[Bug] YouTube video stops/crashes when Rotating screen

[ProvablyAudit]

Checklist

• I make sure that the issue is NOT a duplicate of pinned issues
• I make sure I am using the LATEST version - check here
• I understand that issues with limited impact, such as those occurring on specific devices or under specific network conditions, will not be fixed
• I have attached the error report in the issue

Describe the bug

Logs:

{"user_action":"play stream","request":"Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_FAILED_RUNTIME_CHECK] occurred while playing (Anonymous)","endpoint":"visionos","package":"InfinityLoop1309.NewPipeEnhanced","version":"5.3.1","os":"Linux Android 17 - 37","time":"2026-09-15 21:16","exceptions":["com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Unexpected runtime error\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(r8-map-id-6c8e3dd3160be81a80a9d5275bebe86313695bda6011e8579f730b08683dad6a:276)\n\tat android.os.Handler.dispatchMessageImpl(Handler.java:138)\n\tat android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:125)\n\tat android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:296)\n\tat android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:397)\n\tat android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:139)\nCaused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: \n\tat android.media.MediaCodec.native_setSurface(Native Method)\n\tat android.media.MediaCodec.setOutputSurface(MediaCodec.java:2647)\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.setOutputSurface(r8-map-id-6c8e3dd3160be81a80a9d5275bebe86313695bda6011e8579f730b08683dad6a:6)\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.setOutputSurfaceV23(r8-map-id-6c8e3dd3160be81a80a9d5275bebe86313695bda6011e8579f730b08683dad6a:1)\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.setOutput(r8-map-id-6c8e3dd3160be81a80a9d5275bebe86313695bda6011e8579f730b08683dad6a:75)\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.handleMessage(r8-map-id-6c8e3dd3160be81a80a9d5275bebe86313695bda6011e8579f730b08683dad6a:78)\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.deliverMessage(r8-map-id-6c8e3dd3160be81a80a9d5275bebe86313695bda6011e8579f730b08683dad6a:21)\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.sendMessageToTarget(r8-map-id-6c8e3dd3160be81a80a9d5275bebe86313695bda6011e8579f730b08683dad6a:9)\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.sendMessageInternal(r8-map-id-6c8e3dd3160be81a80a9d5275bebe86313695bda6011e8579f730b08683dad6a:14)\n\tat com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(r8-map-id-6c8e3dd3160be81a80a9d5275bebe86313695bda6011e8579f730b08683dad6a:143)\n\t... 5 more\n"],"user_comment":""}

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf5Tb8brMSI","content_language":"en-US","content_country":"US","app_language":"en_US_#u-fw-mon-ms-metric-mu-celsius","service":"YouTube

Version

Latest 5.3.1

Frequency

Always (100% of the time)

Device

Android 17

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Open video
2. Start the video
3. Rotate screen
4. Now it stops playing and need to start agajn

Additional context

No response

[InfinityLoop1308]

No idea why this happen but might be solved along with another issue, let's see if this still happen in 5.4.0.

[ProvablyAudit]

Hi @InfinityLoop1308 , after 5.4 is not fixed yet . Refer to below logs

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_FAILED_RUNTIME_CHECK] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ4y_aF5D-M
• Content Country: US
• Content Language: en-US
• App Language: en_US_#u-fw-mon-ms-metric-mu-celsius
• Service: YouTube (Anonymous)
• Endpoint: visionos
• Version: 5.4.0-beta
• OS: Linux Android 17 - 37

Crash log

org.schabi.newpipe.player.PlayerError: ERROR_CODE_FAILED_RUNTIME_CHECK
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.ExoPlayerEventAdapter.onPlayerError(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:399)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImpl.lambda$updatePlaybackInfo$16(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:3)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImpl.$r8$lambda$Bwd_WtKigxBd7JLyjK0ntOJdfNc(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:1)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImpl$$ExternalSyntheticLambda7.invoke(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:34)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.util.ListenerSet$ListenerHolder.invoke(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:18)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.util.ListenerSet.lambda$queueEvent$0(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:17)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.util.ListenerSet.$r8$lambda$AHn9s3qXpdWTkpx2n1DyAlVZ5wI(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:1)
	at androidx.profileinstaller.DeviceProfileWriter$$ExternalSyntheticLambda0.run(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:16)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.util.ListenerSet.flushEvents(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:68)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImpl.updatePlaybackInfo(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:431)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImpl.handlePlaybackInfo(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:208)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImpl.lambda$new$1(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:1)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImpl.$r8$lambda$dCnkoIUYTim5-glExosd_PMTlm0(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:1)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImpl$$ExternalSyntheticLambda20.run(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:30)
	at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:1095)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessageImpl(Handler.java:135)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:125)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:296)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:397)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:9523)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:575)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:939)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Unexpected runtime error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:276)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessageImpl(Handler.java:138)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:125)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:296)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:397)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:139)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: 
	at android.media.MediaCodec.native_setSurface(Native Method)
	at android.media.MediaCodec.setOutputSurface(MediaCodec.java:2647)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.mediacodec.AsynchronousMediaCodecAdapter.setOutputSurface(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:6)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.setOutputSurfaceV23(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:1)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.setOutput(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:75)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.video.MediaCodecVideoRenderer.handleMessage(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:78)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.deliverMessage(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:21)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.sendMessageToTarget(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:9)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.sendMessageInternal(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:14)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(r8-map-id-6e2149fa4e08cca9cb00902c0fb26d96734ca48143855f87b7975f55630a1d0d:143)
	... 5 more

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