Black screen on video playback

[Emaster 10]

I cannot play movies on my Asus MeMO Pad HD7 ME173X. Android 4.2.2

 

I just get a black screen but with the sound.

It plays just fine in my smartphone.

 

I attached the tablet emby log.

7a63e9c0-5195-4572-958a-d4cc51de119d.log

[Luke 40064]

As a test, can you go into playback settings and try and set the max bitrate to a low value. i wonder if maybe it's just trying to direct play something that your device can't handle. thanks

[Emaster 10]

It didn't work. I forgot to say (I don't know if it helps) that when I leave the video an image of the video appears just before leaving.

[Emaster 10]

Today I lost some time searching for a solution for this problem and just in case someone steps into the same problem with emby android app video playback (and VLC player too)...

 

The problem: No video, just a black screen except when you change device orientation (landscape to portrait for example), when you exit the playback or when you click settings button, the video appears for a fragment of a second.

Audio and subtitles playing correctly.

Probably this problem only occurs in some devices.with pre kitkat versions.

 

The solution: disable HW overlays in Settings > Developer options (if Developer options don't shows: http://www.androidcentral.com/how-enable-developer-settings-android-42)

 

description of the same problem with this solution (for VLC player) : https://forum.fairphone.com/t/vlc-player-only-shows-black-screen-for-video-playback-on-fp1/19060/7

[Luke 40064]

Wow great info, thanks for the tip!

[FreeBSD_Lover 14]

Today I lost some time searching for a solution for this problem and just in case someone steps into the same problem with emby android app video playback (and VLC player too)...

 

The problem: No video, just a black screen except when you change device orientation (landscape to portrait for example), when you exit the playback or when you click settings button, the video appears for a fragment of a second.

Audio and subtitles playing correctly.

Probably this problem only occurs in some devices.with pre kitkat versions.

 

The solution: disable HW overlays in Settings > Developer options (if Developer options don't shows: http://www.androidcentral.com/how-enable-developer-settings-android-42)

 

description of the same problem with this solution (for VLC player) : https://forum.fairphone.com/t/vlc-player-only-shows-black-screen-for-video-playback-on-fp1/19060/7

 

I have this exact same issue, and "Disable Hardware overlays" does not work on my Samsung Android phone.  Also everytime the phone is rebooted this feature is turned off, meaning hardware overlays are enabled.

 

Are there are other workarounds to this issue?

[Luke 40064]

What version of android?

[FreeBSD_Lover 14]

I hope I got this right Luke.

 

Android Version 5.1.1

Security Patch Level 2017-02-01

Kernel Version 3.10.49-8687782

[Luke 40064]

What model Samsung?

[FreeBSD_Lover 14]

Sorry Luke,  its a Galaxy Grand Prime. And its my corporate phone so I have to live with it.  If its not worthy your time to support something that old then I'm fine with that.  I could swear video was working on it, but I haven't watch any videos in a long time. Just getting back into it now that I have a new FreeBSD hardware server built with lots of CPU and ram, and a brand new high-gain OTA antenna wired to a HDHomeRun tuner. Sweet sweet set up!  After a few more days of burn in I will do my upgrades which includes the current emby server version.

Edited September 22, 2018 by FreeBSD_Lover

[Luke 40064]

Thanks for the info.