SmartTwitchTV randomly skips frames which sometimes leads lags

[towlie]

Describe the bug SmartTwitchTV randomly skips frames and sometimes (not always) you can also see the buffering circle for a few milliseconds.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Open a stream
2. Watch a stream until you see skipped frames or laggs

Expected behavior The expected behavior is: no skipped frames or laggs while watching a stream.

Screenshots

Stream start:

After 15 min of watching stream without doing anything (lowest latency mode):

Without low latency mode: After 20 min of watching without doing anything

Device: Latest SmartTwitchTV Version Chromecast with Google TV Android 10 latest Firmware and the previous one

Additional context I'm using a 100Mbit connection I tried to disable low latency mode Accessibility Service is disabled (was enabled once)

[fgl27]

50 frames in 20 min or in 72000 played frames is an issue for you?

Skipped frames can came from a minor device lag, a out of sync audio and video an internet hiccup.

Doesn't matter how good/fast yours internet is you can't control yours isp connection to a random twitch server.

That device is a low end device, 50 frames lost on that window of time on a low end device isn't a issue for me or something that I see as an app problem.

[towlie]

The issue is more that the stream starts to hang randomly for a short moment. The skipped frames are just the indicator. The reason why I think this is an app issue is because I never noticed those on other streaming apps. ( even on the original Twitch app ) The connection to the twitch server shouldn't be the issue because it also happens with a 15s buffer (see picture 3) which never gets empty.

So you think this could be related to my device? Then I will try to figure out what could be the cause. I guess I can live with those small lags. I just thought it's worth a report. Thanks for the app!

[fgl27]

You clear have a overlay on the screen to show up/down speeds, isn't that a Accessibility Service?

Accessibility Service will cause a lot of lag, I would start disabling that overlay.

If you can't share a way to reproduce the problem I can't help, on all of my devices that doesn't happens, maybe is a very specific way to reproduce.

Maybe a factory reset solves, Android devices are know to have random odd bugs, that get clean after a factory reset.

[towlie]

The overlay is a network monitor which I disabled after reporting the issue. (It works without Accessibility Service and only needs draw permissions) At first I though it helped but it did not. I also saw that those drops/lags happen on VODs.

I think I will try to reset the whole device. I remember reading something about lags on corresponding chromecast subreddits a while ago.