Objective-C Exception when Migrating Xamarin App to MAUI with MediaElement

[IniyansHub]

Hey everyone,

I'm currently working on migrating a Xamarin App to MAUI. In that, we have a page which renders a live video player where I'm using MediaElement for that purpose. However, whenever I try to navigate to that page, it throws the following error:

ObjCRuntime.ObjCException: Objective-C exception thrown. Name: UIViewControllerHierarchyInconsistency Reason: child view controller:<AVPlayerViewController: 0x7fc27067d200> should have parent view controller:<Microsoft_Maui_Platform_PageViewController: 0x7fc2557d2ca0> but actual parent is:<Microsoft_Maui_Controls_Handlers_Compatibility_NavigationRenderer: 0x7fc2d5bc8a00>
Here's a visual representation of the live visual tree where the error occurs:

Previously in Xamarin, we had been using the CrossMediaManager plugin to render video players.

I've noticed that I encounter this error only when trying to add the MediaElement inside a FloatingVideoPlayer Page, which is of type ContentView. If I try adding it in the BaseEventPage of type ContentView, it doesn't throw any error.

I've tried replicating this scenario in a sample application, but it didn't throw any error. Does anyone have any ideas on how to resolve this issue?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[ne0rrmatrix]

There is a PR out that should fix this issue. Can you try building this branch from source and test against your project? #1813