Android TV nightly – won't remember last played poition, gets stuck loading SMB shares
Posted: 22 Jan 2025 13:23
My Android TV broke in early December 2024 and was only fixed in early January 2025 – new motherboard. This meant reinstalling everything, including VLC for Android. I was using the nightlies before as well, so I continued with them. And since 9th January, every single version has suffered from the following two problems:
1. The player won't remember the last played file and position. Yes, the "Resume played video" settings is on. But it simply no loner works, even if the TV turns on the screensaver on a paused video.
2. All files I am playing are stored on our computers on the LAN. When I go to "Local network" > [computer name], the browser always hangs on "loading" and nothing happens. The only solution is to press the "Back" button on the remote, then enter the same computer again – it always works the second time, in a split second. The same happens, occasionally, with subfolders, e.g. the "Films" folder.
Both are quite annoying.
My Android TV is Sharp LC-50EQ3EA and it runs Android TV version 11, and it has the latest build available: RTM9_241015.015.
1. The player won't remember the last played file and position. Yes, the "Resume played video" settings is on. But it simply no loner works, even if the TV turns on the screensaver on a paused video.
2. All files I am playing are stored on our computers on the LAN. When I go to "Local network" > [computer name], the browser always hangs on "loading" and nothing happens. The only solution is to press the "Back" button on the remote, then enter the same computer again – it always works the second time, in a split second. The same happens, occasionally, with subfolders, e.g. the "Films" folder.
Both are quite annoying.
My Android TV is Sharp LC-50EQ3EA and it runs Android TV version 11, and it has the latest build available: RTM9_241015.015.