I cant, as the title says, get videos to play completely smooth on my fire. I know I am picky about stuttering when I am watching videos, but several of the videos I have converted are clearly not smooth on my kindle(they are on my pc).
I mostly tried with different versions of gedeROM and mxPlayer, but i have also tested with some other roms and videoplayers, and its almost the same. In handbrake I have tried to adjust codecs for video and sound, and bitrate and container. Some of the rendered videos are worse than other, but none are perfect.
Is there anybody which are experiencing the same problems? If not; what setting/players do you use?
I am using hw decoding and no overclocking
Have you tried using other files you haven't encoded yourself? I stream video over a home network with Bsplayer lite and samba share and a wide variety of formats and encoding profiles work fine.
I have used Handbrake though, the Ipad (1st gen) preset works well and is a good starting point if you're one of those people that has to tweak the hell out of everything .
Lotek, you are my hero! Thanks bsplayer worked way better than mx and moboplayer. The ipadpreset worked pretty well as well. Now i can enjoy videos on my Kindle
Sorry if this has been answered before but I searched the forum and found very little info.
I just got my AFTV and sideloaded XBMC (signed-xbmc-13.1-FireTV(v6)) on to it. I have Audio Passthrough enabled so that my MKV files with AC-3 and DTS (not DTS HD) can go directly to my receiver. What I am noticing is that the Playback of these files (Over a wired Network both devices connected to a Gigabit switch) seem to be jittery or choppy (not so much that I can not watch them). I am coming from a WD Live TV and it never had this problem. I have tried playing the files via SMB and NFS shares and both seem to show the same results. The file sizes range from 400MB to up to 10GB. I have tried both Hardware Acceleration and Software. Is this a limitation of the AFTV (Which I don't want to believe because the WD Live TV has way lower specs) or is there a certain setup I have to do in the Settings to get it to play 100% Smooth?
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Sorry if this has been answered before but I searched the forum and found very little info.
I just got my AFTV and sideloaded XBMC (signed-xbmc-13.1-FireTV(v6)) on to it. I have Audio Passthrough enabled so that my MKV files with AC-3 and DTS (not DTS HD) can go directly to my receiver. What I am noticing is that the Playback of these files (Over a wired Network both devices connected to a Gigabit switch) seem to be jittery or choppy (not so much that I can not watch them). I am coming from a WD Live TV and it never had this problem. I have tried playing the files via SMB and NFS shares and both seem to show the same results. The file sizes range from 400MB to up to 10GB. I have tried both Hardware Acceleration and Software. Is this a limitation of the AFTV (Which I don't want to believe because the WD Live TV has way lower specs) or is there a certain setup I have to do in the Settings to get it to play 100% Smooth?
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I experience the same with my FireTV and the Ouya. It's really noticable when the Motion Interpolation settings is ACTIVE on my LEDTV.
With the Motion Interpolation desactivated, It's harder to notice, but it's there.
Glad to see that i'm not alone noticing this.
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I experience the same with my FireTV and the Ouya. It's really noticable when the Motion Interpolation settings is ACTIVE on my LEDTV.
With the Motion Interpolation desactivated, It's harder to notice, but it's there.
Glad to see that i'm not alone noticing this.
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So I am guessing it's a limitation of XBMC? Movies off of Amazon Prime play flawlessly, but I assume those aren't MKV's. I really like the box but this is a deal breaker for me. I have a huge collection of BluRay Rips in MKV format. I guess it's back to the WD Live TV.
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I got flawless playback of non-DTS MKV on the Sony NSZ-GS7 I once had until replacing it with Fire TV because it got corrupted somehow.
I think Fire TV is missing proper support for a lot of essential formats.
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Sorry if this has been answered before but I searched the forum and found very little info.
