[OS 12.5] HDHomerun malformed data error
I have a roku premier m/n 3920CA, and just installed the HDHomerun app and get the malformed data error. Only happens on this app. Any fixes yet?
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Hi halifaxsteve,
Welcome to the Roku Community!
We appreciate you for sharing your experience about this. We're here to help. Could you tell us when you observed this behavior occur? Have you tried any troubleshooting and what didn't work?
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Thanks,
Rey
This is HDHomerun's app, created, provided to Roku, and maintained by HDHomerun.
HDHomerun support page: https://www.silicondust.com/support/
From Reddit:
NedSD : SiliconDust employee
The Roku version is basically just a web-based UI that sends everything to the Roku video player. All "apps" on Roku use this Roku video player. Only Roku can update the code for that portion.
Interesting side story on Roku, things are weird right now for Roku. Roku released a new SDK that might open the door to us having our own video player code, and being able to fix things like the DVR playback bug, or possibly having PRIME support, rewind on live TV, and so on. However, Roku then said that this new SDK is only for private use, and they wouldn't accept app submissions that use the new SDK. But that's weird, why go to the trouble of supporting a new SDK if you have no intention of accepting apps that use that SDK? Maybe Roku will accept those apps in the future, but they are waiting to see what developers do with the new SDK? We're really not sure what's going on there. Things could be soooo much better on the Roku, but until Roku (the company) allows it, there's not much we can do. It's a platform mainly made for streaming services, rather than OTA.
Good news, the Fire TV 4K stick should be working better. Within the last week or so, the dev team fixed another issue, so give the app another try. We blacklisted the hardware MPEG-2 decoder in our app, which means the delinterlacing isn't the best for interlaced channels, OTA is watchable now.
Seems some work others don't (2) Roku + HDHomeRun : Roku (reddit.com) Mine doesn't
I have a HDHomerun Quatro and the SD app works equally well/poorly on the multitude of Roku devices I have. The problem is that if there's the slightest glitch or dropout in the RF signal the tuner passes it on and Roku devices can't handle it. Playback stops and I may or may not see the "malformed data error" message. If you see any glitches at all when you watch via another device like a computer then you can bet the Roku is going choke. I've spent a lot of time adjusting my antenna and trying different amplifiers and I've still achieved marginal results at best.
A few weeks ago I got a Tablo TV device to check it out and I have to say that while the Roku app has its share of problems it's still a better choice if using a Roku device to watch live TV is your goal. In addition to it being more reliable as far as not dropping out it also supports pausing and rewinding live TV. Now if they could just add the thumbnails when rewinding live TV I'd be happy.
Same issue here. And it was never this way. What a Pain. If anyone has found a fix, please share.
Hi farmhouse1512,
Greetings from the Roku Community!
We understand you are also having issues with the HDHomeRun app with malformed data error messages, and we appreciate you posting about this. We would be delighted to help you further.
For us to better understand the issue you are experiencing, please provide us with additional information:
- When did the issue occur?
- Have you tried updating your software to the latest version?
- Have you tried removing the app, restarting your system, and adding the app again?
Let us know how it goes, and we will continue to assist you further.
Kind regards,
Eunice
