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getting a playback error,media error code(-5)on my firefox app for my roku when I try beaming movies to my TV !!!

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  • Last reply by 11roger22

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Tried a couple movie sites and still getting the same error code

Tried a couple movie sites and still getting the same error code

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In order to further investigate we need an example url and steps taken to reproduce this please.

Please also report back the results of the mentioned troubleshooting steps below:

Some things to consider:

  • is the media type supported?
  • is it a local file? [1022091?]
  • Can you please profile an example url where this is happening so we can help test it too :-?

Modified by guigs

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Went on a site called vumoo to watch a high def movie,found the TV icon and beamed it to my roku 3,it started to load but got a playback error...media error: the media format is unknown or unsupported code:(5) about quarter way into loading the movie !!!!

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