I just got my AFTV and sideloaded XBMC (signed-xbmc-13.1-FireTV(v6)) on to it. I have Audio Passthrough enabled so that my MKV files with AC-3 and DTS (not DTS HD) can go directly to my receiver. What I am noticing is that the Playback of these files (Over a wired Network both devices connected to a Gigabit switch) seem to be jittery or choppy (not so much that I can not watch them). I am coming from a WD Live TV and it never had this problem. I have tried playing the files via SMB and NFS shares and both seem to show the same results. The file sizes range from 400MB to up to 10GB. I have tried both Hardware Acceleration and Software. Is this a limitation of the AFTV (Which I don't want to believe because the WD Live TV has way lower specs) or is there a certain setup I have to do in the Settings to get it to play 100% Smooth?
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I had that problem on one file, I demuxed and remuxed using MKVToolnix and it played flawlessly after
I using this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2790392 XBMC
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So I am guessing it's a limitation of XBMC? Movies off of Amazon Prime play flawlessly, but I assume those aren't MKV's. I really like the box but this is a deal breaker for me. I have a huge collection of BluRay Rips in MKV format. I guess it's back to the WD Live TV.
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Just to be clear, the hiccup I talk about is hard to see for a common human eye (my girlfriend doesn't notice at all). The movie plays really well,
But for a 24p on 24hz refreshrate fan, the tinny hiccup is noticable. jdawng0024, do we talk about the same thing ?
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Just to be clear, the hiccup I talk about is hard to see for a common human eye (my girlfriend doesn't notice at all). The movie plays really well,
But for a 24p on 24hz refreshrate fan, the tinny hiccup is noticable. jdawng0024, do we talk about the same thing ?
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Mine is noticeable to everyone who sees it. The file plays but is Jerky. Coming from a WD Live TV the Amazon Box Plays worse. I have been reading the forums for a couple of days now and I might install an older version of XBMC. All of my files are mkv with DTS or AC-3 audio and they are all 1080p.
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Mine is noticeable to everyone who sees it. The file plays but is Jerky. Coming from a WD Live TV the Amazon Box Plays worse. I have been reading the forums for a couple of days now and I might install an older version of XBMC. All of my files are mkv with DTS or AC-3 audio and they are all 1080p.
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Might be a ''noob' question but, are you able to see your rendering stats with ''O' on the keyboard' or with your remote (keymap no.3). Is it really dc:stf-h264 that you see or dc:ff-h264 ??
I say that because I found a bug that, if I play a bunch of music video for example with party mode or not, after a while, maybe 15 or 25 clips. XBMC cannot decode the video with hardware decoding anymore. Even if libstagefright is selected in acceleration settings, the renderer clearly displays dc:ff-h264 for all my h264 video. Because of that, all videos stutters/jitters/frame drop.The only workaround I found is to reboot the FireTV with Home+Play for 5 seconds. And everythings is find until it happens again.
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Might be a ''noob' question but, are you able to see your rendering stats with ''O' on the keyboard' or with your remote (keymap no.3). Is it really dc:stf-h264 that you see or dc:ff-h264 ??
I say that because I found a bug that, if I play a bunch of music video for example with party mode or not, after a while, maybe 15 or 25 clips. XBMC cannot decode the video with hardware decoding anymore. Even if libstagefright is selected in acceleration settings, the renderer clearly displays dc:ff-h264 for all my h264 video. Because of that, all videos stutters/jitters/frame drop.The only workaround I found is to reboot the FireTV with Home+Play for 5 seconds. And everythings is find until it happens again.
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ive also experienced issues with xbmc properly selecting libstagefright. it happened when i was screwing around with both mediacodec and libstagefright enabled. the fix for me was to disable all acceleration, reboot the unit, enable libstagefright, reboot again, good to go ever since.
Ok think I got it a lot better. I restarted from Scratch. Every once in a while I will see it but it isn't nearly as bad. going to try to load the avancedsettings.xml and see if that smooths it out even further.
You are at a stalemate with XBMC since an OTA update reportedly fixed jittery 1080P playback AFAIK.
I found some speed enhancements throughout the weeks,but I never got around to posting them all.
Terribly sorry about forgetting to make that speed enhancement thread to those that want it,I have just been out of it lately.
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You are at a stalemate with XBMC since an OTA update reportedly fixed jittery 1080P playback AFAIK.
I found some speed enhancements throughout the weeks,but I never got around to posting them all.
Terribly sorry about forgetting to make that speed enhancement thread to those that want it,I have just been out of it lately.
