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TinyCircuits Products => TinyTV & Tiny Video Player => Topic started by: prestontrouble on June 25, 2023, 12:59:36 AM

Title: What makes some videos restart when changing channels and others not?
Post by: prestontrouble on June 25, 2023, 12:59:36 AM

As asked in the subject, what causes some files to restart from the beginning when changing channels vs others "continuing" to play when the channel is changed to a different channel (I think this is TV Mode...)? I've converted a handful of files of various types using the TinyTV converter and only one of my files does the "continuous" playback, identical to how the videos included with the device performed. I really like the continuous playback feature and would like all my videos to do this, but I'm not sure what I need to do to make that happen.

Really liking this gadget, fun little idea with lots of functionality built in!

Title: Re: What makes some videos restart when changing channels and others not?
Post by: Ben Rose on June 27, 2023, 11:26:12 AM

Thanks for your support! The current behavior is supposed to be that all videos work that way. Starting from the beginning could be a fallback when there's something unexpected(to the firmware) in the video file. If some of these files are shorter/smaller and something you can share, could you try uploading some to some file sharing service? We can see if we get the same results here.

Thanks,
Ben

Title: Re: What makes some videos restart when changing channels and others not?
Post by: prestontrouble on June 30, 2023, 01:56:26 AM

I'll see if I can find any samples left. A workaround I found was converting all files in Handbrake to mp4 (no longer supports AVI output, unfortunately) then using the converter to convert again to the proper AVI format. A minor kludge but nothing terrible.