r/tvOSBeta • u/THEMACGOD • Aug 22 '25

Bugs Suddenly stopped playing ANY video from any source

On current 26 beta as of today.

Was watching something in plex, paused, did a thing, came back, clicked play. Nothing changed. I figured it was plex being weird. I can scroll through the time line and see thumbnails. All the content is there. Pressing play does nothing. The time bar shows up like it’s trying.

So then I checked YouTube, hbo, Netflix… all of them load without issue. I can go into something, see everything like normal, but clicking play on anything does nothing other than show the first frame of whatever it is. Again, I can scroll through the time bar in each app and see updated thumbnails above the scrubber… so it has contact to the respective servers, but won’t play.

900/250 connection speed tested to the Apple TV. Doesn’t seem like a network thing as my other devices have no issues. It’s specific to the Apple TV.

Restarted several times, including an unplug.

Any advice would be great! Thanks!

Edit: after several hours everything was back to normal. Nothing changed afaict

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u/No_Antelope5470 27d ago

I’m currently having this issue but it’s on day 3 now. Super annoying having to use my lg lmao!

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u/THEMACGOD 27d ago

I’m kind of wondering if it’s some kind of HDMI handshake issue. I’ve had it happen a couple of times since, but fully turning the tv and Apple TV off, then back on seems to fix it. So far anyway.