2014-07-22, 09:31
(2014-07-22, 05:19)King_o_hill Wrote: I realize this is my first post, but I have been reading here for the past several weeks. I am just at my wits end with this Fire TV and I'm strongly considering smashing it with a hammer! I have tried every version of XBMC known to man, but I can't get any kind of smooth playback or streaming. I have XBMC setup on another computer on my network and it works great from there. I can even unplug my Fire TV and plug in a BlueRay player and the BR will play my movies and TV shows through UPnP without any problems. Please help me. I am willing to start anywhere, even if I have to wipe this FTV and start all over again. I have more hours in this than you can imagine. TIA
If you are on a wired network and have decent speed, I would seriously consider returning the Fire TV you are about to smash with a hammer: There is clearly something defective.
If you have indeed been paying attention to this forum, you could not help but come away with the impression that most everyone is pretty thrilled with their FIRE TV's… me included.
However, there are lemons in every batch and before I'd spend even another minute anguishing over the FTV in your possession, I'd go ahead and switch it out -- if you can.
If you cannot, I would do a a complete refresh of the Amazon TV and, of course, a fresh XBMC install and see if that helps.
You didn't say which version of XBMC you're running, but, personally, I have found that the SMPC versions work best for me…. 13.2 being the latest.