Video problems (including Roku/Chromecast/etc)? Get in here!

I am having the same problem. Since yesterday I am no longer able to start any video, or download, on my LG tv browser.

So not technically a bug but have they tested the website on iOS 13.1 beta for iPad and does it fix the really bad streaming for premium shows as it just skips for me on 12.4.1 still.

On older videos there are moments where a tiny bit of audio will replay some way into the video but the video itself keeps going and thus it becomes out of sync, both the repeated bit of audio and it becoming out of sync is really annoying.

Have not noticed this watching newer videos but been watching a lot of old stuff and it happens in videos of all lengths from at least 2010 and back, I'm also on Firefox if that makes any difference.

@cdr_jameson:

Same issue for me on Samsung tv browser. Can't select the play button on any videos. Also carousel no longer working, scroll buttons are invisible.

@rorie:

This started happening 2 weeks ago. Can't click videos to play on site anymore using LG OLED web browser.

@friskyhat:

I am having this same issue in the browser for my Samsung MU8000. Videos no longer play at all. This has been happening for a few days now.

edit: also Burgle My Bananas Episode 04 404s on every browser I've tried when you try to access it from the "Latest" or "Premium" video menus. Series carousel works fine though.

Having issue when trying to watch on IPads too. Won’t let me play video or download. Started happening as of last Friday?

Hey, I apologize for the smart TV issues - I'm not aware of anything changing in the recent past that would affect them but I'll file a ticket and see if Will can look into it. I'll also bring the iPad issues back up with him - sorry for the trouble. He's out of the office for the rest of the week, though, so it might take a bit of time to get these sorted.

Stop apologizing bb

luv u

For the last few months on a variety of iOS devices every premium stream has had buffering/repeating issues. I know I’m not the first to mention it. Thought it would have been taken care of by now.

Tested devices: iPhone X, iPad Pro 1st Gen, iPad Pro 3rd gen, AppleTV 4K.

Every 1-2 minutes the stream will skip backward and repeat several seconds. Makes premium streams almost unwatchable.

Just chiming in with my own history of watching livestreams on iOS being a nightmare. For at least the past year, livestreams regularly hitch up and rewind back to an arbitrary point over and over, across several models of iPhone and iPad. Here are two examples from tonight’s UPF:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/220322452981415936/627280341291368469/video0.mp4

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/220322452981415936/627277870653374464/RPReplay_Final1569624503.mov

At this point, I’ve just accepted that I can’t watch livestreams despite being premium, and just download them afterwards instead. It’d be really cool if we got word on investigation into this bug so that could change!

Given that the livestream issue spans multiple Apple devices and OS versions I wouldn't be surprised if the HLS stream being served falls outside of Apple's spec in some fashion. I was debugging some HLS stuff on Bomb Cyclone anyway, so out of curiosity I ran today's UPF stream through Apple's Media Stream Validator which spit out a bunch of errors and warnings. Most of these seem to be pretty minor and likely not the source of the issue but it might be worth having someone run a stream through the tool just in case it turns up anything useful.

I'm having the same problem watching live streams on iOS. I've tried watching on my Apple TV, iPhone, & iPad and they all start skipping backwards 5 seconds. It skips using a Giant Bomb app and going directly to giantbomb.com using Safari. This has been going on for a few months now. I was hoping iOS 13 would fix this, but it's still the same. Instead of watching live I just wait for the archives to go up, but I do miss watch UPF live.

I'm running into the same issue that a few have mentioned in this thread. All Live streams rewinding about 5 seconds backward, then resuming from that place, and it's happening very frequently over the course of a live stream. This is happening with iPhone on safari and chrome as well as bomb cyclone app, iPad on safari, and apple tv with the giantbomb app, as well as apple tv with airplay. Switching video quality doesn't improve the issue. Please help! Very annoying issue :(

Ok, so this isn’t just me. I’m on the latest iPad Pro. Really sucks that I can’t watch live and stay on pace with chat.

