Android VideoView: Frequent exception and crash (failure code: -32)

Question

Situation

I am using a VideoView which I show when I want to play a video. After playing the video I hide it again. So I do not recreate the VideoView each time.

Exception

Every once in a while the app crashes when I try to start playing a video (sometimes after I have already played several videos using the VideoView before).

I get the stacktrace you can find below. I have tried almost everything but without luck. Maybe you struggled with this issue as well or even know the reason?

02-23 15:10:52.362 22834-22890/com.app.example D/dalvikvm: GC_EXPLICIT freed 189K, 27% free 11296K/15368K, paused 0ms+0ms, total 10ms
02-23 15:10:52.422 22834-22890/com.app.example D/dalvikvm: GC_EXPLICIT freed 189K, 27% free 11296K/15368K, paused 0ms+0ms, total 10ms
02-23 15:12:19.832 22834-22890/com.app.example W/PGA: [22890] egl: eglDestroySurface (0x5583a7a0, 0x7956ad40)
02-23 15:12:19.832 22834-22890/com.app.example W/PGA: [22890] egl: eglDestroySurface (0x5583a7a0, 0x7956ad40) returned
02-23 15:12:19.872 22834-22843/com.app.example E/MediaPlayer: error (1, -2147483648)
02-23 15:12:20.182 22834-22834/com.app.example D/AndroidRuntime: Shutting down VM
02-23 15:12:20.182 22834-22834/com.app.example W/dalvikvm: threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x64d77b20)
02-23 15:12:20.182 22834-22847/com.app.example W/AudioSystem: AudioFlinger server died!
02-23 15:12:20.182 22834-22847/com.app.example W/IMediaDeathNotifier: media server died
02-23 15:12:20.182 22834-22847/com.app.example E/MediaPlayer: error (100, 0)
02-23 15:12:20.182 22834-22847/com.app.example E/MediaPlayer: error (100, 0)
02-23 15:12:20.182 22834-22847/com.app.example E/MediaPlayer: error (100, 0)
02-23 15:12:20.182 22834-22847/com.app.example E/MediaPlayer: error (100, 0)
02-23 15:12:20.182 22834-22847/com.app.example E/MediaPlayer: error (100, 0)
02-23 15:12:20.182 22834-22847/com.app.example W/AudioSystem: AudioPolicyService server died!
02-23 15:12:20.322 22834-22834/com.app.example I/Process: Sending signal. PID: 22834 SIG: 9
02-23 15:12:20.322 22834-22834/com.app.example D/AndroidRuntime: procName from cmdline: com.app.example
02-23 15:12:20.322 22834-22834/com.app.example E/AndroidRuntime: in writeCrashedAppName, pkgName :com.app.example
02-23 15:12:20.322 22834-22834/com.app.example D/AndroidRuntime: file written successfully with content: com.app.example StringBuffer : ;com.app.example
02-23 15:12:20.322 22834-22834/com.app.example E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
                                                                          Process: com.app.example, PID: 22834
                                                                          java.lang.RuntimeException: failure code: -32
                                                                              at android.media.MediaPlayer.invoke(MediaPlayer.java:664)
                                                                              at android.media.MediaPlayer.getInbandTrackInfo(MediaPlayer.java:1692)
                                                                              at android.media.MediaPlayer.scanInternalSubtitleTracks(MediaPlayer.java:1851)
                                                                              at android.media.MediaPlayer.access$600(MediaPlayer.java:529)
                                                                              at android.media.MediaPlayer$EventHandler.handleMessage(MediaPlayer.java:2198)
                                                                              at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
                                                                              at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
                                                                              at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5021)
                                                                              at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
                                                                              at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
                                                                              at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:827)
                                                                              at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:643)
                                                                              at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Possible duplicate of [Android MediaPlayer error (1, -2147483648)](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11540076/android-mediaplayer-error-1-2147483648) — sjkm, Feb 10 '17 at 17:13

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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Your problem seems to have been encountered by others.

One solution would be this

mVideoView.setOnCompletionListener(new MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener() {
        @Override
        public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
              if( mp != null ) { 
                    mp.setDisplay(null);
                    mp.reset();
                    mp.setDisplay(mMovieView.getHolder());
               }
         }
});

Another would be to update SDK

Or recreating the VideoView for each media content source

All of them suggest it is happening on Android KitKat 4.4.x.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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answered Feb 23 '16 at 15:23

Radu Ionescu

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Thanks Radu. I've also come across those answers. However, I also ended up recreating the VideoView each time... Seems the issue is gone. I can confirm that the first "solution" (onCompletion) doesn't work. Would be nice if we found a solution that works without recreating the VideoView... I'm going to accept anyway. – sjkm Feb 23 '16 at 17:17

Android VideoView: Frequent exception and crash (failure code: -32)

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