Add software decoder fallback to fix H.265/HDR green screen on Android TV

[Copilot]

H.265/HDR videos render as green corrupted frames on some Android TV devices. The hardware H.265 decoder outputs 10-bit HDR color data that SurfaceView can't correctly composite, causing the artifacts shown above. Since this is a silent failure (no PlaybackException is thrown), the existing SurfaceView→TextureView error retry path never triggers.

Changes

• New preference (VIDEO_DISABLE_HARDWARE_DECODER, default false) added to Settings → Slideshow. When enabled, NextRenderersFactory is configured with EXTENSION_RENDERER_MODE_PREFER, forcing ExoPlayer to prefer the FFmpeg-based software decoders over hardware codecs.

  NextRenderersFactory(context).apply {
      if (config.disableHardwareDecoder) {
          setExtensionRendererMode(DefaultRenderersFactory.EXTENSION_RENDERER_MODE_PREFER)
      }
  }

• MediaSliderConfiguration gains a disableHardwareDecoder: Boolean field (default false) with full Parcelable serialization.

• All three MediaSliderConfiguration construction sites (GenericAssetFragment, FolderFragment, ScreenSaverService) pass PreferenceManager.get(VIDEO_DISABLE_HARDWARE_DECODER).

Warning

Firewall rules blocked me from connecting to one or more addresses (expand for details)

I tried to connect to the following addresses, but was blocked by firewall rules:

• dl.google.com
  • Triggering command: /usr/lib/jvm/temurin-17-jdk-amd64/bin/java /usr/lib/jvm/temurin-17-jdk-amd64/bin/java --add-opens=java.base/java.util=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.lang.invoke=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.prefs/java.util.prefs=ALL-UNNAMED --add-exports=jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.api=ALL-UNNAMED --add-exports=jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.util=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.nio.charset=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.net=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens=java.base/java.util.concurrent.atomic=ALL-UNNAMED -Xmx2048m -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Duser.country -Duser.language=en -Duser.variant -cp /home/REDACTED/.gradle/wrapper/dists/gradle-8.9-bin/90cnw93cvbtalezasaz0blq0a/gradle-8.9/lib/gradle-daemon-main-8.9.jar -javaagent:/home/REDACTED/.gradle/wrapper/dists/gradle-8.9-bin/90cnw93cvbtalezasaz0blq0a/gradle-8.9/lib/agents/gradle-instrumentation-agent-8.9.jar org.gradle.launcher.daemon.bootstrap.GradleDaemon 8.9 (dns block)

If you need me to access, download, or install something from one of these locations, you can either:

• Configure Actions setup steps to set up my environment, which run before the firewall is enabled
• Add the appropriate URLs or hosts to the custom allowlist in this repository's Copilot coding agent settings (admins only)

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