AndroidTv update now black screen with av1/opus videos

[esaym153 0]

I see the android TV app was updated a few days ago on my Sony Tv. Not sure of all formats and combos, but for the few files I tried, they were av1 with opus. The audio would transcode (whereas I don't think it did this before the update) and you get a black screen with audio only.

 

The server logs showed:

 

Emby Server version: 4.9.5.0
Operating system: Unix 6.1.0.37
Command Line: /home/programs/opt/emby-server/system/EmbyServer.dll -programdata /home/programs/emby_data -ffdetect /opt/emby-server/bin/ffdetect -ffmpeg /opt/emby-server/bin/ffmpeg -ffprobe /opt/emby-server/bin/ffprobe -restartexitcode 3 -updatepackage emby-server-deb_{version}_amd64.deb

App: AndroidTv 2.1.51g
Family Room TV
User-Agent: Emby/2.1.51g (Linux;Android 12) ExoPlayerLib/2.18.7

 

With the transcode info:

 

14:00:14.879   Metadata:
14:00:14.879     AB_AV1_FFMPEG_ARGS: -c:v libsvtav1 -crf 29.75 -preset 4
14:00:14.880     ENCODER         : Lavf62.15.100
14:00:14.880   Duration: 01:08:49.14, start: -0.007000, bitrate: 1623 kb/s
14:00:14.881   Stream #0:0: Video: av1 (Main), yuv420p10le(tv, progressive), 1920x1036, SAR 1:1 DAR 480:259, Level 8, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn (default)
14:00:14.882     Metadata:
14:00:14.884       DURATION        : 01:08:49.084000000
14:00:14.884   Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: opus, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, Start-Time -0.007s (default)
14:00:14.884     Metadata:
14:00:14.884       title           : English DTS 5.1 chnls 768 kbps
14:00:14.884       ENCODER         : Lavc62.31.100 libopus
14:00:14.885       DURATION        : 01:08:49.137000000
14:00:14.886 Stream mapping:
14:00:14.886   Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)
14:00:14.886   Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (opus (native) -> aac (native))

What exactly was changed in the newest version?

[FrostByte 5548]

Can you also send an AndroidTV app log containing the error to the devs and provide the information requested in the link below

 

7 hours ago, esaym153 said:

 

What exactly was changed in the newest version?

Don't know what version of the app you were on before, but here's the list of changes.

 

[ebr 16531]

Hi.  Please also provide the full ffmpeg log.  Thanks.

[ebr 16531]

Still need that additional info but looks like it could be server-related:

 

[esaym153 0]

1 hour ago, ebr said:

Still need that additional info but looks like it could be server-related:

 

I send logs from the client at 4:26PM EST

I have not touched anything on the server for a month or two so it can't be a server update issue.

Attacked some server logs too.
 

ffmpeg-remux-f74a43bb-304c-4764-8558-96ae882396eb_1.txt embyserver.txt

[ebr 16531]

Okay, the issue is that, while your TV supports AV1 it does not support it inside a TS container which is what is happening now so that we can convert the audio.  The next app update should correct this but you may be better off using the standard app if you have a lot of AV1/Opus.

Thanks.

[esaym153 0]

On 7/26/2026 at 9:40 AM, ebr said:

Okay, the issue is that, while your TV supports AV1 it does not support it inside a TS container which is what is happening now so that we can convert the audio.  The next app update should correct this but you may be better off using the standard app if you have a lot of AV1/Opus.

Thanks.

 

By "standard app" I assume you mean the android app? I didn't know that was an option. I simply installed the "android tv" app since this is android tv. What is the difference? I have been re-encoding most of my stuff into av1+opus lately.

[Luke 42792]

1 hour ago, esaym153 said:

 

By "standard app" I assume you mean the android app? I didn't know that was an option. I simply installed the "android tv" app since this is android tv. What is the difference? I have been re-encoding most of my stuff into av1+opus lately.

Hi.  Can you try searching for our standard android app (Just "Emby" on Amazon and "Emby for Android on Google) on the same device's app store and see how that compares?

Thanks.