Recovering from playback error | unecessary transcoding into wrong dir

[Luke 42078]

4 minutes ago, caffeineshock said:

wait 

i think we talk about 2 different things. the app that works is the regular android one, the other thats broken is for android tv.

or do i missunderstand something

 

The regular android app fully supports tv devices and has a layout that is made for TV, when used on a TV device.

[caffeineshock 18]

yeah the one thats made for andoid tv looks better  

but still. whats the issue 

[Luke 42078]

5 minutes ago, caffeineshock said:

yeah the one thats made for andoid tv looks better  

but still. whats the issue 

Why do you think it looks better?

[caffeineshock 18]

its my subjective opinion. difficult to describe

its not the topic anyways. 

[ebr 16177]

1 hour ago, caffeineshock said:

im really not sure who decodes the stream but i think its the tv (app runs on nvidia shield, bitstreams (i guess) to tv via hdmi 2.1 which then passes it to the avr which does not matter since the shield does not know of its existence ^^)

How is the AVR connected to the TV?

It sounds like you can achieve the same performance from the TV app as the standard one by selecting "Mix down to stereo" in the audio settings in the app. 

[caffeineshock 18]

11 minutes ago, ebr said:

How is the AVR connected to the TV?

It sounds like you can achieve the same performance from the TV app as the standard one by selecting "Mix down to stereo" in the audio settings in the app. 

via toslink but it does not matter. its a 5.1 setup so no need to downmix. 

[ebr 16177]

7 minutes ago, caffeineshock said:

its a 5.1 setup so no need to downmix. 

My point is I think that is what is happening in the other app - you just don't realize it.

[caffeineshock 18]

40 minutes ago, ebr said:

My point is I think that is what is happening in the other app - you just don't realize it.

the emby for android tv app that i freshly installed? that always worked and stoped now? 

[Luke 42078]

If you're happy continuing with the standard app then I would just continue to use that. We are working on getting it into the store for TV devices. Thanks.

[caffeineshock 18]

9 hours ago, Luke said:

If you're happy continuing with the standard app then I would just continue to use that. We are working on getting it into the store for TV devices. Thanks.

Ah alright. Yeah I will continue using the "default" app. 

@offtopic why does the android TV app exist in the first place?

[ebr 16177]

7 hours ago, caffeineshock said:

@offtopic why does the android TV app exist in the first place?

Because 8 years ago when we first implemented these apps, Android TV was a brand new environment with a completely different development paradigm from the mobile platform.  We are now trying to unify since technology has caught up to where we don't have to have two separate apps.

[caffeineshock 18]

21 hours ago, ebr said:

Because 8 years ago when we first implemented these apps, Android TV was a brand new environment with a completely different development paradigm from the mobile platform.  We are now trying to unify since technology has caught up to where we don't have to have two separate apps.

so youre basically saying that its fine to use the "regular" app for android since its developed for both but the history of android tv forced you to create the second one. and the android-tv app will disappear or become one with the "regular" android app?

if so, then there is no point on using the "emby for android tv" and i (and probably everyone else) could just use the "regular" app with no drawbacks (except, you have to manually update it since its not in the tv-app-store)

right? if so, then i think the topic can be closed since i should not care about the android tv version of emby

[GrimReaper 4740]

2 minutes ago, caffeineshock said:

and the android-tv app will disappear or become one with the "regular" android app?

Eventually, yes. 

2 minutes ago, caffeineshock said:

if so, then there is no point on using the "emby for android tv" and i (and probably everyone else) could just use the "regular" app with no drawbacks (except, you have to manually update it since its not in the tv-app-store)

Devs are working on getting standard Android app into TV app store as well. 

3 minutes ago, caffeineshock said:

right? if so, then i think the topic can be closed since i should not care about the android tv version of emby

Here's a long topic related (when I looked at the number of pages, can hardly think of more than a few topics ever being longer):

 

[caffeineshock 18]

cool. then the topic belongs to "android tv" rather than windows and my problem is solved by not using the android tv app

thx everyone