Does anyone have problems playing back large MKV files? I was watching Star Wars: RotJ and the playback slows down and becomes choppy every 10 seconds or so. It doesn't buffer, it just get choppy.
My AFTV plays small and medium size (8-14gb) MKV files just fine.
Is there any way to fix this?
Probably not. It's too much bandwidth. Are you using wireless? Regular or 5G? Have yo tried Ethernet?
Sizzlechest said:
Probably not. It's too much bandwidth. Are you using wireless? Regular or 5G? Have yo tried Ethernet?
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The AFTV is normally connected to ethernet. I disconnected it and tried it through 5G and it's slightly better.
My Alienware laptop has 5G and plays it smoothly through Kodi.
I downloaded MediaInfo and this is what the file looks like:
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Isn't ethernet 100mbps? So, that should be enough to play it back smoothly right?
Try for a test a playback with the 2nd audio stream instead the first DTS audio.
Calibaan said:
Try for a test a playback with the 2nd audio stream instead the first DTS audio.
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Thanks for the idea. The other two audio tracks are DVD commentary. Unfortunately, it played worse when switched to those tracks. I also noticed that the Kodi popup windows would fade in/out much slower.
I tried the setting for ENABLE PASSTHRU but that didn't seem to make any difference.
Okay, rebooting seems to have fixed it for now.
I can play this file without any lag or stutter or choppy video:
Not sure if it's a memory issue with Kodi 14.2 or the AFTV?
I think I might update to Kodi 15.
Seems as if the hardware decoder has internally crashed. Shouldn´t happen but nothing to worry about.
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Not sure if it's a memory issue with Kodi 14.2 or the AFTV?
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I had no problem playing 17GB+ .mkv files on my AFTV with Kodi 14.1 but I did customized my advancedsetting.xml to increase the buffer size Kodi uses as well as the speed of the pre-fetch. The following settings are what I use
<network>
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<cachemembuffersize>83886080</cachemembuffersize>
<readbufferfactor>10</readbufferfactor> </network>
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Is there any way i can show any content of my kindle fire on a TV / Monitor ?
Like Playing angrybirds or, playing a Netflix movie or something.
Thanks
No accessory. You might be able to rig something up using an OTG cable and a USB display adapter, but it would be messy and you'd have to hack it together yourself.
But it is coming. The Fire uses an OMAP4 SoC, which means it will be getting support for WiFi Display:
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The problem is the WiFi Display standard hasn't been finalized. When it is we'll start seeing support from devices like the AppleTV, and Ti will release the necessary drivers. Then we just have to wait for someone like Hashcode to merge them into the kernel.
Shockingly this is something I can actually answer. What you want to broadcast digital content on your TV is a Roku box. It can play all of the digital content that you usually play on your Fire, though your Fire isn't actually a part of the equation at all. It basically just connects your TV to your WiFi signal and plays from there. It does Netflix, Hulu, and others. The top of the line Roku 2 XS comes with Angry Birds.
You won't have any trouble finding it in a search on Amazon.
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Shockingly this is something I can actually answer. What you want to broadcast digital content on your TV is a Roku box. It can play all of the digital content that you usually play on your Fire, though your Fire isn't actually a part of the equation at all. It basically just connects your TV to your WiFi signal and plays from there. It does Netflix, Hulu, and others. The top of the line Roku 2 XS comes with Angry Birds.
You won't have any trouble finding it in a search on Amazon.
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Actually, this is a separate piece of hardware, that plays its own content, as you said, there is no connection between the ruku box, my TV and my Kindle fire
Thanks tho, i will google it
Limited Airplay Support
There are apps which will beam via Wi-Fi to an AppleTV Box: iMediaShare Mirage and a few others - but there is no screen mirroring for AngryBirds and such - just beaming of local audio and video content. It works REALLY well though for what it is. I can send a 720p MP4 with no skips and it looks great on a 37" set
I think I saw one person saying that they pair their Kindle up with a Google TV. Idk what the functionality of it is though.
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Went to search on YouTube for Firetv and the display went (for lack of a better term) wonky.
Has anyone had this happen or know of a way to fix it.
I have already restarted, cleared cache and data.
It's rooted and updates are blocked.
Screenshot to show what it looks like.
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dbelleman said:
Went to search on YouTube for Firetv and the display went (for lack of a better term) wonky.
Has anyone had this happen or know of a way to fix it.
I have already restarted, cleared cache and data.
It's rooted and updates are blocked.
Screenshot to show what it looks like.
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I just checked for you. Both my rooted Fire TV running 51.1.1.0_user_511070220 and my unrooted Fire TV running 51.1.3.0_user_513011520 are having the same issue.
I suspect the Fire TV YouTube app is an HTML5 app just loading a slightly modified version of http://youtube.com/tv so if that's the case, it's probably being caused by a bug on their end and will likely get fixed eventually. Not much you can do other than contact YouTube about it.
...or since you have root,install the YouTube HD Mod from XDA forums,as it does not require Google Play components like the normal YouTube app.
Heck,you don't even need root to install it because you could sideload it like any other app!
Gonna come right out and say it,Fire TV versions of YouTube and Twitch SUCK!
Their version of Twitch even lacks the ability to search.
I grabbed the 2.5.0 main version of Twitch (3.0 versions force close on Fire TV),and it works perfectly!
What seals the deal is that you can use keyboard and mouse for better compatibility with sideloaded apps,all without needing root!
Both sideloaded YouTube and Twitch work just fine when you got a keyboard like my Logitech K400r.
Has anyone successfully loaded movies from an external HDD mounted using stickmount ?
If yes:
What external Harddrive do you have? Powered/Unpowered / brand etc.....
