picture!!!

[Marcus1183]

I've installed the epg ninja on my fire stick and got it to work with the channels but for some reason the picture is very choppy...its not buffering but just looks choppy it's not running smoothly...does anyone know what issue can be?....thanks!

[wickedjoker]

There is a incompatibility issue with the acceleration. Go under settings then video make sure you have expert selected at the top then under acceleration make sure to turn off any hardware acceleration.

[rajarani]

do check acceleration, it would result into freezing and buffering issue , the streams are in low quality too, also this seems to be a issue with how the streams are encoded.
You will also notice the sound volume going up and down. Hopefully we go back to HD streams.

[Marcus1183]

thanks got it

[quique18]

I am having the same issue with the choppy video on a Fire Stick and turning off the hardware acceleration did not fix the problem. Any other reason why this would happen? It happens on movie channels, sports channels, seems like on every channel. I am running KODI 16.0 Jarvis. Thanks in advance.

[caribchief]

Simple solution....go back to Kodi 15.2 until video issues are sorted out in future releases. Disabling hardware acceleration helps somewhat but the overall picture is still not clean and smooth. Not to mention you would have to re enable hardware acceleration if you were to play any video addons as you may get slow video resulting in audio sync issues.

[aCiDjEsUs]

If you're using AFTV 2nd gen, for HD channels (USA channels, ESPN US..) you need to TURN ON the hardware acceleration for smooth viewing results, but for the SD channels hardware acceleration should remain off.

[quique18]

so its necessary to constantly be switching back and forth in the hardware acceleration?

[andkaal]

Hope they can fix this problem. Noticed it last night on CNN (slight buffering)... Great picture on rocket with the 3 new HD channels. Keep it up rocket, and please add more HD channels.;) andkaal

[daddyrat50]

From my expereince, i am guessing you are using kodi 16, revert back to 15.2 and it will solve that problem, to further solve your problem i would use stb emulator that works so much better on amazon fire sticks.

[quique18]

I have tried the stb emulator on the fire stick and everytime you restart the stick stb emulator asks for registration information, do you have a workaround for this?

[aCiDjEsUs]

so its necessary to constantly be switching back and forth in the hardware acceleration?

To be honest I really rarely watched those channels but if I do want to watch them I'll just go to my other room where I use raspberry pi 2 instead of AFTV and all is well, no messing around with settings etc.
I just thought it would be helpful for people to be informed about the issue with AFTV hardware acceleration.

I hope they'll fix that in the future (hardware acceleration on AFTV with Kodi)

[daddyrat50]

I have tried the stb emulator on the fire stick and everytime you restart the stick stb emulator asks for registration information, do you have a workaround for this? Up grade to version 07 14 01 generic stb from google playstore.

[jakomo77]

I am on 16.1 version and enabling the Expert settings not bring up the video acceleration menu under settings>Video.

Can someone point me out where is it in the 16.1?

Thanks

[jakomo77]

Nevermind toggled again between options and found it