Android app slow to start playing all video types

[csjjpm 5]

Hi,

  I am not sure if I have changed a setting on my server but playback on Android tablets and phones, on the home network and away from home on internet is very slow to start.  It is a server setting as it happens for all user names.  It is NOT an issue for laptop or ROKU TV playback.  If I play the files through other media servers like Plex they play instantly or from a local network mount with VLC.

Depending on the video type it can take 10 seconds for MP4 to upto 30+ seconds for a MKV.  I am running a Truecharts on my TrueNas server.

I do not get any buffering once it starts.

Is there some way I can test or reset server playback settings to improve the playback start time?

Thanks

Paul

[csjjpm 5]

I have just found the earlier post someone said the issue was caused by Cloudflare.  I don't want to remove Cloudflare.  I'll look at the post about comparing reverse proxy settings

[Luke 42077]

9 hours ago, csjjpm said:

I have just found the earlier post someone said the issue was caused by Cloudflare.  I don't want to remove Cloudflare.  I'll look at the post about comparing reverse proxy settings

Hi, please let us know what you find. Thanks.

[csjjpm 5]

I put the bypass rules in for all emby stuff and it works super fast now

 

emby.mydomain.net/*

Cache Level: Bypass

[turpentine 17]

cloudflare, is not always the devil, i had an issue on some devices like google tv devices, and the fault was WPA3 not cloudflare.

or at least wpa 2 wifi is faster than WPA3 through cloudflare proxies, in term of faster SSL negociation

some cheap tv or google tv box have bad slow wifi chips.

i forced my internet box provider to use only WPA2 and not propose any WPA3.

Edited September 22, 2025 by turpentine