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Hehe - you spotted it :-)
In fact before I used the FireTV I invested roughly 8 years of my life into the Linux platform, e.g. VAAPI with their hw deinterlacers mcdi, madi, etc. and perfect PTS to Display. I chose those samples - and yeah quality wise on a high level :-) VAAPI and the Renderer rocks more. You can see that with "scrolling text" in news channels - a very, very tiny stutter ... but that's the same on shield and every other Android device - so judge with your own eyes.
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What's the android HW issue?
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Just updated and so far so good, probably psychosomatic but it seems to be running much speedier. Could all be in my mind but definitely seems snappier. Time to finally update Kodi.
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Hi,
I am using fritschfiretv 18.8. I am having buffering issues with files that are using True HD audio and DTS-HD. I am using an older vizio tv with optical out with a 2.1 vizio sound bar. The tv has dolby digital and pcm audio selections. The sound bar will do dolby digital. I have pass thru enabled with dolby digital enabled. I have tried numerous combo. I am 5ghz wireless. I have the firestick 4k set to dolby digital.
When I hook up my older non 4k firestick to the same tv and soundbar the files play with no issue.
Also if I run the files thru handbrake with the amazon setting and go to AC3 I have no issues.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Can you post a sample of such a file? Just long enough so that I can try to reproduce the stuter.
With my files I tried (speakers 2.0 AC3 enable and Dolby Transcoding enabled) so that DTS-HD-MA and TrueHD is transcoded to AC3. I don't have any buffering.
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