Hi Peeps.

So the issue is that stremio wouldn’t play a movie on my Thomson (onn box clone) media player tonight. I tried different streams, but every single one wouldn’t play.

I then tried it on my android phone and loads of streams worked no problem.
Any idea why this would happen?

Cheers.

  • spy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    I’m experiencing this in the Smart TV at home.

    Both yesterday and today I had to uninstall and install again. I assume clearing cache would work but the Smart TV’s OS is some samsung crap based on Android that I don’t really know what it has or has not, and I can’t find a way to clear cache.

    It does have a “reinstall” option that does something pretty much instantly but I can’t tell what. It’s faster than an installation and it does not clear data. Maybe the “reinstall” clears cache and if it does, clearing cache would not work.

    Meanwhile, on a regular android phone it works with no issues.

    • D_C@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      How very annoying!

      I’m going to install Nuvio in a bit to see if that does the same thing. Maybe that’s an option for you too?

      • spy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        Nope. Part of the good samsung crap is that the app store is kind of non-existent.

        Maybe I can side load apps but if I can I don’t know how, I may have to try that, but if not for side loading, there’s an “applications” menu where I can type apps to search for and it finds Stremio when not installed and I can install that way. There’s no app store that I can find. Searching for Nuvio finds nothing.

        With that in mind I’m not confident I can side load apps easily. And I’m not going to change the os or root or so if there’s a way to do it, it’s not my TV. It’s a 77 inch TV that I don’t really want to risk bricking 😅

        I’m never going to buy a Samsung TV. Lesson learned.

        • D_C@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          The reason I got our streaming box was because I was never going to connect the TV to the internet. Ever.

          Ok. So I installed Nuvio and, at the moment, it plays streaming files that stremio won’t. So it seems like a stremio issue rather than an isp or hardware issue.

          • spy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            Totally agree with you but I’m not in charge here… I wouldn’t either. I put it behind some firewall to try to stop tracking and what not though