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CCwGTV 4K update to Android 14 broke TV stream playback

gurabli — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 07:39:35 GMT

My CCwGTV 4K received the latest update UTTC.241218.004, now I have Android 14.

This update broke playback of direct live TV stream in all the apps. It looks that all the h.264 FullHD streams are affected. The playback is like slow motion with judder and audio out of sync. All these apps worked perfectly fine before the update. Many users report the same (Reddit).

Source is DVB-C, TS stream from my cable TV provider.

Is this a known problem from Google's side? All the devices still on Android 12 are perfect.

Re: CCwGTV 4K update to Android 14 broke TV stream playback

jonicunha — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:21:20 GMT

Hi,

Same situation with me! Maybe its related to h.264 codec?

Re: CCwGTV 4K update to Android 14 broke TV stream playback

gdeamon — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:34:03 GMT

I have two Chromecast 4.0 4K, one with Android 12, the other 14.
The one with Android 14 has a problem with H.264

Re: CCwGTV 4K update to Android 14 broke TV stream playback

spacetimeC — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:20:30 GMT

Exactly the same problem here with CCwGTV 4k. Source DVB-C live and recordings viewed with Kodi. Was flawless before update.

Re: CCwGTV 4K update to Android 14 broke TV stream playback

Farrael — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:13:31 GMT

I have the same problem, in FHD Channels. The Playback is like slow motion.
I have two Chromecast, one with Android 12 and other with Android 14 and with Android 12 I don't have issues.

Re: CCwGTV 4K update to Android 14 broke TV stream playback

K70 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:52:48 GMT

Same here, DVB-T2 streams are like slow motion after the update.

Re: CCwGTV 4K update to Android 14 broke TV stream playback

MartinBayard — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:53:00 GMT

Same here, tested with different players, display on my Chromecast 4k with Android 14 looks like slow motion, then it jumps forward to the current frame, and repeat the same. On the other hand mu other Chromecast 4k with Android 12 plays all the streams perfectly. Very disappointed by this upgrade, is Google trying to force users to upgrade to their Google Streamer? 😑

Re: CCwGTV 4K update to Android 14 broke TV stream playback

gurabli — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 06:20:25 GMT

Don't think so they are forcing the upgrade this way. Not too much of us are watching DVB streams, I guess.

Still, nobody knows yet what exactly happened.

Re: CCwGTV 4K update to Android 14 broke TV stream playback

Froog — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:06:43 GMT

Widzę że nie jestem sam po aktualizacji wszystkie apk do iptv tv się zacina zwolnione tempo. Co drugi kanał laguje, Google musi coś z tym zrobić o ile wyda jakaś aktualizacje

Re: CCwGTV 4K update to Android 14 broke TV stream playback

joni21 — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:14:48 GMT

Same for me

Re: CCwGTV 4K update to Android 14 broke TV stream playback

GoogleNestTeam — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:25:23 GMT

Hey all,

Thank you for the discussion on this, the team would like to gather some additional info. If you could leave a reply to this comment with the following information, it would be greatly appreciated.

What does your setup for the TV and Chromecast with Google TV look like? How do you have your devices connected, peripherals, etc?
We're interested in how people watch cable TV on their Chromecast with Google TV. Do you have a device that takes your cable TV signal (DVB-C) and sends it over your Wi-Fi so you can watch it on your Chromecast? If yes, what's the brand of that cable-to-Wi-Fi device, and which app do you use for streaming (ie: Kodi)?

Re: CCwGTV 4K update to Android 14 broke TV stream playback

gurabli — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:35:58 GMT

Thanks for looking into this.

My CCwGTV 4K is connected to internet over official Googl's power adapter with LAN, so it is a wired connection to my router. But if I use Wifi it is the same, not related.

For cable TV in my area the DVB-C stream is not encrypted and I have two backends in home network that provide the raw ts stream. One is Tvheadend backend on Linux server with Hauppauge DVB-C stick, and the other is an enigma2 stb with DVB-C and DVB-T(2) tuners.