Any problems with large files?
Im wanting to playback large 1080p files from external, some up to 10GB and want to make sure there isnt any playback problems. If there is, how do you playback these files without problems?
Thanks in advance
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Has anyone successfully loaded movies from an external HDD mounted using stickmount ?
If yes:
What external Harddrive do you have? Powered/Unpowered / brand etc.....
Any problems with large files?
Im wanting to playback large 1080p files from external, some up to 10GB and want to make sure there isnt any playback problems. If there is, how do you playback these files without problems?
Thanks in advance
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I'm using this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178434
No problems with any 1080p files so far, I believe I've even tried a BD25 image, but that might have been from my NAS, not the local drive. I will say I've had one movie playing on the FireTV and the FireTV was serving up another movie to another device via FTP over WiFi from the same USB drive, both seemed to be playing fine.
thanks, i have something similar already, wasnt sure it would work without power.
I wanted to get a 4TB powered HDD but unsure how that will run.
ok i read on another forum about someone having problems loading up a 2TB HDD. Maybe because not enough power?
I was thinking about connecting by 1 of these so the power is supplied to the hub:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-3-0-S...t=UK_Computing_USB_Cables&hash=item1e8d5e8035
Would this work?
example:
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I have no problems whatsoever with a 2TB Western Digital Passport. (no power cord)
I play huge mkv and mp4 files all the time...
DEREKTROTTER said:
ok i read on another forum about someone having problems loading up a 2TB HDD. Maybe because not enough power?
I was thinking about connecting by 1 of these so the power is supplied to the hub:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-3-0-S...t=UK_Computing_USB_Cables&hash=item1e8d5e8035
Would this work?
example:
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This is the exact setup I'm running. Works great.
The only thing I would mention, is that my FireTV doesn't reboot correctly with the powered USB hub plugged in. Which has been reported by many others as well. If I power off the unit, and power it back on with the powered USB hub plugged in, it sits at a static black and white Amazon screen. I have to unplug the hub and reboot again to make it work.
Otherwise, this setup has been working perfectly.
Hi, I'm facing a problem with my shiny new FireTV stick, preventing it to be used as intended:
I've been using a chromecast stick to listen to online radio streams without problems. That chromecast was connected to a HDMI-audio extractor, comparable to this one: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B013WOLL44/
The audio extractor is connected to the tv (video + audio) and to a stereo amplifier (audio only). That way I can listen to audio streams on my stereo, with the TV in stand-by mode.
When I got myself a FireTV stick about a week ago, I replaced my old chromecast with it. So now the FTVS is connected to the HDMI-audio extractor.
But the FTVS enters sleep mode as soon as I switch the tv into stand-by mode (using the tv remote). So it seems to be impossible to listen to radio streams without the tv switched on.
Is there anything I can do to keep the FTVS running with TV in stand-by? (I even could solder some custom HDMI cable if needed.)
Solution: See post #3!
@spacetaxi
try to install http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/themes-apps/app-root-home-launcher-replacement-app-t3118135
and set looong Sleep timeout in FireStarter settings
maybe this help
Problem solved!
@Kramar111 Thanks for your suggestion, but that does not work.
During the last days I did further investigations and came to the following conclusion: It is a hardware feature of the FTV stick to go into sleep mode as soon as the tv is switched to stand-by. Of course that does make a lot of sense if one is using the stick for video streaming. But it does make less sense if one wants to use it for audio streaming...
I've been searching for a method to "hack" the HDMI connection, so the FTV stick does no longer recognize when the TV is switched to stand-by... and I've found a solution!
There is a looong thread on the Microsoft Technet forum regarding a somewhat similar problem with some pc video cards: https://social.technet.microsoft.co...onitor-off-detection-how?forum=w7itprogeneral
I've made two screenshots from that page, so we are able to keep the crucial bits of information, even if that thread may be no longer available someday in the future. This is the problem description from the Technet thread:
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And this is the solution that's working for my setup (see post #1), too:
Video recorded and played with MPC or VLC in Windows 10 is showed face down. Some articles talks about the issue of the camera position, but I don't know that the file stored contains the video rotated.
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Do you record your videos,using the stock camera app?
Inviato dal mio Nexus 5X utilizzando Tapatalk
(THE REAL) Neo said:
Do you record your videos,using the stock camera app?
Inviato dal mio Nexus 5X utilizzando Tapatalk
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Yes, with the Google Camera App that comes with the Phone. The record was in UHD quality, I don't test it with 1080p but I think that the result will be the same.
known issue for a while now..
Pure stupidity on google/LGs part. they placed the camera image sensor against the android specs recommendation.
Now the software must be updated to fix it.
This impacts many apps (eg: bank apps which scan check images, bar-code scanners, qr code readers.. etc)........
The IRONY is .. most of the third party apps have now been updated and they fix this issue. However, GOOGLE.... hasn't yet fixed the native camera app. they are busy preaching developers of other apps to fix the problem.. Crazy, but true. Sucks.
I'm having the same problem videos looks fine played ba"k on phone & when copied to Pc & playednon Windows media player & latest vlc, older vlc & video editing software show the true orientation, upside down & copy to a flash drive & plug into tv & also upside-down. I have checked the video meta data & the rotation is 180 so that software can rotate to display correct way up.
I guess most users won't be aware of this fault as they just playback on there phones..
Does anyone know if Google is working on a fix.
This is a massive fault as you cannot change the orientation afterwards so all my 4k Christmas videos can never be transferred to a USB stick & played on 4k tv.
To stop nexus 5x recording upside-down videos you Have to hold the phone left handed then videos are correct way up.
Hope Google fix this as most people are right handed, anyway you should be able to hold the phone anyway you want.