Amazon Fire TV

Metallifux said:
No Android device can do 24p, doesn't stop you watching at 60Hz.
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Wow I'm really surprised that's an Android problem. Oh well it was only for a play anyway, will resign it to the bedroom and keep my HTPC for proper watching. Personally I find 60hz judder pretty jarring in films.
 
kinetic747 said:
Fire Stick is £25 at the moment for anyone interested. :)
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I must have added & removed one from my basket about 5 times over the last 24hours :p
Can't make my mind up if I want to buy a third one while the price has dropped..:o

I Really want another fireTV but the £25 offer there doing on the Fire stick is making it really hard to pay £79 for the fireTV
 
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For anyone experiencing stuttering / buffering on the Amazon Fire TV/Stick I've been recently experiencing issues with larger files and come up with a fool proof solution - with my hardware!

For me I've changed a couple of things.

My orignal Plex Transcoder settings were:
1) Transcoder Quality: Prefer higher speed transcoding
2) Transcoder default throttle buffer: 60 seconds (default)

I've actually found that these settings work better!
1) Transcoder Quality: Make my CPU hurt
2) Transcoder default throttle buffer: 600 seconds (10 minutes)

Additionally, I've then used a freeware app called "Process Tamer" to force the PLEX Transcoder service to always start with "high priority".

Surprisingly I've found that ONLY changing the process priority wasn't enough to completely remove the occasional buffer.

In my mind (looking at CPU utilisation) changing the transcoder to the "Make My CPU Hurt" option seems to maximise CPU usage rather than try to coast along at 20%.

It also looks like that by using increased "quality" in transcoder preferences it's taking LESS time to transcode, as it's not having to compress it at the same time.

This combined with the increased buffer length and using Process Tamer to make sure every time to transcoder process starts it's set to high priority (which it should be in my mind!) seems to iron out all my troubles.

Hopefully this will help someone.

Roy
 
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RoyMi6 said:
For anyone experiencing stuttering / buffering on the Amazon Fire TV/Stick I've been recently experiencing issues with larger files and come up with a fool proof solution - with my hardware!

For me I've changed a couple of things.

My orignal Plex Transcoder settings were:
1) Transcoder Quality: Prefer higher speed transcoding
2) Transcoder default throttle buffer: 60 seconds (default)

I've actually found that these settings work better!
1) Transcoder Quality: Make my CPU hurt
2) Transcoder default throttle buffer: 600 seconds (10 minutes)

Additionally, I've then used a freeware app called "Process Tamer" to force the PLEX Transcoder service to always start with "high priority".

Surprisingly I've found that ONLY changing the process priority wasn't enough to completely remove the occasional buffer.

In my mind (looking at CPU utilisation) changing the transcoder to the "Make My CPU Hurt" option seems to maximise CPU usage rather than try to coast along at 20%.

It also looks like that by using increased "quality" in transcoder preferences it's taking LESS time to transcode, as it's not having to compress it at the same time.

This combined with the increased buffer length and using Process Tamer to make sure every time to transcoder process starts it's set to high priority (which it should be in my mind!) seems to iron out all my troubles.

Hopefully this will help someone.

Roy
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May I ask, where are you seeing these options for the transcoding and such? I can't find them anywhere. Thanks!
 
RoyMi6 said:
For anyone experiencing stuttering / buffering on the Amazon Fire TV/Stick I've been recently experiencing issues with larger files and come up with a fool proof solution - with my hardware!

For me I've changed a couple of things.

My orignal Plex Transcoder settings were:
1) Transcoder Quality: Prefer higher speed transcoding
2) Transcoder default throttle buffer: 60 seconds (default)

I've actually found that these settings work better!
1) Transcoder Quality: Make my CPU hurt
2) Transcoder default throttle buffer: 600 seconds (10 minutes)

Additionally, I've then used a freeware app called "Process Tamer" to force the PLEX Transcoder service to always start with "high priority".

Surprisingly I've found that ONLY changing the process priority wasn't enough to completely remove the occasional buffer.

In my mind (looking at CPU utilisation) changing the transcoder to the "Make My CPU Hurt" option seems to maximise CPU usage rather than try to coast along at 20%.

It also looks like that by using increased "quality" in transcoder preferences it's taking LESS time to transcode, as it's not having to compress it at the same time.

This combined with the increased buffer length and using Process Tamer to make sure every time to transcoder process starts it's set to high priority (which it should be in my mind!) seems to iron out all my troubles.

Hopefully this will help someone.

Roy
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Why do you need to transcode?
 
Took the plunge and bought the Fire Stick on Sunday, installed all the same Apps I've got on my Fire TV including TVMC and when my eldest saw it working I had to buy another to put in her bedroom.
 
Guys, when installing Kodi, can I attach an external 1TB drive to this and have everything diaplyed the same way a PC does, with fanart and all that?

Plus, can you install genesis on it?
 
robfosters said:
Guys, when installing Kodi, can I attach an external 1TB drive to this and have everything diaplyed the same way a PC does, with fanart and all that?

Plus, can you install genesis on it?
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Genesis is a Kodi add on so of course you can. The only caveat with the drive is it has to be FAT32 meaning a 4 GB file limit. This means if you have any video files greater than 4GB you will have to split them with winrar. Kodi is smart enough to read from rars.
 
Got a Fire Tv on Thursday and have spent the weekend installing and configuring it, got Kodi 14.2 Helix installed and configured with FireStarter to auto run and double click home button to launch Kodi, Aeon Nox and with my own customs backgrounds etc, plus Genisis and Icemovies and IStream integrated and the icing on the cake... IPTV integrated into the Live TV tab complete with episode guide for something like 600+ channels, though many are foreign, I don't think my Sky box will be used much any more, plus the whole thing linked up to my Seagate Business 4 Port NAS for my own movie and TV collection and Music and pictures and FTP access...
 
Care to share (if you can?) the IPTV bit? I've got everything else sorted but haven't really explored IPTV into the Live TV tab yet.

Thanks.
 
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