Emby clients pausing/buffering too often - Clients need bigger buffers

[strichmo 21]

2 hours ago, Luke said:

Like I said on android, apple and windows yes we can, and we already have the middleware to do that. You can't build your own middleware though for browser based playback. Every library that you see out there is ultimately just based on the html video element.

I actually don't know what platform it is the household that had the poor connection was for me - It wasn't a good TV but afaik it was an Android TV. If so, it would have been extremely useful to be able to play with the buffer length which you say is actually possible to expose. In my case, I have high confidence it would have done a lot to work around the poor internet quality.

[ebr 16169]

6 hours ago, strichmo said:

I actually don't know what platform it is the household that had the poor connection was for me - It wasn't a good TV but afaik it was an Android TV. If so, it would have been extremely useful to be able to play with the buffer length which you say is actually possible to expose. In my case, I have high confidence it would have done a lot to work around the poor internet quality.

Hi.  As I said previously, we did try this a while back.  What happened was it didn't really help most playback but a lot of people had system crashes because of increasing their buffer size.

[scott46953 30]

I can't say I have noticed older Roku TVs that people think are smart, they have very slow chips, example I had to lower the quality down to 10 or less so that the channels would play. When it was set to a higher setting example 30 or Auto, it tried to send 20 MB to the TV and it just showed a blank black screen and sometimes with the circle going around the middle.. after lowering it it played without any issue. I suppose with some Android TVs that have older slow chips this could also be the same possibility. I ran across some really really slow TVs before that took several minutes just to play and then sit there and stuttered.  On those particular TVs, I just don't see any need to use the smarts of those devices. Every single one that was ran into that had those issues the person ended up getting a cheap Roku stick and the problem was solved. I only say Roku stick because they're cheap and a lot of people are cheap. I highly recommend at least a newer version 4K fire stick with voice remote. But if somebody wants the best box for the job I always recommend Nvidia streaming box. The Nvidia has solved a lot of buffer issues with several people. It is super fast, it has a lot of graphic cores and has some really good upscaling ability. My favorite is the AI upscaling. It can take a 480 or a 720 picture and upscale it. Everybody that has gotten the Nvidia box has been very happy with it no complaints. In fact they just updated it a few weeks ago.

[ebr 16169]

14 hours ago, scott46953 said:

I highly recommend at least a newer version 4K fire stick

But I would avoid the really new, cheap ones running the new OS at this time.

[scott46953 30]

22 minutes ago, ebr said:

But I would avoid the really new, cheap ones running the new OS at this time.

Yeah I forgot I read about that, they are blocking a lot of apps that are supporting illegal activities.  However I don't see them blocking emby.. I would have to read the information over again, I was so discouraged in kind of pissy of Amazon doing such a thing,, but maybe that's the step that Nvidia needs to take the lead on their streaming box. If the new Amazon stick is Amazon based it's just a matter of time before somebody finds a workaround, if it's not android-based and it has its own operating system, then emby would have to be compiled for that, it would go into a submission waiting line to be approved before it gets released on the download channel. However that's for another topic. If we don't need anything further on this topic and maybe it's time to close this one.

Edited December 16, 2025 by scott46953