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Hello, I'm experiencing frequent frame drops (not stuttering) on HDR/Dolby Vision 4K content while using Jellyfin and Emby on my TCL C805 TV running Google TV (Android v12). This occurs during Direct Play and affects only HDR/Dolby Vision content—SDR and x264 content play without issues. The same problem also occurs on Netflix and other streaming apps. It seems the TV remains locked at 60Hz, causing frame drops when playing 23Hz content. Both "Enable Refresh Rate Switching" and "Match Video Resolution" settings do not appear to work correctly on this TV or Android TV platform in general. Are there any known issues or fixes for frame rate switching on TCL TVs or Android TV? This is severely affecting the viewing experience for HDR content. Any help would be appreciated. Note: If i use Kodi as external player is working fine.

I am experiencing serious frame drops on several movies when played on any of my Roku3 devices. Movies are played directly (without transcoding) but the image has little movement: it seems a sequence of stills with a lot of frames dropped in between them. Same movies play fine on Windows 8 app (direct play) and on Chrome browser (transcoded). This does not occur with all movies, so I did lots of tests to better determine the scenario (e.g.: codecs) that causes this phenomenon. The common factors to every movie with this problem are: Container: MKV Audio: AC3 AVIs with AC3 audio streams are not problem as they all get transcoded. I disabled AC3 (DD) passthrough on the Roku configuration. This setup made MKVs with AC3 audio streams to be transcoded. As they are transcoded they play fine with no jitter/frame drops. This is, though, no solution: disabling AC3 also disables DTS and thus all movies are transcoded resulting on only on 2 audio channels. I suspect this problem relates to Roku's new firmware as these movies used to play fine on same Rokus. So if anybody could just test MKVs/AC3 on a Roku and share the result it would be very good. My setup is as it follows: MB Server version: 3.0.5518.7 Roku app version: 1.87 Roku firmware version: 6.1 build 5604