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Could you give more details on this OTA update?
Ended up going back to my WD Live TV. MKV playback blows the amazon fireTV out of the water. I will continue to follow its progress and hopefully it gets better. I will buy it again once things get ironed out.
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Could you give more details on this OTA update?
Ended up going back to my WD Live TV. MKV playback blows the amazon fireTV out of the water. I will continue to follow its progress and hopefully it gets better. I will buy it again once things get ironed out.
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Hey, just wondering if this ever got resolved. I'm also a WDTV Live user, and I was thinking about "upgrading" to a FireTV with its much snappier interface, more apps, etc. But almost ALL of my movies and TV are h264 mkvs with either DTS or AC3 sound (and some AAC/mp4s mixed in there as well).
Can the FireTV play those kinds of files flawlessly from a SMB or NFS share? It's been months since this thread was active, so I wanted to see if this is a "solved" issue nowadays. Thanks!
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Hey, just wondering if this ever got resolved. I'm also a WDTV Live user, and I was thinking about "upgrading" to a FireTV with its much snappier interface, more apps, etc. But almost ALL of my movies and TV are h264 mkvs with either DTS or AC3 sound (and some AAC/mp4s mixed in there as well).
Can the FireTV play those kinds of files flawlessly from a SMB or NFS share? It's been months since this thread was active, so I wanted to see if this is a "solved" issue nowadays. Thanks!
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flawlessly dude.. the OP was one of the few experiencing issues, i have a huge library of files on my SMB share and they all stream and play flawlessly.
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flawlessly dude.. the OP was one of the few experiencing issues, i have a huge library of files on my SMB share and they all stream and play flawlessly.
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So just sideload XBMC (any particular version/build/etc?) and you're off to the races? No rooting, no flashing, etc?
Plays mkvs containing h264 or MPEG4, DTS or AC3, old xvid avis, etc? Will it play subtitles that aren't muxed into the mkvs (like in an srt file named the same as the mkv)?
I am also experiencing judder when playing 1080p H.264 (AC3 audio) MKV files with the fire TV.
I’ve tried XBMC and MXPlayer. I am seeing judder and frame drops with my AFTV, but can’t figure out why or how to tweak it. The same files play smoothly on my Galaxy S4 and Nexus 7 using MX Player.
Any thoughts?
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So just sideload XBMC (any particular version/build/etc?) and you're off to the races? No rooting, no flashing, etc?
Plays mkvs containing h264 or MPEG4, DTS or AC3, old xvid avis, etc? Will it play subtitles that aren't muxed into the mkvs (like in an srt file named the same as the mkv)?
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im rooted but it doesnt matter for XBMC, im running gotham 13.2 , DTS DD and AC3 all work great via HDMI and optical, i would assume it will auto use a local srt file but for sure you can point it to it.. xbmc will scrape the net for any subtitles for every movie i've encountered, so it shouldnt be an issue for you. the XBMC wiki has a good section with everything you need to know about xbmc and the FTV, there are a few device specific settings you need to make and your off to the races.
Has anyone who was experiencing the DTS MKV video judder audo sync issues resolved them? I just picked up two AFTV's and can not get my DTS MKV's to work.
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I got AFTV a month ago and did not have an issue streaming MKV videos from my synology nas via WiFi 5GHz. after a few days i started to notice video judder and i switch from WiFi to plug in Ethernet and it made it worse. it appears that AFTV connects better with WiFi from streaming shows/movies compare to plug in Ethernet. is there specific settings i need to adjust for the Ethernet plug to work better?
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Has anyone who was experiencing the DTS MKV video judder audo sync issues resolved them? I just picked up two AFTV's and can not get my DTS MKV's to work.
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mine all work fine, you have libstagefright enabled and media codec disabled right?
I used to use Apple TV to play youtube and 1080p content looks great. But when I tried youtube on Fire TV, it is at most SD, not 720p, not 1080p and it looks blurred! I assume Amazon crippled it (Same is true to XBOX 360 and one).
Is there anyway to let Fire TV to play youtube 1080p? Or I still have to use Apple TV for youtube.
