Emaster Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emaster Posted February 27, 2016 Author Share Posted February 27, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Emaster Posted August 23, 2016 Author Solution Share Posted August 23, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted August 24, 2016 Share Posted August 24, 2016 Wow great info, thanks for the tip! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreeBSD_Lover Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 What version of android? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreeBSD_Lover Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 I hope I got this right Luke. Android Version 5.1.1 Security Patch Level 2017-02-01 Kernel Version 3.10.49-8687782 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 What model Samsung? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreeBSD_Lover Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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