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Thanks for reporting this! Android can be tricky because of the wide variety of hardware, but I wouldn't have expected a Sony TV to run into issues (it works on $15 Android TV dongle).

If you don't mind sharing, is the problem when opening a web page, or video (.mp4)? I use flutter and they're handled by different libraries.

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Webpage. To be honest, I don't even know how to add a video. There is only URL input field available in the admin webUI. I understand that it is early days and alpha quality software, so I didn't want to be nitpicky and report every single annoyance, but this is a major bug. Let me know if I could help with some log collecting or something.

You can try https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/s... (I took this from a Flutter library used by my app). I'm curious to know if your TV can play the video.

I guess that's what separates side projects from "professional" apps :D They can have the same functionalities, but the professional ones are more polished down to the minor details. Mine: copy-paste URL. Theirs: video file upload or integration with Google Drive/Dropbox. Behind the scenes, they both use a URL. But my app will get there!

Just did a test on Samsung Galaxy Tab S10+, Android 15: works perfectly fine here.