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Since the last week or so, I’ve been unable to get the YouTube app to play audio via any AirPlay device connected to my Apple TV.
I get about a split second of sound, then nothing. Every other app works fine, and YouTube works fine via the TV’s HDMI.
Anyone else having similar issues, or know the cause/fix?
Cheers.
Apple TV 4K, tvOS 14
2021 and problem still exists.
Im an ios developer so I’ve debugged some things.
Devices:
Apple TV non-4K release then beta TvOS
Apple TV 4K latest beta
Receivers:
Boston Acoustics legacy AirPlay speaker
Same Boston speaker in Bluetooth mode
Apple Legacy Airport express
HomePod
AirPods
Any combination with an AirPlay v1 device, the audio plays for a blip and stops.
That is to say, the HomePod and AirPods and Bluetooth works fine but the older third-party speaker an airport express receiver exhibit this audio glitch.
I’ve reinstalled the YouTube app and reset all data to no avail.
Only the YouTube app is effected.
Hulu, Netflix, Plex, CuriosityStream, Spotify all tested fine.
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it’s my conclusion this is 100% YouTube code. That makes absolutely no sense to me because AirPlay is an operating system level feature. Yes, an app can configure certain options to be available or not such as picture and picture support, if airplay it allowed at all for videos etc. but beyond that configuration stage, audio buffers are just sent to coreaudio if they’re using their own code for decompression, or if they’re using the Apple video AVPlayer apis the audio is handled automagically.
If they’re serving H264 or H265 they absolutely should just use AV player. It allows completely custom controls and more, there’s no reason to write your own decoder/demuxer But with Google I wouldn’t be surprised if they insist on doing everything themselves.
I’ve written a lot of core audio Code for tvOS iOS and Mac including compatibility layers for the Xamarian and react native. I am absolutely baffled how you can actually break this in an app specifically in such an odd way but nothing with Google and iOS can surprise me anymore.
I’m almost impressed on how badly this is broken. Almost as impressed by the fact they completely are ignoring it for months now.
you know what does work all day enough though, AirPlay from iPhone YouTube video to a tvOS device but the audio to an AirPlay v1 is perfectly fine, but annoyingly laggy 🤦♂️
And it stopped... :-(
Exact same here, I stream audio from Apple TV 2 to my Yamaha Hi-Fi, all apps work fine, YouTube goes mute after half a second
It is not just technical issue but something like “too big to listen tiny voice” GAFA issue?
My bet, both with a dash of Google YouTube Competes with Apple TV, Apple TV+ and Apple Music
Same problem here.
Only Youtube has this problem while other apps are fine.
Yes I have just the same problem. Other audio works fine, and I can Airplay YouTube to devices from my iPad but not from Apple TV.
No idea why, but selecting the Airplay speaker using his method works while all other methods do not.
I've tried on 3 different Apple TV 4 and all with the same result and, like you. I've no idea why.
My bet is that it's based on how much Apple and Google dislike each other.
Glad it helped!
i isolate the problem. Youtube tvos seems only work with airplay2 enabled device now
That is correct! Good to know. But this is just since recently. 2,3 m ago it did not play more than couple of seconds anywhere.
I have the same issue.
Same problem here, using Airplay via ethernet connection via AppleTV 14K and TvOs 14.4 beta.
It seems that it is an YouTube issue. Their AppleTV YouTube application has not been updated since Sep/20.
Maybe it’s some kind of tracking traffic thing...
Hoi Everyone,
Same problem here, only 1 second of sound trough airplay. Apple please help us. Our lives aren't complete since this bug in tvOS14.
Paul
What's funny is that Youtube Kid is perfectly working on Airplay V1 on TVOS14.4
Apple TV, AirPlay and YouTube - no audio
