Failed to allocate buffer while playing mp4 file

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Mo, 2013-09-02 at 09:50 +0800, Bruce Tsai wrote:
> I tested the same app on my recently bought new Nexus 7 (2013). 
> The media_codecs.xml of Nexus 7 is listed in [1].
> The screen is blank rather than weird video frames while playing
> content. 
> And the errors, see logs in [2], are a little different from Note 2. 
> There are no errors
> like "gstamcvideodec.c:1053:gst_amc_video_dec_loop:<amcvideodec-omxsecavcdec0> Failed to allocate buffer". 
> But "gstamc.c:701:gst_amc_codec_dequeue_output_buffer Failed to call
> Java method" still exists.
> 
> 
> For the unknown color formats, I found that some codecs have color
> format (0x7fa30c03) that is not mentioned in Android Java API [3].
> But I do find this number is defined as
> "COLOR_QCOM_FormatYUV420PackedSemiPlanar64x32Tile2m8ka" in
> gst-plugins-bad-static-0.10.23/sys/androidmedia/gstamc-constants.h.
> This is weird to consider a known color format as an unknown color
> format while scanning codec information.

It's only considered unknown because we did not implement support for it
yet. This would need to be done by someone who actually has hardware
that output its and I don't have any such hardware unfortunately :(