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Some videos can't be played in Android TV - trancos91 - 2025-07-06
Hi! I wanted to report an issue I'm having with the Android TV app of Jellyfin.
To begin with, it's about some files (One Pace episodes) which have a bunch of subtitles and attached fonts. This was causing some issues with my computer to play it back; I couldn't play it in my Android TV, and it stuttered a lot in my client computer (using Jellyfin Media Player). I removed all subtitles I didn't need and extracted the ones I did, deleting all attachments and unnecessary fluff, and it worked great in my computer.
It didn't, however, run in my Android TV. When I played it, the activity report showed it to be playing in the TV in direct stream, but it didn't even start playing on the TV. After a while, it just "dropped" the activity on the hub i was monitoring from, and started pointing out there had been an error on the player in the TV.
Here's the logs
Here are ffmpeg's logs
And here's the file I was trying to play
Any help would be greatly appreciated
RE: Some videos can't be played in Android TV - trancos91 - 2025-07-06
So, now after some testing I see it doesn't work when I'm using an external .ass subtitle. It *does* work with an external .srt subtitle. With the .ass file it just errors out.