diff --git a/libraries/transformer/src/main/java/androidx/media3/transformer/VideoTranscodingSamplePipeline.java b/libraries/transformer/src/main/java/androidx/media3/transformer/VideoTranscodingSamplePipeline.java
index 9032f62256..912efd5bff 100644
--- a/libraries/transformer/src/main/java/androidx/media3/transformer/VideoTranscodingSamplePipeline.java
+++ b/libraries/transformer/src/main/java/androidx/media3/transformer/VideoTranscodingSamplePipeline.java
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ import org.checkerframework.dataflow.qual.Pure;
  * Pipeline to decode video samples, apply transformations on the raw samples, and re-encode them.
  */
 /* package */ final class VideoTranscodingSamplePipeline implements SamplePipeline {
-  private static final String TAG = "VideoTranscodingSP";
 
   private final int maxPendingFrameCount;