Auto quality settings streaming more than it can handle

[teiva 18]

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Android / Nvidia shield (Andriod TV) / Chrome web browser

 

By default my android tv app has it set to "auto." Some movies are streaming at 80Mbps which causes the movie to stutter every 5 seconds. Odd enough my android phone also defaults to 80Mbps. Some movies can handle 80Mbps others cannot. Live tv channels are defaulted to 120Mbps. Has something changed with the auto-detect quality? Where do I change the default quality for all the movies per device?

[Luke 42077]

When you are inside your home network most people want to avoid transcoding, so that is why the Auto setting will produce a max value. 

 

When you are outside your home network then it will be much smaller.

[teiva 18]

...so you're saying auto just sets the max value as opposed to detecting the highest quality under the condition that a steady % of pre-buffer is maintained. Would this be difficult to implement? I would love to get to a state where someone in my home could just hit play and videos would stream without my wife or mother in-law having to fiddle with the playback correction and/or quality settings. 

Edited October 2, 2017 by teiva

[Luke 42077]

it's a possibility for the future. in the meantime all you should need to go is go grab their devices and pre-configure a suitable streaming quality.