Issue with Emby Videos Not Playing on Apple TV

[TariqK 6]

I’m not at my computer to take a full log but I have noticed this issue since the last update with the AppleTV playing AV1 videos.

Sometimes the video fails to play entirely, sometimes only the video doesn’t play properly but the audio is fine.

[TariqK 6]

Interesting, but I want to add that I am not using any beta version of iOS or tvOS software in my case.

[Luke 42184]

@TariqK

 

Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. Thanks!

 

[TariqK 6]

On 28/02/2026 at 02:55, Luke said:

@TariqK

 

Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. Thanks!

 

Hi @Luke, Ive attached some logs here.

Also, you will hate me for it but I ran them through ChatGPT and it told me this:

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What the log shows (important bit)

• Playback starts

• Runs for ~0.8 seconds

• Then immediately stops

No transcoding errors, no codec negotiation logs, no ffmpeg output.

That usually means:

The client or plugin failed to initialise playback, not the server choking mid-stream.

The log was taken while trying to play the content via the VitualTV plugin, but it also gives issues when playing the media directly.

Everything was working fine until about a month ago.

 

Emby Server Logs.txt