unable to fast forward #308
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Can you share the media information of a file you're having this issue with? This would help reproducing it so we can fix it. You can find the mediainfo using ffmpeg, vlc or in the web client from Jellyfin (Click on the three dots menu and then on "Media Info" on the details page). |
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I'm not OP, but I just installed Jellyfin today after trying Emby a couple times last year and being sick of Plex's DVR problems. It seems any media I try has no buttons for "time shifting" forward or backwards. All of my media is .ts straight from the HDHomerun tuner. I have existing Plex recordings, recordings made in Jellyfin, and live TV doing the same thing in the Android TV app. It works properly and has the time shift buttons on the Android app though if that helps. If there's other info I can get, let me know. Eager to switch to Jellyfin and this is the only thing stopping me. |
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If I understand this correctly this is related to the live tv feature? |
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I thought it was initially, but it seems to be an issue with recordings also. Unfortunately I don't currently have any other types of files, but both live and recorded TV have no option to time shift, and no buttons on the Shield Controller work as a substitute. I tried using VLC as well for Live TV with no luck. |
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I can't forward / rewind any movie too on firetv, it works on nexus player |
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Here's a sample file that was having issues with this. It occurred during transcoding h264 8 bit so it's probably a common issue for file types
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Hi, same problem with 0.11.3 installed on a Mi box S, fast forward or backward results in media restarting from the beginning. Do you still need logs or videos infos? Thank you for the great work. |
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Strange but cool behavior, there was an androidTV OS (9 Pie) update available today for my Xiaomi Mi box S and since I did it, fast forward and backward are working again, with EVOplayer or libVLC. |
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That's good news. I was doing some testing yesterday by installing the AndroidTV app on my Samsung phone and it didn't have any of the playback issues. Makes me suspect that it's minor compatibility issues occurring with the systems and not so much errors in the code logic |
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Yes, that's really reassuring, I didn't keep track of which android version was installed on my mi box before the update, I suspect it was still 8.0 or 8.1, perhaps some mi box S owners will check this information before updating, but the OP is having this problem with a Shield updated to android 9 so I suppose he'll have to wait for a newer build. |
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I did some more tests and there's still a forward/backward problem with my Xiaomi Mi Box S updated to latest Pie. It works perfectly on the first played episode of a TV serie but when jellyfin auto plays the next one, fast forward or backward action is restarting this next episode from the beginning. So I stop it, go back to the episodes list and play it again, it's now OK. |
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It's weird that the behavior doesn't pop up until the second episode. Good catch |
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I have an original Mi Box (not the S) and I can fast forward, but after about 3 minutes of watching, it will reset itself to where it finished fast forwarding. Also, fast forwarding only works if the recording is playing for some reason |
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This is also an issue with the Amazon Firestick 4K with both Evo and libVLC. |
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Still having the issue, can anyone else confirm? |
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i only have this problem with some media being converted. |
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I still have the issue on any media that uses MKV and MP4, I don't have any media in a different format as far as I know. |
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I have the same issue when casting from the jellyfin app to the TVs builtin chromecast device. However for me the timestamp just starts counting from 00:00, but the movie is not shown, there is just a still frame from the location I wanted to seek to, and then everything hangs. |
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Just piping in to note that I'm also having this issue with my new Fire TV 4k stick on live tv (w/ hdhomerun connect 4k). You can pause/resume, but trying to rewind/fast-forward just jumps it to live, regardless of how long you wait after pausing. My player is just set to auto (the default on new app install). I've confirmed that rewind/fast-forward does work on the web client, so it just seems to be the android app. |
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Also having this issue myself. Just installed jellyfin on my computer and set streaming into my samsung TV directly by network. The video starts playing normally but If I attempt to fast forward (or go to minute X), it goes back to the start again. If I open the video directly on jellyfin web service (instead of transmiting to TV), i can go forward and back properly |