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I used to use Apple TV to play youtube and 1080p content looks great. But when I tried youtube on Fire TV, it is at most SD, not 720p, not 1080p and it looks blurred! I assume Amazon crippled it (Same is true to XBOX 360 and one).
Is there anyway to let Fire TV to play youtube 1080p? Or I still have to use Apple TV for youtube.
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I just passed my Fire TV internet connection through Wireshark, a packet analyzer, and played several videos through the YouTube app that had 1080p as an option on the website. The "itag" parameter (which determines the video resolution) of the HTTP requests to YouTube was always either 136 or 137. It flip flopped between these two values randomly. According to this document, 136 refers to 1280 x 720 MP4, and 137 refers to 1920 x 1080 MP4. I verified the video resolution matched the itag value by pasting the requested video URL into a browser and downloading the returned video segment.
That leads me to believe that the video quality is variable and selected based on your connection characteristics. So if you're seeing poor quality video, then either your ISP is throttling you, or YouTube has decided your connection is insufficient for 720p or 1080p.
You can test your connect to YouTube here: https://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/
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.....That leads me to believe that the video quality is variable and selected based on your connection characteristics. So if you're seeing poor quality video, then either your ISP is throttling you, or YouTube has decided your connection is insufficient for 720p or 1080p.
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I tried both Apple TV and Fire TV, with the same youtube account with the same video program saved in playlist. I can easily tell with ATV the video quality is 1080p (I can tell the difference on ATV with 1080p/720p/480p). But on Fire TV or XBOX, it is always lowest quality (maybe 480p). So I am pretty sure it is not ISP issue. I am using cable and I can get 30Mbps.
A good thing that works without root:Youtube HD Mod
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529715
I even once had this working perfectly on my Sony NSZ-GS7!
It works without needing anything else,just sideload using any preferred method and you get access to 1080P!
Just adjust the extra settings to gain access to the 1080P resolution.
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A good thing that works without root:Youtube HD Mod.
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Define "works" when you cannot log in to use your subscriptions. This whole Youtube /Amazon BS is irritating: somehow I can't even install the "blue" Youtube app...FireTube works fine...go figure.
Almost like they're hell-bent to drive us crazy.
I only used the YouTube HD Mod without subscriptions.
UC Web Browser works amazingly with the desktop YouTube videos.
I watched all five of somecallmejonny's Sonic hack showcase videos with almost zero issues. (YouTube error once)
SHEGA...Thomas was everywhere.
My normal browsing experience frequently involves clicking media links that trigger third-party players. In particular, I click links for video files or audio files that play in VLC primarily. How do I integrate VLC into the Silk or Firefox browsing experience on the Fire TV? For example, I want VLC to be triggered as a player whenever I click a link in the Firefox or Silk Fire TV browser that ends in .m3u8.
Thanks in advance for the help. I'm quite surprised that I've hit a brick wall on this; I would have thought it would have been a standard part of the browser setup on the Fire TV, now that Firefox and Silk are both available for it. But apparently it is not.
By the way, I manually installed VLC by itself on the Fire TV and it works O.K. with some exceptions, though I still need to figure out how to integrate it with one or both of my Fire TV browsers. There are a few live video streams which VLC handles fine on my computer but where it has some problems when playing on a Fire TV (specifically, some live video streams use a segmented system, where the stream is not continuous but consists of small video files of ten or fifteen seconds, followed by another file of the same length, followed by another file of the same length, etc. etc. This segmented steaming system works fine in VLC on my computers but when these streams play back in VLC on the Fire TV, you can see the breaks/interruptions as each segment finishes playing and VLC loads up the next one). So I guess I'm also in the market for another video streaming player for my Fire TV, in addition to the VLC player, specifically a video player that can better handle segmented streaming in the Fire TV environment. Though I guess that second question may belong in a separate thread perhaps. (By the way, I just discovered that the VLC player does NOT have this problem on my regular plain vanilla LG Tribute HD phone (Android version 6.0.1) with live segmented streams. The VLC player's problem with live segmented streams seems to be confined to the Fire TV. Problem on the Fire TV or with VLC?)