Fire Stick 4k MAX Error: Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.video.q: Decoder failed: OMX.MTK.VIDEO.DECODER.AVC

Just tried the latest release here:

Still having the same exact issue. Fire Stick 4k Max crashes while playing a video. There seems to also be something strange going on with the transcoder. It says it is direct playing but there are sporadic transcode events in the logs and sporadic .ts files in the transcode folder.
Any ideas what is goin on here?