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I have the same issue. For my understanding, the method that will push forward is ignoring the current timestamp. So if you hold the FF button for a few seconds, it'll fast forward the amount you hold, but instead of pushing forward from the current timestamp, it's always starting from the 0sec. So I would say that the function should get the current timestamp + FF X seconds., instead of the beginning of the media + FF X seconds. Not sure if that helps with the fix, if someone could point me to the method triggered by the FF button, I can give it a go to fix it. |
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@leocaseiro the code is in this package: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv/tree/master/app/src/main/java/org/jellyfin/androidtv/ui/playback The code is kinda messy so finding the exact location that triggers this issue will be quite the adventure 😉 |
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I have this same bug on my FireTvStick, can't fast forward at all it just resets back to 00s. |
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I have this bug with DLNA & LG TV. And it kills all the usability of Jellyfin + DLNA. |
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unable to scrub on googletv with this media: media infoGeneral Complete name : video.mkv Format : Matroska Format version : Version 4 File size : 12.4 GiB Duration : 2 h 50 min Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 10.4 Mb/s Movie name : video Encoded date : UTC 2019-10-30 12:29:45 Writing application : mkvmerge v38.0.0 ('The Silent Type') 64-bit Writing library : libebml v1.3.9 + libmatroska v1.5.2 Cover : Yes Attachments : cover_land.jpg / small_cover.jpg / small_cover_land.jpg / cover.jpgVideo Audio Text #1 Text #2 Menu |
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This is the PR when the logic changed #581 (comment) Firestick v1, latest jellyfin-app Master. Exoplayer,
libVLC,
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As @ManuLinares pointed in the PR, it seems that is only breaking transcoded media. That's the reason some media can Fast Forward, some cannot. That's a good discovery to help with the solution. I'm not really a Java dev, but I'll try to set up a dev environment to have a look. But I would appreciate some help 😄 |
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Please don’t close this issue. I saw a PR, but not sure if fixed and it
wasn’t released yet
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Any update on this? |
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I’m pretty sure the latest version fixed that. I no longer have this issue.
At least on the files I use to have a problem with.
I’m now on Google TV, which is v10 of Android TV, though.
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I dont have this problem after the recent update that contained the new UI. |
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I'll check later, but I think it is fixed. Of course you can't seek "smoothly" transcoded media, but still, at least you can now. |
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I am running Jellyfin for Android TV v0.12.3. On some media, attempting to seek will have a popup pill that says "Unable to seek", and on other media it sometimes seeks, but a lot of the time restarts at the beginning which is the main reason I haven't ditched Plex yet. I'm using Jellyfin for Android TV on an Nvidia Shield, and it looks like the app is up to date. I am using auto for the media player selection. |
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As of latest commit this has been, finally fixed. Thanks to @mueslimak3r |
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Closing as fixed, please let us know if you're still experiencing this issue. |
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Hey guys just wanted to report, I'm having this same issue. I'm running Android TV on a 4K TCL TV. I'm using the libVLC player, the movie direct plays, but any fast forwarding resets it to the beginning. Exosphere causes the video to transcode, so I'm not using that, I'm trying to figure out how to avoid 4K -> 4K transcoding. I have a Ryzen 7 1700, 16 GB ram, etc. If you guys need any more information, like logs I can supply that. |
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If this is of any help, I found that the issue for me was caused by jellyfin/jellyfin#7355. Since Jellyfin was unable to obtain information through ffprobe, it resorts to transcoding. After I fixed the numbering of chapters within the MKV files, Jellyfin was able to simply play the files directly with no transcoding. I wonder though whether the inability of running ffprobe also affects its ability to seek when transcoding? |
App version: jellyfin-androidtv 0.13.2 release Creed:Godfather III |
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I also experienced this issue on Jellyfin v0.16.1 on an Nvidia Shield v9.1.1 with Matroska-contained media. Switching to the libVLC backend (thanks to this thread 💙) seems to have worked around it. Updating the server (before I found this thread) had no effect. Near as I can tell nothing appears in the server logs that explain it. Are we still interested in logcat output? |
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Still experiencing this issue. |
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Also still having this issue on 4k direct play hevc movie.
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I have this issue on my LG TV connecting to Jellyfin server on the LAN - no seeking, no rewind, no fast-forward on .mkv files. mp4's appear to work. |
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After the new update of the Android TV client 0.11 i am unable to fast forward or backwards with any media including direct play.
Trying to fast forward or backwards results in the media starting all over from the beginning
This is on NVIDIA SHIELD TV 2019 fully updated to Android TV 9.0
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