Fast Forwarding Issue - patnick44

[patnick44]

I have been having this problem for months now.
Using Google Streamer wired 1GB connection.

[danieljlevine]

I may be having the same problem now that I can record. Skip 30 a bunch of times and screen freezes when I resume playing, audio plays and then app crashes. Moving faster to future also has same result. If I back out before it crashes I usually can resume from there fine.

[patnick44]

Yes, same thing I am doing. When it freezes, I get out of it then start it again and most of time it resumes.
It sucks really bad when it doesn't resume. Have to repeat the process all over again.

[danieljlevine]

More than happy to turn on extra debugging for my HDHomeRun app and leave my HDHR4KFlex id if SD wants to investigate. My guess is they have enough info to reproduce it with their own gear.

[nickk]

What exact model of Google device are you seeing this on?

If you have a link to Amazon or similar that would help.

I am testing here on a Google "Chromecast HD" without issue.

Edit - is it a Google TV Streamer 4K? I think I just reproduced the problem...

[danieljlevine]

Google TV Streamer 4K
System firmware version: UTTK.250729.004
Cast firmware version: 3.72.446070

[danieljlevine]

Crashed it for you at 3:44pm using HDHR Flex 4K device: 10A296FB

[nickk]

This looks to be a bug in the MPEG2 system codec provided by the chipset - it stalls triggering a series of log errors from Android.

I made a change to the app config to block using this codec such that the app switches to software decode of MPEG2 channels. This fixes the stall.

720p and 480i channels do a high quality video codec and look fine.
1080i quality is limited by the CPU/GPU and is not as good as we normally aim for.