Comedy Central Streaming Issues

[mwunder]

Don't know if anyone has mentioned or seen this so I will throw this out there.

The other night I wanted to watch some Reno 911 and SouthPark. First I did Reno 911 and it started to stream. It would play like 2 minutes worth and then go black like it was going to a commercial. It would stay black. When I would bring up the control interface, it would show the video progressing on the time line but it would stay black. I let it play for a bit...maybe 2 or so minutes, and it would stay black. It would do this on any of the Reno 911.

SouthPark was the same, but when I would go to recents on my main menu it would continue where it went black and I could watch it. Reno 911 would always start over.

I also noted that sometimes the clarity of the picture would change and I would think that was some bandwidth adjustment of the streaming pipe, i.e. it would pixelate more or less depending on how fast of a connection it had.

I did not try any other Comedy Central streams.

I noted that Hulu doesn't do this...they maybe use a different type of player? I still get a bit of stuttering though.

Anyways, wondering if other ATV users noted that and if anyone knew of a fix or reason why.

FYI...Running ATV on a wired network with Comcast extra high speed subscription...supposed to give me 16+ mb/s download.

Thanks

[wyopistachio]

same exact problem earlier on linux playing "futurama" on comedy central. Blank screen with time advancing, at what I assume is a commercial, but nothing on screen. Let it go for a few minutes, but nothing.

[agentlame]

+1 confirmed...

after about five minutes of playing the latest south park, it just started over.

[mwunder]

@agentlame

Never thought about asking this...should confirmed bugs be reported in the bugs section or do these items get picked by the development team in these forums?

Thanks.

[RobertBasil]

+1 Having the same problem watching SouthPark on my Mac Mini have not tested it on my ATV yet, but I'm sure it will be the same.

[agentlame]

@agentlame

Never thought about asking this...should confirmed bugs be reported in the bugs section or do these items get picked by the development team in these forums?

Thanks.

i just do it to help the dev team... just so they don't waist time confirming/asking question. they can just add it to trac.

sometimes i will also provide more detail, if the initial report is lacking, or i can provide a possible reason.

while i don't feel i carry more weight, i like to think the devs know they can trust me when i say i've confirmed it.

but, yeah... more conformation/description/details could never hurt. i have yet to hear a developer say a bug report is too informative. :)

[Daedelus6]

Ditto - on Ubuntu Hardy. No problem with Daily Show, but the Pandemic episode of South Park dies after the opening commercial (goes to black). The commercial doesn't play correctly either, I get sound but no video.

[marcel]

this is just one episode of southpark that is causing the problem...correct?

[hi5enigma]

this is just one episode of southpark that is causing the problem...correct?

hi marcel - i have had this described problem with all comedy central shows that i have tried, including futurama, dr katz, and reno911.

[usaplanb]

I had the exact same problem as Daedelus6 on my Apple TV. I had the problem with Pandemic Part II and the most recent one (the high school musical spoof episode). A couple other episodes worked fine though (including Pandemic Part I). This was after I installed Boxee this afternoon, after updating the ATV to 2.2.

[askelton]

Do Comedy Central episodes get routed through your server? I appear to be able to watch full episodes of SouthPark here in the UK, something I can't do on their site.