[ex313]

I have a linux server with an ntfs share that I watch movies off of. When I start playback Kodi will frequently stutter and the screen will be very jumpy. If I pause it , or do a small rewind and hit play again it will smooth itself out most of the time. I have seen issues where a few minutes into the movie it starts doing the same thing.

Kodi 17.3 is running on a v1 Amazon Fire Stick. We have no issues streaming, so I am hard pressed to think its a bandwidth issue. The playback problem occurs on MKV, AVI & MP4 format files.

I have not tried to change any settings at this point - and suggestions on how to troubleshoot.

[Klojum]

Why not provide a debug log so we can see what is going on under the hood?

[ex313]

I will pull a log tomorrow. I did put debug mode on and it looks like the CPUs are being maxed out on certain files, like the MKV.

[Atreyu]

Check if hardware acceleration is used.
Software mode might stress out the cpus