the codec.
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The problem with this is that Xvid seems to have the same codec string as mpeg4, thus we can't filter it out from the device profile. However, there's hope we'll see support for it in ExoPlayer soon: https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues/2092#issuecomment-1019295030
