diff --git a/libraries/extractor/src/main/java/androidx/media3/extractor/text/cea/Cea608Decoder.java b/libraries/extractor/src/main/java/androidx/media3/extractor/text/cea/Cea608Decoder.java
index a27f0bdeae..b73e303825 100644
--- a/libraries/extractor/src/main/java/androidx/media3/extractor/text/cea/Cea608Decoder.java
+++ b/libraries/extractor/src/main/java/androidx/media3/extractor/text/cea/Cea608Decoder.java
@@ -460,8 +460,8 @@ public final class Cea608Decoder extends CeaDecoder {
     ccData.reset(subtitleData.array(), subtitleData.limit());
     boolean captionDataProcessed = false;
     while (ccData.bytesLeft() >= packetLength) {
-      byte ccHeader =
-          packetLength == 2 ? CC_IMPLICIT_DATA_HEADER : (byte) ccData.readUnsignedByte();
+      int ccHeader = packetLength == 2 ? CC_IMPLICIT_DATA_HEADER : ccData.readUnsignedByte();
+
       int ccByte1 = ccData.readUnsignedByte();
       int ccByte2 = ccData.readUnsignedByte();