[Natural Sound]

I had problems right off the bat when streaming video. It would play for a while and then I'd get stuttering video (almost like slow motion) and the audio would drop out. If I paused it for a few seconds and then hit play again it would work for a while. This was with WiFi. Thinking that I had a network issue I plugged the box directly into my router. It seemed a little better but the problem persisted especially with HD content, SD tended to work OK. I tried a bunch of recommendations that I found on this forum but nothing seemed to work. I kind of got frustrated and gave up for a while. Now I'm interested in getting this thing going again. One of the tips I found recommended disabling hardware acceleration. I did that and it appears that most of the stuttering is gone. I feel like I made a lot of progress. Yet the underlying question is, why doesn't the hardware acceleration work? And does it really matter?

what you're describing doesn't sound like a playback issue, but the only way to be sure is to try with local (vs streaming) media. Hardware acceleration works perfectly fine with these boxes, esp with the version of OE you're running.

Thanks Matt. If by local you mean playing video (mostly MKV's in my case) via a USB stick or hard drive, yes that seems to work fine. Streaming recorded programming on MythTV, network storage or internet streams is where I seem to have trouble. I was originally thinking that I had a network problem but my ROKU/Plex setup on the same network works fine.