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Kodi on 4k Fire Stick Max
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If the MediaInfo data you've posted is accurate, then on the face of it there's nothing about either of those files which should prove even remotely challenging to a Fire Stick of any generation. In fact, the bitrates are rather low for 1080p AVC files, so I doubt if the "high quality" issue you mention is a factor.
I notice that the Aliens file has a higher bitrate than Poor Things, albeit still quite low - have you ruled out possible network problems as a limiting factor? Otherwise, my guess is that the troublesome files are corrupted somehow and Kodi itself is barfing on them for this or some other reason.
Unless you're absolutely wedded to the Kodi interface(s), if I were you I'd do as suggested above and install Plex or Jellyfin server on your PC and the corresponding client on the Fire Stick, which IMO makes for a nicer user experience than Kodi/SMB in any case. If the files can't be played directly they'll be transcoded on the fly (with the reason for the transcode), although obviously that will reduce the video quality still further. If they still won't play at all, perhaps you could, errmm, acquire an alternative encoding and see if the problem persists.
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Just to say that my Fire Stick 4K Max is working no problems playing any type of video from my NAS on Kodi 19.4 Matrix, sometimes you have to go backwards.
Soldato
I was going to suggest network. Is the PC hardwired or on Wireless? If on wireless you're asking for a world of trouble there as there are so many links in that chain that could fail. If wired do a speedtest in network settings for the Fire Stick and see what it's coming back with. Also stick VLC or MX player on your firestick and play the file via that to see how it plays.
I got an ethernet adapter for my Fire Stick Max and streaming wouldn't work at all with it connected. It is connected via WiFi but seems to be fine.
At the moment, I have installed Plex and got that working. Finally, I can rewatch Aliens!
I much prefer Kodi's interface (or maybe I'm just so used to it). I liked the ability to change the artwork, off-set subtitles and scan certain folders with different scrapers if information isn't accurate. I'm sure these settings are probably buried somewhere. I'll just have to find it. Thanks.
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Man of Honour
I think PLEX is awful.
I'll repeat for the third time, delete KODI, go and find 19.4 and install.
See if that improves it.
Thank you. I have been looking for a link to Kodi 19.4 but have had no luck yet. Everywhere says to go to the Kodi website which only has the latest version. Is it not possible to downgrade or do I have to remove all of my history and uninstall it?
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There's a 19.4 link here:
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I have just uninstalled everything and got 19.4 (I've taken several photos to restore my wife's TV show progress!). The issue still remains unfortunately. The video stops and the sound continues for a bit and then the whole playback fails.
Man of Honour
is this with every video you try and play?
Strangely no. So I have posted an example of a film that failed (Aliens) and a film that didn't fail (Poor Things). Also TV Shows seem to be fine. Maybe it is a duration thing? I have tried converting files to mkv but that didn't work.
[EDIT] I just set the minimum and maximum SMB protocol to 3 on Kodi as I've heard that may help but it didn't.
[EDIT] I have turned off Hardware Acceleration and playback hasn't stopped yet. Fingers crossed that this has worked.
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Have you tried playing the files direct through something like VLC? If they play fine then it's not the 4k stick itself.
I've got a 4k stick at home and don't have any issues other than playing av1 which doesn't look to be supported. I use Jellyfin media server rather than Kodi though.
I've got a 4k stick at home and don't have any issues other than playing av1 which doesn't look to be supported. I use Jellyfin media server rather than Kodi though.
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Bought one of those amlogic boxes and SD card?
No I haven't tried that. I just played the files on other apps fine apart from Kodi. But now Kodi seems to be working.
Kodi is now not working and I have gone off Plex. I'm not sure what the problem is. Watched a few films fine but Dumbo has just crashed.
TLDR; it seems that Kodi crashes streaming mp4 files (but if these are converted to mkv, it still crashes).
[EDIT] I have disabled hardware acceleration on Kodi which seems to have worked for now. I think I have tried this before though...
TLDR; it seems that Kodi crashes streaming mp4 files (but if these are converted to mkv, it still crashes).
[EDIT] I have disabled hardware acceleration on Kodi which seems to have worked for now. I think I have tried this before though...
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