No video on TCL tablet

The live TV menu screen works fine. When I select a show to watch the screen goes black but I hear the audio.

I saw some posts about Amazon fire tablets having the same issue from 2023 but did not see a fix for this.

I just got my 4th Gen tablo set up today. It works great on my phone and TCL Roku TV. It does not work on my tablet as ^ mentioned above.

I also have an issue with a Roku express 3960 connected to an older big screen and found a post on here indicating that’s been an issue for some time that is hopefully being worked on?

Thanks in advance if any one can help me with either issue.

The tablet won’t play both OTA or FAST channels. OTA are MPEG2(h.262) and FAST channels are h.264.

And what does the TCL tablet’s manual say for supported video.

Something like

Video supported formats:
H.263, H.264 AVC, H.265 HEVC, MPEG-4 SP, VP8,
VP9

1 Like

It will not play either Ota or fast. I assume fast are the additional streaming channels not from my antenna.

Copied this from the online manual for my TCL nxtpaper 11 tablet.

Video Playing Formats
H.263, H.264 AVC, H.265 HEVC, MPEG-4 SP, VP8, VP9

It’s OS is android 13.
Video card is an powerVR GE8320

I found a work around for both my issues. I’d prefer a fix, but…

I can watch tablo TV on my phone and mirror the screen to either my tablet or my roku express and it works great.

My tablet has a second screen option I had to turn on to accept the mirror from my phone.

I can still interact with the menu or pause and rewind the playback by touching my tablet screen so that’s cool.

Is there a way to install mpeg2 codecs to my tablet?

You would have to ask TCL about MPEG2. And tablo would have to tell why you can’t play FAST channels.

I’ve never understood why devices don’t support MPEG2. It’s an older and simpler compression, and any royalties couldn’t be that expensive, if there are any at all.

1 Like

It does cost money. Money for something never really designed (historically) to go “over the net”.

There’s a reason why browsers don’t support it by default. If they did, likely you would see MPEG2 everywhere.