Youtube TV on Mi Box S keeps crashing the box, anyone else getting this?

by pawood47

Every few weeks, I'll play a video on Youtube that consistently locks up the whole box in a specific place. Maybe it's some bug in the encoding, because even when I switch to Casting the video from my phone, it breaks the stream at these points.

I'll be playing a video, and then suddenly I get a black screen, and a few seconds later an infinite bootloader loop begins. I have to power cycle the box to get it out of this state, and then the BIOS will probably fail to boot the next time and ask me if I want to do a factory reset.

Does this happen to anyone else? Does it actually happen with other streaming apps too and I just don't see it because I mainly use Youtube, or is it only the Google-coded app on the Google-coded box?

aandras

Best is too supply the link to the video for others to test

faintdog

I think I experience the same, but did not pin point when it happens. For me typically box freezes when casting and get a black/blank screen. Audio still plays and I can reset it using long press power button and then OK button.

Bodycount9

You talking about Youtube or YouTube TV? Because your title and message content are saying two different things.

If you're talking about YouTube TV, always exit out of the app (don't back out of it) when you're done. I find if I back out of it and go to the menu, it's still running in the background and the next time I want to use it the app doesn't work and locks up my box. Only thing that fixes it is pulling the power cord.

aldddd

Kept having that experience. Gave up and used smart youtube, no problem ever since