Blog

Why TV streaming behaves the way it does. These are the explanations we could not find written down anywhere, mostly learned from building players for television hardware. If you want step-by-step setup instead, that lives in the guides.

Diagnostics

9 min read

Why Streams Buffer — and How to Tell Whose Fault It Is

Buffering is a symptom, not a cause. A practical method to work out whether the problem is your internet, your device, your Wi-Fi or your provider — in about five minutes, without guessing.

Under the hood

10 min read

Why a Channel Plays on Your Phone but Not on Your TV

The same playlist, the same app, the same network — and one channel works on your phone and shows a black screen on the television. The reason is almost always the codec, and which decoder is baked into the TV.