I really need to abandon Roku and move to Android TV.
Any particular reason you feel this way? We’re always looking for feedback to address and prioritize issues.
Roku support posting???
I’m one of the programmers on the Roku client. I’ve found I get the absolute best user feedback by simply asking people directly.
For me it is that things I am watching suddenly jump ahead large chunks. If I exit the app and reenter, it goes back to the right place. I have both a roku and tivo stick. This only happens on roku.
For me it is that things I am watching suddenly jump ahead large chunks
Just to ensure I’m understanding. You’re watching a video and during playback it jumps forward in time?
Only the video you see. The time marker doesn’t jump.
I’ve never heard of such an issue. My mind first goes to is you server hardware beefy enough to serve what you’re watching, but more info would be needed.
I’d suggest posting this to the Troubleshooting forum. There are tons of great peeps over there who can help diagnose all kinds of issues and get them sorted out.
I bought a android tv device (NVIDIA shield) and just assumed it was open source like android, turns out it’s not and they force ads on the home screen, if you jump though a ton of hoops to roll back some updates, you can turn them off, but it will re-enable them after a while. does not feel like a device I own. Even NVIDIA cannot turn off the google ads on the NVIDIA shield. you can add other launchers but they don’t make it easy and they regularly get removed as the default launcher.
At this point I’m just considering just making a mini PC with linux https://plasma-bigscreen.org/ that will stay connected to my TV. OSMC is another option; however, it does not work well with DRMed content, so I gave up on that as well; even though it’s an awesome project. Some android TV boxes are compatible with Lineage OS so that might be another option.
I swaped to Flauncher on my Shield as the Launcher. Need a few “do once” tricks to get there to/allow it though.
I’ve been using flauncher for a long time and have never had it revert. I had to do some adb commands to set it as default, but was pretty simple to do. https://gitlab.com/flauncher/flauncher#:~:text=FLauncher is an open-source,on Chromecast with Google TV
Same. Love Flauncher.
What we need is Jellyfin TV. I think that would be so cool
I just wish they fixed the subtitles, then I would actually use it. In most situations It’s totally unreadable unless you turn on the black background, which is ugly. How hard can proper shadowing be? Everyone else does do it correctly.
Interestingly I don’t have a problem with how subtitles look, but the fact they are always on by default is my biggest headache!
Easy user setting, set to disabled and there you go.
Take few seconds to find, then stays that way forever.
So I have it set to disabled within the user, and as an overall setting, but they still show as default. I’m not sure why
Edit: looked through the settings again and realised I didn’t have them set to “none” they were set to “default”. Switched that setting and all working correctly now.
Thanks for helping me solve a year long problem!
