roberto188 33 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Does the fire TV stick natively decode mpeg 2? In other words can live TV be streamed to it without requiring transcoding? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14949 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 The 2nd gen one should... https://developer.amazon.com/docs/fire-tv/device-specifications.html?v=ftvgen2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pir8radio 1292 Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 I'll put my issue in this topic since its so broad lol.... I've been noticing non-network related pauses (very short glitches using MPV) zero issues when forced transcoding. Only during direct streaming. In the same house at the same time firetv is just fine... Which is strange, I don't know what the differences are but something is strange. Hardware is Nvidia shield. If I pause the stream for a few mins, it seems to help, so I feel like its a buffering issue, that is not enough buffer.. Its not network speed, both hardwired, again firetv is fine, speedtest to my server is fine as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14949 Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 I'll put my issue in this topic since its so broad lol.... I've been noticing non-network related pauses (very short glitches using MPV) zero issues when forced transcoding. Only during direct streaming. In the same house at the same time firetv is just fine... Which is strange, I don't know what the differences are but something is strange. Hardware is Nvidia shield. If I pause the stream for a few mins, it seems to help, so I feel like its a buffering issue, that is not enough buffer.. Its not network speed, both hardwired, again firetv is fine, speedtest to my server is fine as well. Just for grins, try running the Shield wireless... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pir8radio 1292 Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Just for grins, try running the Shield wireless... will do, Ill set it up today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pir8radio 1292 Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 (edited) Just for grins, try running the Shield wireless... I forgot to respond, thought i did lol... Wireless works! I tried 4k videos and i was getting pauses, on wired connection, changed to wireless and issues went away... Seems opposite, why is that? Edited November 14, 2018 by pir8radio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14949 Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 I forgot to respond, thought i did lol... Wireless works! I tried 4k videos and i was getting pauses, on wired connection, changed to wireless and issues went away... Sees opposite, why is that? These devices are run wireless by probably 90% of users so that's how the thing is designed and tested is my guess. Theoretically, wired should be faster but that depends on a lot of assumptions about exactly how that interface is implemented as well as the wiring and other factors. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammy 738 Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 Interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pir8radio 1292 Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Interesting. yea..... I mean if it was someone else i would have said something was messed up with their wired network... but my multiple wireless AP's are attached to the wired network, all to a core gigabit managed switch. I used a netprobe 2000 to speedtest all of my connections when i ran them lol.. So I know it's the nvidia shield. very strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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