App can't play video on rooted android phone!

[NeeL21YT]

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Affected version

0.28.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Install NewPipe on the rooted device
2. Try to play any video

Expected behavior

Should play the video normally instead

Actual behavior

Throws a unknown error

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_AUDIO_TRACK_INIT_FAILED] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q05yqoGek5k
• Content Country: GB
• Content Language: en-GB
• App Language: en_GB
• Service: YouTube
• Timestamp: 2025-08-01T17:33:07.245+05:30
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.28.0
• OS: Linux Android 6.0.1 - 23

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: MediaCodecAudioRenderer error, index=1, format=Format(140, null, null, audio/mp4a-latm, mp4a.40.2, 130632, und, [-1, -1, -1.0], [2, 44100]), format_supported=YES
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:578)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:98)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:61)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.audio.AudioSink$InitializationException: AudioTrack init failed 0 Config(44100, 12, 132300) Format(null, null, null, audio/raw, null, -1, null, [-1, -1, -1.0], [2, 44100])
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.audio.DefaultAudioSink$Configuration.buildAudioTrack(DefaultAudioSink.java:2154)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.audio.DefaultAudioSink.buildAudioTrack(DefaultAudioSink.java:1073)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.audio.DefaultAudioSink.buildAudioTrackWithRetry(DefaultAudioSink.java:1051)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.audio.DefaultAudioSink.initializeAudioTrack(DefaultAudioSink.java:843)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.audio.DefaultAudioSink.handleBuffer(DefaultAudioSink.java:929)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.audio.MediaCodecAudioRenderer.processOutputBuffer(MediaCodecAudioRenderer.java:709)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.drainOutputBuffer(MediaCodecRenderer.java:1889)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.MediaCodecRenderer.render(MediaCodecRenderer.java:782)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.doSomeWork(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:1007)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:502)
	... 3 more
	Suppressed: com.google.android.exoplayer2.audio.AudioSink$InitializationException: AudioTrack init failed 0 Config(44100, 12, 132300) Format(null, null, null, audio/raw, null, -1, null, [-1, -1, -1.0], [2, 44100])
		... 13 more

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

6.0.1

Affected device model

Samsung J2 Pro (2016)

Additional information

No response

[NeeL21YT]

Version: Android 6.1
Device: Samsung J2 Pro (2016)
OS: Stock
Root: Yes using magisk

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Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.audio.AudioSink$InitializationException: AudioTrack init failed 0 Config(44100, 12, 132300)

Duplicate of #10802

Please search (better, with different keywords, particularly take these from first line of the error report or line after "caused by") for duplicates the next time you want to open an issue, thank you.