Hi all
I have just go my OUYA and first thing i did was put the latest version of SPMC on it, downloaded a few add ons etc and went to play some movies. I have foind that the HD movies (720 & 1080) play ok for a while say 45 mins but then begin to stutter quite a lot.
I am using ethernet connection and my internet speed is 30mb.
Sometimes when i first open up a movie it says buffering and then says cache is full not enough required for continius play. It will still play fine, but like i say a good 45 mins into the movie it starts to go wrong.
When i look at the buffer bar, the little qhite bar is always neck and neck with it, the buffer never gets way ahead like it does on say you tube.
any advice would be great.
thanks
chris
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Hi, I tried to search but couldn't find anything about this problem.
The other day I was trying to record video at a kid's birthday party, and the video was somewhat long, around 6-7 minutes. Without any warning, the video stopped recording and went straight to the home screen. I tried to play the video file, but it shows up as a gray box on the phone and doesn't play on either my phone or my computer. I tried various video players.
This happened to me again, I went up to wine country and was taking a video from my car mount of the scenery as I drove down the windy roads. I stopped one video at around 5-6 minutes, the second one I didn't stop it that soon and the phone went to home screen again. Video was unplayable, same as last time.
I tried to replicate the issue recording videos, tried to push the home screen or any other buttons to replicate the issue - all times the video saved if you stopped the recording one way or another. I even tried to send myself an email to see if notifications could stop the video, didn't do anything. I recorded till around 7 minutes, and the phone went to home screen around 6:52. Same result as before.
All the files that were unplayable weren't unusually large, around 300-355 megs I believe. I'm running the stock 8gb card, and I'm rooted with baked snack 9.6. Free space on card was around 3-4 gigs each time, free space on phone roughly 80 mb. I'm using mpeg-4, all other videos I record are fine.
So is there anyways to fix this problem? It's kind of hard to always stop the phone at the right time to avoid this, and I'm wondering what's causing it in the first place. Could it be that the phone's ram is reaching capacity?
Hello! I am having a really annoying problem with youtube (the website m.youtube.com not the app) on my Nexus 7 2013. Basically, the problem is that it takes FOREVER to load a video. Now, I may not have the fastest internet connection in the world (far from it actually), but I can easily load a 720p video on my laptop in 5 - 7 seconds. Now on my nexus 7, the EXACT same video at 720p takes 23 - 24 seconds to load! I could turn off hd and cut about half off of that time, but then it looks like a mosaic of pixels -_- I really don't get this, as mobile youtube was always way faster than on the desktop for me. However, ever since they updated the UI (to look more like the desktop) it is so slow. I love youtube and watch it every day, so this is a big problem for me. If someone could help me, I would be really grateful! Thanks!
JakeReis said:
Hello! I am having a really annoying problem with youtube (the website m.youtube.com not the app) on my Nexus 7 2013. Basically, the problem is that it takes FOREVER to load a video. Now, I may not have the fastest internet connection in the world (far from it actually), but I can easily load a 720p video on my laptop in 5 - 7 seconds. Now on my nexus 7, the EXACT same video at 720p takes 23 - 24 seconds to load! I could turn off hd and cut about half off of that time, but then it looks like a mosaic of pixels -_- I really don't get this, as mobile youtube was always way faster than on the desktop for me. However, ever since they updated the UI (to look more like the desktop) it is so slow. I love youtube and watch it every day, so this is a big problem for me. If someone could help me, I would be really grateful! Thanks!
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Same, happens on my Nexus 7 but not on my Note 3 even though they run on the same WiFi network.
I am not sure what is causing this
I'm lucky if I can watch a video that doesn't 1: stutter or buffer 2: lockup part way through the video and 3: lockup my N7.
Sometimes clearing the cache in the app helps but most of the time it doesn't.
fasthair
fasthair said:
I'm lucky if I can watch a video that doesn't 1: stutter or buffer 2: lockup part way through the video and 3: lockup my N7.
Sometimes clearing the cache in the app helps but most of the time it doesn't.
fasthair
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I know right? Don't even get me started on trying to rewind or fast forward...it sometimes crashes my tablet so bad I have to hard reset. I wonder if it has something to do with flash? On my old kindle fire with a custom ROM and flash I have no problems. N7 doesn't have flash. Wonder if there is a relationship.
Just use the Viral app instead if YouTube! It loads real 720p faster than the sub par HD option in the original app. It also has allot of other improvements like background playback and popup play.
It never crashes for me, but buffers a lot. None of the other devices (Asus tablet, laptop, mobile) have this problem.
Ever since I moved all a sudden plex won't allow me to resume movies. It just sits there loading, nothing's changed on my system except having a new modem and router, the router is just a newer revision.
Bump, still an issue. I can't even resume a video period now. I have to start the movie fresh the FFWD it to where I left off.
Spykez0129 said:
Bump, still an issue. I can't even resume a video period now. I have to start the movie fresh the FFWD it to where I left off.
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I'm new to AFTV and Plex, and I also can not resume videos. After it spinning for a little bit, I get the message that it can't play the video. If I start from the beginning, it plays no problem.
Maybe you should look here: https://forums.plex.tv/categories/google-tv-amazon-fire-tv.
Got the Amazon fire TV one week back and its not rooted, but Installed XBMC.
