# Live TV = Buffer city or failed playback

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/live-tv-buffer-city-or-failed-playback/292330>\
**Category:** Player Betas\
**Tags:** android-tv-beta\
**Created:** [August 5, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/live-tv-buffer-city-or-failed-playback/292330 "2018-08-05T14:30:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![MediaHorder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/mediahorder/32/160753_2.png) [@MediaHorder](https://forums.plex.tv/u/MediaHorder)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/live-tv-buffer-city-or-failed-playback/292330/1 "2018-08-05T14:30:34Z")

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Seeing this in my playback logs. Latest android TV beta. Using telly (iptv proxy)

It either won’t tune a channel at all / quit the stream after a couple seconds / or buffer like crazy.

````auto
08-05 15:24:04.428 w: [LiveTV] Error or unexpected result calling PMS /tune endpoint.
08-05 15:24:04.451 i: Showing toast: An error has occurred, please try again later
08-05 15:24:07.683 i: [FocusService] App focus lost.
08-05 15:24:08.611 i: [AudioManagerCapabilitiesSource] Device removed (SHIELD Android TV, 13)
08-05 15:24:08.611 i: [AudioCapabilitiesSource] Reporting capabilities changed
08-05 15:24:09.436 i: [HdmiCaps] Capabilties changed (AudioCapabilities[maxChannelCount=2, supportedEncodings=[2]])
08-05 15:24:09.436 i: [AudioCapabilitiesSource] Reporting capabilities changed
08-05 15:24:09.436 i: [AudioManagerCapabilitiesSource] Device removed (SHIELD Android TV, 9)
08-05 15:24:09.436 i: [AudioCapabilitiesSource] Reporting capabilities changed
08-05 15:24:31.501 i: [UpdateChannelsJob] Syncing programs for channel My Newscast (id=20)
08-05 15:24:31.517 i: Fetching [method:GET] https://services.provider.plex.tv:443/home/hubs?X-Plex-Client-Identifier=a7ab576ba2af8ce1-com-plexapp-android&X-Plex-Token=...b1aL
08-05 15:24:31.521 i: [MediaProviderContentSource] Not able to find media provider from server as provider id is not present
08-05 15:24:47.335 i: [pms] /192.168.1.177:50775 - GET /loggin
08-05 15:24:47.496 i: [pms] /192.168.1.177:50776 - GET /favicon.ico
08-05 15:24:49.500 i: [pms] /192.168.1.177:50779 - GET /logging
08-05 15:25:31.589 i: [UpdateChannelsJob] Syncing programs for channel My Newscast (id=20)
08-05 15:25:31.596 i: Fetching [method:GET] https://services.provider.plex.tv:443/home/hubs?X-Plex-Client-Identifier=a7ab576ba2af8ce1-com-plexapp-android&X-Plex-Token=...b1aL
08-05 15:25:31.598 i: [MediaProviderContentSource] Not able to find media provider from server as provider id is not present
08-05 15:26:23.984 i: [pms] /192.168.1.177:50786 - GET /logging```
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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/live-tv-buffer-city-or-failed-playback/292330/2 "2018-11-03T14:30:37Z")

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