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Sephywoot's avatar
Sephywoot
Visitor
15 years ago

Movie Playback Crashing

Hi guys, I am having a problem with Roku playback with many movies where they play for a while and then crash.

The movies are encoded in H264 Baseline profile 3.0 and it's crashing around the same spot but you can fast forward past that mark and it's fine.

Here's an example of the output:
showVideoScreen | msg = | index= 890
(Debuggggg) http://www.bigstar.tv/apis/serverApi?me ... nds=%20890
showVideoScreen | msg = mp4 demux: sample overflow; corrupt file | index= 0
Video status: 0 0
showVideoScreen | msg = The format is not supported or the media is corrupt. | index= -5
Video request failure: -5 0
showVideoScreen | msg = | index= 0
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2 Replies

  • RokuMarkn's avatar
    RokuMarkn
    Visitor
    15 years ago
    The error message indicates that the file is not a valid MPEG4 file. Does it play correctly on a non-Roku player? What tool are you using to encode them? Is it possible to put one of these files on a public server and PM the URL to me?

    --Mark
  • Streamer20's avatar
    Streamer20
    Visitor
    14 years ago
    I had a similar problem. Movies gave me random errors of
    MP4 Demux: sample overflow; corrupt file

    Movie plays fine in browser window, in VLC, only fails in Roku.

    I had the Roku bitrate set to a fixed 3.5MB. I changed the setting to automatic and the problem went away.

    How do you change this?
    On Roku remote, press:
    Home 5 times
    Rewind 3 times
    Fast forward 2 times

    Menu appears- set to automatic.

    Hope that helps.