Better handling of codec initialization failure in the player and thumbnail extractor. Return a runtime error instead of asserting if the software MPEG4/H.263 decoder fails to initialize.

Change-Id: I5cba02ee85a41e43c2623053de40f26e2cf2efe4
related-to-bug: 2699505

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/cmds/stagefright/stagefright.cpp b/cmds/stagefright/stagefright.cpp
index 4405da6..b838f32 100644
--- a/cmds/stagefright/stagefright.cpp
+++ b/cmds/stagefright/stagefright.cpp
@@ -75,7 +75,12 @@ static void playSource(OMXClient *client, const sp<MediaSource> &source) {
         }
     }
 
-    rawSource->start();
+    status_t err = rawSource->start();
+
+    if (err != OK) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "rawSource returned error %d (0x%08x)\n", err, err);
+        return;
+    }
 
     if (gPlaybackAudio) {
         AudioPlayer *player = new AudioPlayer(NULL);