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hi all, I'm new to this forum.
quick story.
I'm in uk, London and I've been using 2017 firestick since one year, the one with alexa integrated on the remote control.
Installed Kodi ans some other apps specific for android tv, and everything run smoothly , kodi addon like covenant are working as they meant.
Yesterday I received the very new firestick 4k at 34.99 quid and soon after I installed and tried on my Hitachi 4k tv set.
Well, I installed kodi Leia Rc1 , covenant and fantastic just as test for streaming (i have got hyperoptic service at 150 Mb) with an ASUS RT-N66U router
Apparently all went well , movies run smoothly even at 1080 , and latency is very low. but ..
after 2 or 3 minutes every kind of stream , from 480p to 320p to 1080p stops, like unbuffered and after a while kodi die.
Tried leia beta 4 and beta 5, and also the last stable Krypton, with same results.
I have no tried with embeded prime video or music, at now I'm focused on kodi.
Any suggestions ?
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The general hardware specs look impressing, the current price is great.
However, what I am really missing currently, is the HD audio passthrough because my amplifier unfortunately produces noise when decoding PCM.
I think/believe that the other current issues with Kodi (4k problems) and overall issues (audio problem) might be fixed in the future by Amazon or the Kodi developers.
But is there anyone who could judge if the missing HD audio passthrough is a hardware limitation or if this is also a driver or Kodi "bug"? As PCM uses more bandwith and is working, I would not believe in a hardware bandwidth problem...
I ask because I want to invest in a kind of "future proof" device that does not need to be put in the trash after 12 months even if it is a cheap one... And yes, I know about the upcoming AV1 codec etc. ...
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It's more likely a licensing constraint.
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On hardware or FireOS side?
However, this would not make a difference as long as rooting and dual-booting e.g. LibreElec and FireOS is not possible...
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2018-11-23, 17:53
(This post was last modified: 2018-11-23, 17:54 by Sscr.)
Thanks Ozkhan1! All my files are just my plain old dvd collection ripped to ISO files, no blue ray of 4K stuff, but would mind that option in the future if I pick up some used blue rays. I moved to Bowling Green KY and they still have Family Video stores here that sell second hand stuff!
I’ll pick up a couple amazon fire sticks 4K to play around with.
And all I need is a switch not a router? I ran 3000’ feet of cat6 when I built the house so that won’t be an issue with wired connections.
I’m on 8 acres for less than half the cost of my 1/4 acre back in Chicago with woods and cows for neighbors, love it. Just no internet options.
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I don’t mind getting a router and plugging it into the hotspot.
For some reason I think if it’s plugged into the internet it will try and push the movie file through the internet as well instead of directly from the router. I’m probably wrong thinking that though...
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So i have been playing with mine over the last few days. I picked it up at the local best buy and have yet to order the ethernet adapter with the OTG cable. Its amazing PQ for sure. I pimped it the heck out with the youtube 4k app and some other sideloads and i am really impressed. Over wifi it struggled to play some of my uncompressed blurays, which was expected.
I feel the PQ is better than the Shield, but it could be my brain deceiving me..
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Thanks Troggy, router sounds like the best option. Any router recommendations? Just ordered 2 fire sticks 4ks from amazon. Still need the better gigabit Ethernet adapters and I believe micro to standard USB adapters? As long as it can handle usb3 I should be okay right?