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Has anyone been having video stuttering problems with SPMC on the shield?
I just bought my shield. I have an Intel NUC that I used as my normal HTPC. I play no problems on my nuc but anything I play on the shield stutters and it's extremely distracting
Videos are on a home server shared via SMB. I've tried changing codecs and and settings but nothing seems to work. I also increased my buffer thinking maybe it wasn't loading fast enough.
I've tried searching online but I can't seem to find much info, it's mostly about plex and YouTube and stuff.
The videos also appear to stutter in the regular kodi app as well.
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2016-08-24, 18:56
(This post was last modified: 2016-08-24, 18:58 by Kris77.)
Refreshed browser and accidentally sent post again. Sorry.
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Anyone else experiencing lipsync issues when watching Live TV in SPMC (I'm using the latest build)?
I only see it when a TV channel has a DD5.1 audio track. CodecInfo shows the A/V drift as much as 5 seconds.
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Which version does 4K Amazon Fire ? Or is it still in beta?
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2016-08-26, 01:25
(This post was last modified: 2016-08-26, 01:26 by Ned Scott.)
(2016-08-24, 23:28)timstephens24 Wrote: (2016-08-24, 16:46)Tinwarble Wrote: (2016-08-24, 16:18)Ned Scott Wrote: The shield controller's touch buttons might be the issue. They are prone to errors, and play/pause is one of those buttons.
That might have been a possibility, if I were using the controller. But I'm not sure that it could be that with the controllers off.
I made a post about this a while ago. I'm pretty sure it has to do with Recommendations (and turning it off for the app doesn't seem to stop the app from trying to update Recommends in the background). In my case it was SlingTV specifically but pretty sure Recommendations is the root cause.
I suspect it might be a little of both. Some recommendations (or something related to them) are certainly causing an interruption that causes video pausing in various apps. I also think Nvidia has a minor issue with the touch buttons on both the controller and the remote (the remote once had a feature that was later pulled that allowed a double-tap on the touch-volume bar to play/pause. Some remotes might still have this feature enabled?).
I've never had a play/pause issue on my Shield, but I would try this: disconnecting all bluetooth remotes, and turning off all recommendations. There's an Android app for controlling Android TV boxes that can be used for this test, since a control method is still needed. If there's no random play/pause, repeat the process but with controller or remote connected, etc.
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2016-08-26, 05:54
(This post was last modified: 2016-08-26, 05:55 by Wagg.)
The pause issue on the Shield is well known to be from both the Sling and Spotify apps. Uninstalling both usually solves the problem for most people.
I'm still trying to figure out how to not stop playback with BACK. Anyone?
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2016-08-26, 06:01
(This post was last modified: 2016-08-26, 06:01 by Ned Scott.)
(2016-08-26, 05:54)Wagg Wrote: The pause issue on the Shield is well known to be from both the Sling and Spotify apps. Uninstalling both usually solves the problem for most people.
I'm still trying to figure out how to not stop playback with BACK. Anyone?
That's just a
keymap (wiki) file change. By default you can long-press "Back" and it will keep playing. If you want, you can swap them to the old behavior using a keymap file like this:
Code:
<keymap>
<FullscreenVideo>
<keyboard>
<backspace>Fullscreen</backspace>
<backspace mod="longpress">Stop</backspace>
</keyboard>
</FullscreenVideo>
</keymap>