# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Remote media audio/video playback issues in desktop

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes relate to remote media (audio/video) not playing or rendering correctly in the desktop app, including broken TTS audio files and artifact rendering problems. Fixes involve gateway and stream handling logic for remote media.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 2 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Members outside that structural core may belong to a different underlying problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.45`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #44748: Remote Desktop inline MEDIA audio/video renders but does not play
- #46135: \[Bug\]: Desktop app shows remote TTS MEDIA audio as 0-second/broken file

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#46143: fix(desktop): check remote gateway before local media stream for audio/video**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#46135`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`