I am coming in to say, I too have issue in playback on a smasung smart TV. I am local to my network so the other announcement doesnt apply to me.
heres some info I found. while bashing my head on my keyboard for 3 days.
All my media played fine, 3 days ago. all the sudden things started giving me the “error during playback” screen.
So I started diving into it, reading forums ( this one ) and reddit and others. A GREAT deal of tips are to convert your files. NO THANKS. they worked fine days ago.
So, I went in and changed a few things. Direct stream, Direct file playback IN THE TV APP. no fix.
I changed the level of quality, and if any conversion is happening. ( tried both ways, NO conversion, and some conversion of quality ) no change. still errors.
From more reading it seems that the samsung TV got an update that dropped 5.1 dts surround capability. now my question to someone that may have dived deeper, is this stopping all DTS sources on these tvs? like other platforms 5.1 content doesnt play either? I dont know as I dont have any other sources to test.
this is frustrating, so I changed some things in the settings and would test the file. it would give me the error, I would then try a lower res file, or a lower audio codec file. it would also ERROR.
I WOULD HAVE TO QUIT AND RESTART the app, retry the lower res file and it worked fine.
so be careful when you are debuggin at home. if you get the error it seems whatever the error is gets the player/ server connection stuck. and needs to be reset or restarted to check playback.
hope this gets sorted, cause man… my 4k content is sitting there doing nothing.
**** most if NOT ALL of my content is MKV ***** other file types didnt change it for me
