Unhandled exception on initialize with wrong YouTube video ID

[emersonsiega]

We have a scenario where we receive YouTube video IDs from an API. These IDs is manually inserted by our marketing team. As it's a manually process, errors can happens.

With that in mind, I was trying to test how the pod_player handle a wrong YouTube video ID, and I saw that the initialize method never finishes (in pod_player_controller.dart).

The initialize stuck because a postFrameCallback is fired inside this method. This postFrame receive an exception that is not correctly handled. While this happens, the _checkAndWaitTillInitialized continues in loop, waiting until the _ctr.controllerInitialized returns true, what never happens.

I tried to put a listener and wait for a status of error, but nothing os sent to that listener...
I'll make a fork of this project and resolve this locally. If it's ok, I'll send a PR with that fix.

[emersonsiega]

As I don't know the sources deeply, I'll simply rethrow this exception correctly, so, whoever calls initialise method will be able to handle this in a better way.

[emersonsiega]

Solved.

[jrpursuiteam]

Hi, I am still experiencing this issue with 0.2.0. I cant upgrade to 0.2.1 due to dependency conflict. However, I see others reported on below stackoverflow link with 0.2.1 as well. Is anyone tried recently. I tried simple example code given on the documentation.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76976791/flutter-pod-player-shows-error-while-playing-video-message
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74253230/flutter-pod-player-exception-videoquality-cannot-be-empty
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76899225/error-while-playing-video-in-flutter-pod-player

flutter: PlatformException(VideoError, Failed to load video: unknown error, null, null)
flutter:
#0 PodPlayerController._checkAndWaitTillInitialized (package:pod_player/src/controllers/pod_player_controller.dart:73:9)
#1 PodPlayerController._checkAndWaitTillInitialized (package:pod_player/src/controllers/pod_player_controller.dart:82:11)

#2 PodPlayerController._checkAndWaitTillInitialized (package:pod_player/src/controllers/pod_player_controller.dart:82:5)

#3 PodPlayerController.initialise (package:pod_player/src/controllers/pod_player_controller.dart:61:5)