eetaylog 1 Posted January 8, 2019 Author Share Posted January 8, 2019 It's a great device, but has bigger problems with hardware deinterlacing of 1080i content right now. If you are willing to wait up to 15 seconds for live tv until the Emby server does the deinterlacing for you... Can't say any word about the roku, because it's useless in germany. Cant really think of any interlaced content that i use anyway so dont think that would be a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdikland 1 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 My problem with the Firestick sound somewhat similar to what you describe. I have the Emby app on both the Firestick and a Roku 2. Both these devices are connected to the same TV via HDMI. When I watch an (old) tv show (i.e. Two and a Half Men 2007) on the Emby the motion is jumpy and at times hard on the eyes. I play the same show via Emby on the old Roku and the difference is quite noticable. Likewise, the same show played via PLEX on this Firestick is perfectly smooth. I even tried to switch the TV HDMI input between each device (i.e Fire stick to RoKU HDMI) but it made no difference. I would toss my Firestick however staying with the old Roku is not a good choice. It requires a reboot every day and even then may cause apps or vplaying videos to hang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetaylog 1 Posted January 8, 2019 Author Share Posted January 8, 2019 (edited) My problem with the Firestick sound somewhat similar to what you describe. I have the Emby app on both the Firestick and a Roku 2. Both these devices are connected to the same TV via HDMI. When I watch an (old) tv show (i.e. Two and a Half Men 2007) on the Emby the motion is jumpy and at times hard on the eyes. I play the same show via Emby on the old Roku and the difference is quite noticable. Likewise, the same show played via PLEX on this Firestick is perfectly smooth. I even tried to switch the TV HDMI input between each device (i.e Fire stick to RoKU HDMI) but it made no difference. I would toss my Firestick however staying with the old Roku is not a good choice. It requires a reboot every day and even then may cause apps or vplaying videos to hang. Do you mean that watching via plex on the ROKU is perfectly smooth? Otherwise what youre saying is that watching the show via emby and then via plex (both on the firestick) shows a difference in quality. Which would point to emby being the issue, not the firestick. Edited January 8, 2019 by eetaylog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdikland 1 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Do you mean that watching via plex on the ROKU is perfectly smooth? Nope. Plex on Firestick works fine. Emby on Roku works fine. Emby on Firestick does not work as well. Plex on Roku, since the last Plex update, is pretty much unusable on my Roku 2. Afther this update I (and many others) started looking for alternatives and were pointed here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetaylog 1 Posted January 8, 2019 Author Share Posted January 8, 2019 Nope. Plex on Firestick works fine. Emby on Roku works fine. Emby on Firestick does not work as well. Plex on Roku, since the last Plex update, is pretty much unusable on my Roku 2. Afther this update I (and many others) started looking for alternatives and were pointed here. Does plex on Firestick have a refresh rate changer in its settings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 What model firestick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14913 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 If it is at least a gen 2 you may want to try this with the latest beta of the Fire TV app. Be sure to follow the instructions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetaylog 1 Posted January 8, 2019 Author Share Posted January 8, 2019 (edited) If it is at least a gen 2 you may want to try this with the latest beta of the Fire TV app. Be sure to follow the instructions. My TV is running android 7.0. Am I able to run the beta on it? I've signed up via the link above. Edited January 8, 2019 by eetaylog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14913 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 My TV is running android 7.0. Am I able to run the beta on it? I've signed up via the link above. Yes you can run the beta. Whether or not your TV supports the frame rate switching, I don't know. If so, you will see options to change the display mode in the OSD menu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetaylog 1 Posted January 8, 2019 Author Share Posted January 8, 2019 Yes you can run the beta. Whether or not your TV supports the frame rate switching, I don't know. If so, you will see options to change the display mode in the OSD menu. Thanks. It should do, it used to switch nicely when running mediaportal on a Windows based nuc. I'll sign up to the firestick beta as well when I get 5 minutes. I'll pm you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14913 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Thanks. It should do, it used to switch nicely when running mediaportal on a Windows based nuc. I'll sign up to the firestick beta as well when I get 5 minutes. I'll pm you. If you are running an Android TV, you don't join the Fire beta... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetaylog 1 Posted January 8, 2019 Author Share Posted January 8, 2019 If you are running an Android TV, you don't join the Fire beta... I have 2 TVs. One has android TV (Sony kdl), the other (Panasonic lx) is running a firestick. I've signed up to the android TV beta already (pending receiving the update through the app) and will sign up for the firestick beta later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetaylog 1 Posted January 10, 2019 Author Share Posted January 10, 2019 Ok, so i may have got to the bottom of this. Im now running the beta version on my sony tv and the refresh rate switching seems to be working as panning shots are a lot smoother in certain movies. Its still not completely perfect but switching to a friends server who has a remuxed version of the same movie (bluray rip without any video compression) seems to make it run silky smooth. This would indicate that the problem was partly a frame rate mismatch, but also an issue with the encode on my movie files. I didnt realise that running a movie file through handbrake (set to RF18, Constant Framerate) would affect the actual fps the movie ran at, only the quality of the image in each frame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14913 Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Excellent. Thanks for reporting back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37064 Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Interesting, thanks for the info ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnollo 16 Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 Try kodi Leia + embycon + embuary. I'm testing it right now on a Fire HD device and playback seems smoother, with transcoding at server level turned off. Sent from my SM-A520F using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetaylog 1 Posted January 14, 2019 Author Share Posted January 14, 2019 Try kodi Leia + embycon + embuary. I'm testing it right now on a Fire HD device and playback seems smoother, with transcoding at server level turned off. Did you update krypton to Leia or did you sideload it from a repository? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnollo 16 Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 Did you update krypton to Leia or did you sideload it from a repository?- Uninstalled kripton - downloaded the latest from https://mirrors.kodi...m64-v8a/master/ using es file explorer - installed leia Sent from my SM-A520F using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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