[Savetheworld88]

Hi all,

My Sony TV 43-XG8396 is dropping frames when I watch movies from external hard drive the playback is not 100% smooth, no matter which player I'm using KODI, VLC, MX Player, also Netflix and YouTube does the same thing. It's not a pattern, sometime it's working 3-4 minutes with no drop and sometime in 20 seconds drops 3-4 times. Doesn't matter if motionflow is on or off, but off is more hard to notice.
Another issues is that with aspect ratio 2.4 1 motionflow is not working at all.
I don't understand why tv channels, my google chromecast 3 and my laptop connected through HDMI is 100% smooth. I did the update to oreo, but nougat had same problems.
I have a Samsung 7122 from 2018 and I don't have any of the above issues.
I don't understand how a brand like SONY could release such a TV with to many flaws. To bad I cannot return it.
I know is not related to KODI, but maybe someone knows how to solve this issues or somehow can be solved with an addon.
I want to buy a tv box with 4k 60 hz , but i don't know if will work.
In the past two weeks I spent hours of reading threads with same issues but no one seams to have a solution, sorry for creating another thread but those were kind of old, maybe meanwhile someone solve this.

[Klojum]

Frame drops can be down to settings in the Kodi GUI, as in "Adjust display refresh rate" and/or "Sync playback to display". The first one should be on, the second one is a YMMV option: if it works for you, use it. Screen tearing (if that is what you call motion flow) is a different problem.

[Savetheworld88]

Adjust display refresh rate was set to always . I called this frame drop because i dont know how to name it but its like you are playing a game and fps are dropping from 60 to 30 for a milisecond . I will find a way to post a video in slow motion to see what i mean.