2019-10-21, 22:34
I'm running Kodi 18.4 on my Fire TV Gen 2 over Ethernet LAN, and starting a few days ago, I started seeing pixelation and MPEG artifacts primarily from movement, and it takes 5-10 seconds before the picture clears up again. I also see it in non-motion scenes when the image is largely made up of crossing diagonal lines, even when the objects making up the crosshatching are large.
I've been running Kodi on it for years now, and have never seen this before. I know it's not the source material or the network because the same sources play fine on my second Fire TV Gen 2 (which is running Kodi 16) and on my Windows box. In terms of mere appearance, it looks like the result of insufficient processing power, but my guess is that a buffering issue is more likely.
I tried adding an advancedsettings.xml file to adjust buffering, but that didn't solve the problem. Here is that file's contents:
I've been running Kodi on it for years now, and have never seen this before. I know it's not the source material or the network because the same sources play fine on my second Fire TV Gen 2 (which is running Kodi 16) and on my Windows box. In terms of mere appearance, it looks like the result of insufficient processing power, but my guess is that a buffering issue is more likely.
I tried adding an advancedsettings.xml file to adjust buffering, but that didn't solve the problem. Here is that file's contents:
Quote:<advancedsettings>What else can I try? Thank you for your time!
<network>
<buffermode> 1 </buffermode>
<readbufferfactor> 2 </readbufferfactor>
<cachemembuffersize> 124857600 </cachemembuffersize>
</network>
</advancedsettings>