Newest Fire TV hardare - live TV freezes

[Spames 2]

I have the newest FireTV, as well as the previous FireTV.  The previous gen (much bigger box, built-in ethernet) works 100% perfect with liveTV.  This new one locks up unless I set a max bitrate of 20 MB.

 

I have the wired ethernet adapter for it.  Watched a movie last night and it seemed to playback just fine. 

 

Overall not impressed with the new FireTV, wish I could find another previous gen one and return this thing. 

 

 

[ebr 16176]

Hi.  The Fire TV specs only say it will support 21Mb/s content and I do believe the new box is not quite as powerful as the old one.

 

If you set the app bitrate to "Auto" it should stay within the above spec.

[Spames 2]

This new one I have says..  "2160p, 1080p, and 720p up to 60 fps" --

 

When I'm looking at the server dashboard around the time of a freeze, it does show that the fps is usually well over 60, sometimes around 90?

 

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[Luke 42078]

When I'm looking at the server dashboard around the time of a freeze, it does show that the fps is usually well over 60, sometimes around 90?

 

hi @@Spames, that is different. best thing to do is attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. thanks.

[ebr 16176]

I think we already have the answer.  The device is simply not capable of handling bitrates over 20Mb/s.

[Spames 2]

It seems to be working OK today after we had a power failure. 

 

I have both Fire TV's on and they appear to be locked in at 60fps.

[ebr 16176]

It seems to be working OK today after we had a power failure. 

 

I have both Fire TV's on and they appear to be locked in at 60fps.

 

That is a transcoding speed and not really related to the bitrate.  I think as long as you keep the device setting at 20 you will be fine.

[Spames 2]

Both of my FireTV's are now transcoding live TV.   I'm discovering that my server based on AMD A6-5400K Trinity Dual-Core 3.6 GHz Socket FM2 65W AD540KOKHJBOX Desktop APU can't handle it.

 

In the server overview, it's saying the container, audio, and video are unsupported as the reason for transcoding.  

 

I really thought these FireTV's were the way to go at first, but now I'm not so sure.  Would installing Kodi and using that instead of FireTV app be any better?

 

 

 

[Spames 2]

Upgraded server to 3.2.60 and we're direct streaming on both FireTV's again.  Early Christmas gift I suppose!