Like the last few posts, I’ve been having trouble with live streams on my Apple TV & other iOS devices. Thought it was my connection but other things stream smoothly. Thinking about holding off renewing premium until this is resolved. Why be premium when all the videos I want to watch can’t be consumed?

Yeah Im in the iOs boat as well, iphone X, imac and apple tv 4k and regular, all have the same issue, and this has been over half a year now, considering ending my premium if nothing happens by the end of the year.

1. When I click on play on any video on the site, the audio will start playing, but the video won't. If I click again both the audio and video will play, over the original audio so it's playing two audio tracks at once.

2. Using Chrome and incognito and different quality options don't seem to make much of a difference. It seems to coincide with using Youtube as the player, I never had problems with video playback when the site was using a proprietary video player.

Video Player on the Giantbomb app on my XB1 works fine and so do livestreams on both chrome and XB1. I don't know why archived videos seem to be exclusively the problem.

Just tried to watch this video with my Chromecast 2: https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/super-nintendo-64-super-stream/2970-19482

It started stuttering after a short bit, tried it twice.

@forcen: I see that myself. We're looking into it. Thanks for your patience.

Starting this morning, immediately after the Doraemon Story of Seasons Quick Look went up, I've been getting 403 errors trying to watch on Video Buddy (iOS) which is linked using the boxee code method. I can't watch or download the videos but everything else in the app still works like searching and such. Hopefully not a Video Buddy killing problem as it's my absolute favorite way to watch videos. For now I can hit the "open on the site" option and watch them there then go back and Mark As Watched in the app.

I tried resetting the app, relinking the account, changing my password and relinking. A lot of the usual suspects. Thanks for any help because I know VB isn't an official app or anything.

Yes, this is awful and makes casting unusable for me. Even if you try to cast, pause, and then lower the volume, when you play again it will be back at 100. It's done it the last three time and I can't do it anymore. My neighbors must really hate it. The device I'm casting to is my Vizio P Series 55 2016 if it matters.

EDIT: I guess the solution is to decrease the volume on the video player in your browser before casting but I don't think the video volume should have any bearing on what volume your TV is set to.

Progressive Videos stopped working. HTML5 is working. Tried on 10/11/19 UPF and the most recent Grapes and Wrath.

I always use the Giant Bomb Enthusiast app on my Firestick to watch content on my TV or iPad. Starting this morning, a video I was watching stopped in the middle when watching on my iPad.

I have now tried on 2 different firesticks and the iPad again but videos won't load and I am met with a 403 response code.

Videos work just fine when I played them directly from the browser on my phone or PC.

I'm having the same issues on iOS, all of the apps fail to play videos. This happens on both iPhone and iPad, on Video buddy, bomb cyclone, and gbtv.

Reinstall, relink, nothing works. Website plays fine.

Any ideas?

I started having Chromecast issues yesterday.

Setup
Chromecast 2nd Gen
Windows laptop running Chrome

Description
The videos play fine on my laptop directly. When I choose the cast option it stutters really bad. This happens with all videos and quality settings.

I've tried playing GB content from YouTube on the same browser and casting and it works fine --- It's just the GB site where this happens.

Prior to yesterday this setup worked fine.

The Wwe 2k20 quick looks shows up as a live stream that ended hours ago for me, alternating between four and a half to two hours ago each time.

Update on my Video Buddy post above. About a day later things started working again. Watching videos this morning, similar time of day as last time, the 403 forbidden error has returned. Seemed to coincide with the The Outer Worlds Quick Look going live (similarly to last time the bug happened) and when I try to download videos in the app I get the prerecorded Jeff error message.

@txandrew:

Apps on iOS and FireStick worked for a few days but I am now back to a 403 response error and can't load any videos.

Video buddy app on iOS iPad stopped playing in the middle of Jeff pro skater 3 this morning. After that I get the error message video with Jeff's voice. Unlinked and relinked account to no avail. No videos will play in the app.

My iOS and video buddy errors from above still persist. Same symptoms as bassguygt. Only way I can get videos to play is the web page. At one point, if I waited 24 hours this would fix itself, until it happens again usually around the time a new video goes up early in the AM pacific time. Now it seems to be a more permanent thing?

