I'm facing a strange problem, my app which is essentially simple video player. Works perfectly fine when its a dev app side loaded via eclipse plugin. However when I package and publish it on Roku and then use it , it behaves strangely. First screen gets loaded fine the one which actually plays video shows up plays a frame or two and closes abruptly.
Does anyone know if roku package and publish thingys might be doing some rewrites that is making my app misbehave ?
No - it does not touch the package once it had been zip-ed and sign-ed.
Try doing the upload directly with browser at port 80 of the player, as described in the documentation. The eclipse plugin is just a crutch, it cannot do anything that can't be done with a browser/telnet/curl at the box.
Also make sure you are testing in the very same conditions - on the same player, both the (private) channel from Roku servers and the "side-loaded" version.