On CCwGTV I use apps from Play for playback: dream Player TV for Tvheadend and Tivimate. Also VLC can playback the stream. But it doesn't work now after Android 14 update.

It worked perfectly fine until the Android 14 upgrade was installed. On CCwGTV 4K where the update is not yet installed, still on Android 12 version, everything works perfectly.

Re: CCwGTV 4K update to Android 14 broke TV stream playback

jonicunha — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:03:22 GMT

Hi,

My CCwGTV 4K is connected though WiFi and I use tivimate to whatch iptv channels using xstream codes.

Thís issue started after CCwGTV 4k upgraded to Android 14. I have two Google streamers with Google TV (Android 14), and two other devices with Android TV with the same application (tivimate) and they don't have this problem.

For troubleshooting I tried VLC player instead of the tivimate default player but the problem remained.

Note: I have channels that are working properly, I think it only affects h.264 codec.

Thank you!

Re: CCwGTV 4K update to Android 14 broke TV stream playback

gdeamon — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 07:37:10 GMT

I don't know what else to add here, just read, read and read what everyone writes.
TiviMate and the h.264 codec do not work after updating to Android 14 and it is not TiviMate's fault, because on Android 12 it works normally.

Re: CCwGTV 4K update to Android 14 broke TV stream playback

K70 — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 07:57:58 GMT

Chromecast with Google TV connected directly by HDMI to an older TV, that doesnt`t have a DVB-T2 tuner.

A Raspberry Pi with the DVB-T2 module is connected to the antenna, and is in the same LAN. It is running Tvheadend to read the antenna signal, which is then available on the LAN for devices to stream. On the CC I use Kodi or Sparkle apps to watch the htsp stream.

Before the A14 update on CC this was running smoothly. Now the video is like slow motion, and audio sync is horrible on the CC. If I open the same streams on Kodi on Windows, the video is fine. Same with TvhClient on an iPad. Have done factory reset on the CC also.

Re: CCwGTV 4K update to Android 14 broke TV stream playback

Kouseri — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 20:08:13 GMT

I do have the same issue with CCwGTV4K after updating to Android 14. I used to watch Tvheadend DVB-C recordings using Kodi but now stream just stutters, audio is out of sync etc. Impossible to try to watch any recordings at the moment.

Re: CCwGTV 4K update to Android 14 broke TV stream playback

AdamKa — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 22:33:35 GMT

GoogleNestTeam - Stop asking about things that don't matter. It doesn't lead anywhere. I think the programmers working on GTV are 100% aware of the problem. The same problem occurs on other Amlogic devices (ATV14) e.g. Homatics box r 4k plus with an official dongle to watch LiveChannels app, with IPTV it's a bit better but you have to disable frame matching. This problem doesn't occur on Google Streamer. Why? Because it works on a Mediatek processor. That's why we can say that it's an Amlogic bug, maybe it's related to the system kernel. Until now CCwGTV worked on the old 4.9 kernel, after the update the kernel is version 5.15 - the same as with all other Amlogic devices with this problem. I would like to be wrong, but if it's true then it could be a very serious problem that Amlogic hasn't been able to fix for a long time.

Re: CCwGTV 4K update to Android 14 broke TV stream playback

gdeamon — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 09:02:18 GMT

You are absolutely right, I came to the same exact thing. I have several devices, Homatics box r 4k plus android 12 and 5.4.242 kernel, Thomson LEAP-S1 android 12 and 4.9.269 kernel, one Google Chromecast 4.0 4k android 12 and 4.9.269 kernel, no problem, only the other Google Chromecast 4.0 4k android 14 has a problem.

Re: CCwGTV 4K update to Android 14 broke TV stream playback

Grzesiek1 — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 14:04:19 GMT

I have two Chromecast 4.0 4K, one with Android 12, the other 14.
The one with Android 14 has a problem

Re: CCwGTV 4K update to Android 14 broke TV stream playback

waailasif3 — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 07:35:58 GMT

Same issue with tivimate and live IPTV streams on my CCwGTV Android 14.