Same issues as above. Watching videos midstream then will stop as if buffering. Then no videos are available with Jeff’s error message. Waiting 24 hrs does fix it but it happens again. Seems to affect my iOS device only as my fire tablet and tv can play giant bomb videos, albeit from a different app.

Update. It’s happening on my fire devices as well.

Is the Giant Bomb Enthusiast App not reflecting recent videos on Firesticks for anyone else?

Just going to report the same issues with both Video Buddy & GBTV not playing videos.

iPhone x & iPad both with latest version of iOS

Updating my updated posts above. Giving iOS apps 24 hours no longer seems to (temporarily) fix the 403/etc. errors. Nothing has worked for days now other than the site player.

Any new suggestions on what to do with videos not working? It’s been days and at best I get 15 minutes before a video pauses and I can’t watch anything. I’ve waited the 24 hours but once a video starts it happens again. Seems couple of other users are experiencing the same issues.

Add me to the list of people having issues watching videos via apps.

Video Buddy and Video Bomb on Android. Can't play anything, reinstalled and relinked account. Before, I could play a bit of a video before it would stop playing. I can only watch on the site.

Add me as another having issues with videos via apps.

Just tried to watch Brad's SSD video on the Xbox Giant Bomb App and got the Jeff narrated error message. Also tried the Luigi's Mansion 3 QL and got the same error. Went into settings and regenerated and app key from the site and the error persists.

After coming here and looking at some posts here I tried viewing the same Brad video on my Ipad via GB Video Buddy and also got the Jeff error message. Obviously something in the auth chain is borked.

Watching the video through the site works fine.

Apps are all fine now. Must have been a glitch in the matrix.

I’m still getting the error messages on both Video Buddy & GBTV.

I will say that I didn’t have issues yesterday, but when I tried this morning I can’t get anything to play

Was watching Extra Life on an AppleTV at Saturday 11/2 around 1am and went to sleep. In the morning at 8am the LIVE icon is missing at the top and can’t get the feed. I tried restarting the app and the AppleTV

Video Buddy seems better, for me, for the last 24 hours. It even loads up and responds faster than it used to. Thanks for your efforts in this regard Rorie and the Top Men Gang!

Still have problems with GBTV and Video Buddy. The video loads and plays for about 10 minutes and then stops. After that I only get the error message video and I am locked out for 24 hours.

+1 for having problems with apps. Video Buddy and GBTV on the latest iPad iOS.

I had the same problems 2 days ago, it fixed itself yesterday and worked until the first half of today, but after that it suddenly stopped. No error messages, videos just don't load at all.

As for watching videos on the site, regular videos work just fine, but I'm getting Jeff's error message when trying to load premium ones (it was the same when iOS apps were broken for me 2 days ago).

Using an IPad app on old and new version IPad called Giant Bomb video Buddy. Unable to watch or download videos. I have unlinked and relinked my premium account and still unable to watch. App is up to date

Looks like I can watch videos in iPad apps again! Hopefully this time the fix will last.

Edit:
Well, after 30 minutes of watching videos on my iPad, it stopped mid-video again and is working anymore...

Edit 2:
Getting Jeff's error video when trying to watch premium videos too. These also worked earlier today.

My premium video feed (all videos, hd), hasn’t refreshed since Monday - any fix appreciated :)

I'm having issues with GB Video Buddy and GBTV (both iOS) and Video Bomb on Android. Seems like a similar problem to others above - I can sometimes start watching a video but it will stop after ~45 seconds and never continue. Most of the time they just won't even start. Are there any updates on this? Thanks!

As of the last few weeks, videos always run perfectly until about 10 minutes in, where they freeze and become impossible to resume. I’m using Bomb Cyclone on iPhone X. Never had issues with it before. Tried rebooting/reinstalling the app to no avail.

This again but with this video: https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/bloodstained-part-02/2970-19480/premium-video

It stutters for a bit but if you let it stutter for maybe 5 min it sorts itself out? It's weird because I was casting other videos earlier this week without any problems, think it was a nancy drew video.