Plex Client on Fire Stick: 6.3 (Last update 16th Nov).For the most part, the Plex Media Server experience is pretty flawless. I'm not sure what else to test, as I'm convinced this points towards an issue with the Plex Client on the Fire Stick?Īny help, advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated (as i'm likely to watch a lot of movies over Christmas!) I've just run the movie to my laptop (an 8 year old Dell Latitude!), and its smooth as silk as well. I've just done one more test whilst typing this. I'm stumped here?! It's frustrating when i've just invested in a NAS device and migrated over to Plex (from Kodi as my Media Player). This seems to point towards an issue with the Plex Client on the Fire Stick, as the NAS isnt struggling (CPU utilisation circa 15%), HW Encoding enabled when required, and I proved this works OK when i upgraded to Plex Pass for the feature, as i had a video a couple of nights ago having to do software transcoding, and the CPU was up at 98%! I then decided to try another couple of films with the same settings, one with Direct Stream again and one that had Direct Stream Video and Transcoding Audio, and i got the same result of slight stutter every 10-15 secs for about 3-4 secs each time.

I even watched my LAN Port utilisation on my NAS during the film, and it only moved between 500kbps and 1Mbps at any given time. I then tried the moving again and converted it to 720p 4Mbps and also 480p 1.5Mbps (in case its a bandwidth issue on my wifi), and it still did the same thing. I also tested by playing it on my Samsung S6 Edge Device, and again perfectly smooth playback with Home Streaming set to Maximum. The movie is a Direct Stream, so no Transcoding happening on the Server either.Īfter the film finished i decided to run a test, and i installed VLC player on my Fire Stick and the result. This isnt the issue, as i have Refresh Rate ON, so the TV changes to 24Hz when i start the movie. Watching a film tonight and every 10-15 secs, i would get 3-4 secs of slight stutter on the playback, almost like the refresh rate of the file was different to the Display Device (55' Samsung TV). I'm convinced this is actually an issue with the Plex Client for the Fire Stick, but seeing as i'm serving my content from a QNAP NAS, I thought i would post here in case anyone had any ideas (also posted on the plex forum).Ĭonnected via a 5GHz Wifi Connection (10ft from Router).

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