Universal Android app vs. AndroidTV app

[Tom_S 2]

I've used both. Emby for Android TV isn't very good. Horrible if you want to play a long playlist. Dies after a few songs where emby for Android keeps playing and shows through the screen saver. Way better

[igrgic 0]

Unfortunately it is not compatible with my device. SONY KD 65x89j, CPU: ARM Cortex-A73

[NeverReadyEddie 2]

I have noticed a micro stutter in the Emby Android app on my Nvidia Shield TV. I have a feeling this is the same one I was trying to escape on the Plex app you can see documented extensively in the thread below. In the end it was theorised to be something embedded in the ExoPlayer version that was rolled into Plex after version 9.28. In Emby I can see the exact same issue; a micro stutter that appears only after a little while, maybe 20 minutes of watching and its really almost imperceptible. Like the video skipping a frame but no audio glitch to go with it. It happens in all kinds of formats and in Plex where the recent version had the nerd stats show the number of dropped frames, it would not even show as one. You could see frame skips but the stats showed zero dropped frames. Maybe a screen matching bug but the TV absolutely changes to 24p on playback. I've checked it.

The interesting part is the old Emby Android TV app does not suffer from this micro stutter so perhaps its the dreaded ExoPlayer version update in the Android app that is the cause.

If it is an ExoPlayer + the Nvidia Shield issue, there is nothing Emby can do about it just like Plex could not without rolling back ExoPlayer versions and never updating it again which is not practical.

https://forums.plex.tv/t/recent-update-causes-stutters-and-audio-sync-issues/851641/

Edited July 29, 2025 by NeverReadyEddie

[Luke 42077]

For video stuttering, please try Emby for Android 3.5.25 and let us know how that compares:

https://emby.media/emby-for-android.html

Thanks.