2026-01-22, 03:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 2026-01-24, 08:04 AM by HyperSpeeed. Edited 1 time in total.)
Hello there!
I am having issues with a few movies from my local database.
When trying to play them, the screen stays black and there is no sound.
I can try to skip forward and the progress bar is shown, but there is still neither picture nor sound.
The mkv file in question plays fine in VLC as well as Jellyfin via browser and regular Android app - just not via the Android TV app.
I am on a Fire TV Cube (2nd generation), running on Fire OS 7.7.0.4 with Jellyfin Android TV 0.19.6 (sideloaded, downloaded APK from GitHub releases).
Attached to this post, you can find the media playback capability report as well as two ffprobe outputs from exemplar movies that do work and two from rather similar exemplar movies that do not work (similar in terms of ffprobe output).
Alas, I was not able to find a pattern in which movies work and which ones do not, yet.
On GitHub, there are quite a few bug reports regarding similar issues. But, I have no idea whether this is the same one.
Hence, feel free to directly redirect me to GitHub, if needed.
Thank you very much in advance!
I am having issues with a few movies from my local database.
When trying to play them, the screen stays black and there is no sound.
I can try to skip forward and the progress bar is shown, but there is still neither picture nor sound.
The mkv file in question plays fine in VLC as well as Jellyfin via browser and regular Android app - just not via the Android TV app.
I am on a Fire TV Cube (2nd generation), running on Fire OS 7.7.0.4 with Jellyfin Android TV 0.19.6 (sideloaded, downloaded APK from GitHub releases).
Attached to this post, you can find the media playback capability report as well as two ffprobe outputs from exemplar movies that do work and two from rather similar exemplar movies that do not work (similar in terms of ffprobe output).
Alas, I was not able to find a pattern in which movies work and which ones do not, yet.
On GitHub, there are quite a few bug reports regarding similar issues. But, I have no idea whether this is the same one.
Hence, feel free to directly redirect me to GitHub, if needed.
Thank you very much in advance!