When I try to watch a video on you tube after 5 to 10 minutes, it starts buffering and the video doesnt play afterwards, I have to go back and open it againa, and forward it to the original place and watch it, again after 5 minutes samethign happens..
Same with XBMC, after 5 minutes video buffers, but after couple of minutes if click play button video resumes, but after couple of minutes buffering starts...
I watch youtube on my laptop or chromecast, it works perfectly , so i dont think there is any problem with wifi. Also I have download speeds of 20MBPS +
Is it because of faulty device or anythign else. Yestereday i cleared youtube apps data, still the problem continues.. Please suggest me how can I resolve it??
TIA
I can't help but blame and jab qualcomm with a stick when it comes to Fire TV problems.
Especially Fire TV is stuck with older v5x instead of v66.
I have my own video issues where it fails entirely.
After long enough,videos completely refuse to work (error ocurred) on YouTube and many others until I restart with ctrl+alt+delete hotkeys.
I haven't seen it happen in quite a while though since modding several minor aspects with various performance tweaks.
I talked to staples, they are sending me a new device, but looking at the problems that people have, the new device may not solve the problem... Lets see..
Part of the reason why I got and rooted my FTV was for Stickmount so I can play my MKV files off my external HD. Even though it works sometimes, I have significant problems with it and I was hoping I could get help with it or if it's just unfixable. Note that these problems are all off of playing a file directly off an external HD, so I don't get why it doesn't work.
1. Even though my movie has chapters and it even indicates the chapters on the top of the player, it is not possible to choose chapters or skip chapters.
2. Fast forwarding barely even works at all. Hitting the up arrow on the select wheel is supposed to fast forward it by something like 10 minutes, but it basically does nothing. Hitting the right arrow is supposed to FF it by 30 seconds, but it likewise does nothing. And then when I try to fast forward it normally, the time indicated it is fast-forwarding a lot but when I hit play, it has barely gone anywhere at all and has lag to catch up to the fast forward which only went a minute or so in real time when the time counter indicates it was supposed to FF by 10-15 minutes.
3. The FTV has frozen the last 2 times I've been watching a movie and when I restart, I have to start again from the beginning and basically let it run for an hour or more before I can even start watching where it froze on me before.
I just don't understand why this app's functionality is so terrible. It's so bad for me that it practically makes it unusable. I sold my WDTV Live because the FTV was supposed to be amazing, but the WDTV never had a single issue playing back local storage, while the FTV with Stickmount is unusable. I would get the WDTV Live back but the FTV offers infinitely more possibilities and features.
Can anyone direct me perhaps to an alternative program to Stickmount, or try to help me to solve these issues I have been having? Was I just expecting too much from this player/Stickmount? It's so bad that I am considering selling the FTV since this was one of the key reasons for me buying it.
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Part of the reason why I got and rooted my FTV was for Stickmount so I can play my MKV files off my external HD. Even though it works sometimes, I have significant problems with it and I was hoping I could get help with it or if it's just unfixable. Note that these problems are all off of playing a file directly off an external HD, so I don't get why it doesn't work.
1. Even though my movie has chapters and it even indicates the chapters on the top of the player, it is not possible to choose chapters or skip chapters.
2. Fast forwarding barely even works at all. Hitting the up arrow on the select wheel is supposed to fast forward it by something like 10 minutes, but it basically does nothing. Hitting the right arrow is supposed to FF it by 30 seconds, but it likewise does nothing. And then when I try to fast forward it normally, the time indicated it is fast-forwarding a lot but when I hit play, it has barely gone anywhere at all and has lag to catch up to the fast forward which only went a minute or so in real time when the time counter indicates it was supposed to FF by 10-15 minutes.
3. The FTV has frozen the last 2 times I've been watching a movie and when I restart, I have to start again from the beginning and basically let it run for an hour or more before I can even start watching where it froze on me before.
I just don't understand why this app's functionality is so terrible. It's so bad for me that it practically makes it unusable. I sold my WDTV Live because the FTV was supposed to be amazing, but the WDTV never had a single issue playing back local storage, while the FTV with Stickmount is unusable. I would get the WDTV Live back but the FTV offers infinitely more possibilities and features.
Can anyone direct me perhaps to an alternative program to Stickmount, or try to help me to solve these issues I have been having? Was I just expecting too much from this player/Stickmount? It's so bad that I am considering selling the FTV since this was one of the key reasons for me buying it.
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I don't see that Stickmount is the problem. All it does is mount your external drive, which it does. So, what media player are you using? What file format? What remote? Kodi? There are alternate keymaps you can try.
Oh I was not aware that there were different players before. I have Kodi and I just go to Videos > Files and click my movie and it plays it
I got MXPlayer and it actually worked without a problem on the video, but I really don't want to have to use it because it is very messily organized with my files and takes more steps to open it.
I thought there was just a default player in Kodi?
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Oh I was not aware that there were different players before. I have Kodi and I just go to Videos > Files and click my movie and it plays it
I got MXPlayer and it actually worked without a problem on the video, but I really don't want to have to use it because it is very messily organized with my files and takes more steps to open it.
I thought there was just a default player in Kodi?
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Check out these two :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/general/mounting-external-usb-to-data-t2889319
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/development/busymount-v1-0-t2920146