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I'm trying to use MediaCodec to generate a mp4 file from a set of bitmaps i have.
After a lot of coding and testing I noticed that no example existent on internet or whatever work on the Android Studio emulator, but they do work in both of my real phone (android 7 and 9)... So i kept develoing only testing on real phones.

after a lot of coding and testing i got a working coding (working for both of my phones but crashing for the android emulator) and deployed to production.

My has been online for a couple of months and I have around 150 daily users, but around 30% of them are getting the same crash i noticed on the android emulator. so that isn't a limitation of the emulator.

E/ACodec: [OMX.google.h264.encoder] configureCodec returning error -38 signalError(omxError 0x80001001, internalError -2147483648) E/MediaCodec: Codec reported err 0x80001001, actionCode 0, while in state 3 E/MediaCodec: configure failed with err 0x80001001, resetting...

private static MediaCodecInfo selectCodec(String mimeType) {
        int numCodecs = MediaCodecList.getCodecCount();
        for (int i = 0; i < numCodecs; i++) {
            MediaCodecInfo codecInfo = MediaCodecList.getCodecInfoAt(i);
            if (!codecInfo.isEncoder()) {
                continue;
            String[] types = codecInfo.getSupportedTypes();
            for (String type : types) {
                if (type.equalsIgnoreCase(mimeType)) {
                    return codecInfo;
        return null;
MediaCodecInfo codecInfo = EncoderUtils.selectCodec("video/avc");
MediaCodec.createByCodecName(codecInfo.getName()).encoder.configure(format, null, null, MediaCodec.CONFIGURE_FLAG_ENCODE);
format has the following keys
"color-format" -> {Integer@17131} 21
"i-frame-interval" -> {Integer@17133} 3
"mime" -> "video/avc"
"profile" -> {Integer@17136} 8
"width" -> {Integer@17138} 928
"bitrate-mode" -> {Integer@17140} 0
"bitrate" -> {Integer@17142} 3500000
"language" -> "eng"
"frame-rate" -> {Integer@17146} 12
"max-input-size" -> {Integer@17140} 0
"height" -> {Integer@17149} 1152
then i get the following exception:
Non-fatal Exception: android.media.MediaCodec$CodecException: Error 0x80001001
       at android.media.MediaCodec.native_configure(MediaCodec.java)
       at android.media.MediaCodec.configure(MediaCodec.java:1960)
       at android.media.MediaCodec.configure(MediaCodec.java:1889)
       at com.tomatedigital.lottogram.util.EncoderUtils.start(EncoderUtils.java:98)
       at com.tomatedigital.lottogram.service.LottogramService$3.run(LottogramService.java:329)
       at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
       at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
       at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:764)
while the logcat prints:
I/OMXClient: IOmx service obtained
E/ACodec: [OMX.google.h264.encoder] configureCodec returning error -38
    signalError(omxError 0x80001001, internalError -2147483648)
E/MediaCodec: Codec reported err 0x80001001, actionCode 0, while in state 3
E/MediaCodec: configure failed with err 0x80001001, resetting...
I/OMXClient: IOmx service obtained
W/AMessage: failed to deliver message as target handler 7 is gone.
E/ACodec: [OMX.google.h264.encoder] configureCodec returning error -38
    signalError(omxError 0x80001001, internalError -2147483648)
E/MediaCodec: Codec reported err 0x80001001, actionCode 0, while in state 3
E/MediaCodec: configure failed with err 0x80001001, resetting...
I/OMXClient: IOmx service obtained
there is no such reference to 0x80001001 error anywhere i could find. what does it mean? how to solve it? does anyone have any clue?
                Those dimensions look pretty suspect... different OEMs supply different codecs, it wouldn't surprise me if some of them didn't support those dims.
– greeble31
                Oct 28, 2019 at 21:57
        
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