new version doesn't play what it used to

[groovejumper 8]

My server runs in docker on Unraid, version 4.9.5.0. Android TV version on my Sony A90J.  For years, it's happily played everything I've thrown at it, since the update in the last week or so, not so much. Just a black screen, and the back button on the remote doesn't go back to the Emby home screen, I have to click Home to go back to the TV's home screen, but restarting the app doesn't work (black screen no emby home screen), force stop, clear data, the whole 9 yards, nothing works. After rebooting the TV, I can get back in to the app, but nothing plays.  The Android app works. But I'm not a fan of it, the Android TV app, though older, is a lot more elegant, better UI and UX in almost every way (other than that it doesn't work anymore).  

I can grab and attach server log files if you want, but there's nothing there. No new ffmpeg log, and embyserver only has these entries after hitting play:

2026-07-28 18:55:22.813 Info MediaInfoService-0HNNCFNHC5MDF:00000006: http/1.1 POST http://192.168.50.222:8096/emby/Items/901564/PlaybackInfo?format=json. Source Ip: host5, UserAgent: Dalvik/2.1.0 (Linux; U; Android 12; BRAVIA 4K VH2 Build/STT2.230505.001.S136)
2026-07-28 18:55:22.813 Info MediaInfoService-0HNNCFNHC5MDF:00000006: GetPostedPlaybackInfo request. IsPlayback: true, isInLocalNetwork: True
2026-07-28 18:55:22.817 Info MediaInfoService-0HNNCFNHC5MDF:00000006: User policy for daddy. EnablePlaybackRemuxing: True EnableVideoPlaybackTranscoding: True EnableAudioPlaybackTranscoding: True
2026-07-28 18:55:22.818 Info SessionManager: Setting _lastPlaySessionId for session 81bf8613fb2e54af89cb9fb188dbd55c to d94d4dbfb17f422482b01cb915e92e39
2026-07-28 18:55:22.819 Info MediaInfoService-0HNNCFNHC5MDF:00000006: http/1.1 Response 200 to host5. Time: 6ms. POST http://192.168.50.222:8096/emby/Items/901564/PlaybackInfo?format=json.
2026-07-28 18:55:34.320 Info SessionsService-0HNNCFNHC5MDM:0000000A: http/1.1 POST http://host3/emby/Sessions/Capabilities/Full?X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Microsoft Edge macOS&X-Emby-Device-Id=0a8f4e56-03c2-410b-86a9-f4ce6add3fb6&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.9.5.0&X-Emby-Token=x_secret9_x&X-Emby-Language=en-us&reqformat=json. Source Ip: host4, UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/150.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/150.0.0.0
2026-07-28 18:55:34.320 Info SessionsService-0HNNCFNHC5MDM:0000000A: http/1.1 Response 204 to host4. Time: 0ms. POST http://host3/emby/Sessions/Capabilities/Full?X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Microsoft Edge macOS&X-Emby-Device-Id=0a8f4e56-03c2-410b-86a9-f4ce6add3fb6&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.9.5.0&X-Emby-Token=x_secret9_x&X-Emby-Language=en-us&reqformat=json.
2026-07-28 18:56:10.266 Info SessionsService-0HNNCFNHC5MDN:00000021: http/1.1 POST http://host3/emby/Sessions/Capabilities/Full?X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Microsoft Edge macOS&X-Emby-Device-Id=0a8f4e56-03c2-410b-86a9-f4ce6add3fb6&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.9.5.0&X-Emby-Token=x_secret9_x&X-Emby-Language=en-us&reqformat=json. Source Ip: host4, UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/150.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/150.0.0.0
2026-07-28 18:56:10.266 Info SessionsService-0HNNCFNHC5MDN:00000021: http/1.1 Response 204 to host4. Time: 0ms. POST http://host3/emby/Sessions/Capabilities/Full?X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Microsoft Edge macOS&X-Emby-Device-Id=0a8f4e56-03c2-410b-86a9-f4ce6add3fb6&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.9.5.0&X-Emby-Token=x_secret9_x&X-Emby-Language=en-us&reqformat=json.

Anything I can try to get the Android TV app working again? 

[Luke 42853]

Hi there, please attach the Emby server log from when the problem occurred:

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Thanks!

 

[ebr 16588]

Hi.  Is the video AV1?

There is an update to the app hung up in Google review that would fix that or you could side load it from the beta section out here.

[groovejumper 8]

welp, sorry for the fire drill  I'm not sure how this happened but today all seems good again. 

PS: I love what you guys do, hopefully the Android TV app doesn't go away...

[groovejumper 8]

re-welp...  I was on the road for a week, just got back, and now it's happening again. Server log attached. 

The file I'm attempting to play is not an AV1, it's an MKV container, with a 4k Dolby Vision HEVC, dolby profile 8.1, profile main 10, 24mbps. Audio EAC3 5.1 atmos 768 kbps. I've watched tons of files like this in the past, they've always worked in the past.

embyserver.txt