Choppy picture on American channels

[lilpele12]

I have a cx919-II with kodi 16 installed.
The channels in the American feed have choppy pictures... Not buffering just dropping frames. Cnn, ESPN , etc
The English channels and feeds from other addons look great. Itv,exodus etc

I pressed O during the video
You can see the number of dropped frames climb.
From what I can tell the American channels use the h264 main codec.
The English feeds use h264 constrained baseline

Is there anything I can do or install that would keep the American channels from dropping frames?

[lilpele12]

No one has trouble with this codec?
Could it be my stick?...I don't have trouble with any other channels or streams.

[pod77]

There is a sub forum for Amazon units.... Try this:
http://iptvtalk.net/showthread.php?15362-picture!!!

[lilpele12]

There is a sub forum for Amazon units.... Try this:
http://iptvtalk.net/showthread.php?15362-picture!!!

No fire stick...I have a cx919-II on kitkat
I tried disabling hardware encoding.....made everything choppy

[pod77]

Got ya I thought you meant fire stick when you said" could it be my stick" ;)

[wickedjoker]

So its just certain channels that do this? Have your tried changing the video player? Also I assume you are trying to run the box at 1080P try bringing it down to 720P on the box see if that max a difference.


POD77 It is a stick not a box unit... Should operate in principle the same way as a fire stick I'm surprised taking hardware acceleration off made it worse.

[lilpele12]

It's set to 720p
How do I change the video player.... I believe it's using the default DVD player

[wickedjoker]

you can try this..


http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Use_external_players_on_Android

[lilpele12]

Ok... I'll give Vlc a try
What protocol is live TV

[lilpele12]

Would my advanced settings.xml take affect when using an external player

[wickedjoker]

That I have no idea...

[Klikerko]

No one has trouble with this codec?
Could it be my stick?...I don't have trouble with any other channels or streams.

Have you found the solution? I have exactly the same problem on my Nexus Player and I tried everything, including advanced settings and external players file. Nothing helped. Only partial solution was to disable hardware acceleration. The stuttering on USA live TV channels would stop, but when I do that any HD movie would start stuttering badly, and live TV channels would look slightly grainy, but smooth. I'm still looking for a possible solution but most likely I'll have to order a new Android box.

[spdklls99]

I had to just give in and get a mag254 at the end of the year myself....video is pretty awesome compared to kodi and stuttering buffering dropped dramatically

[Lance989]

Have you bought the codecs from raspberry pi? That can cause chopping / dropped frames with the US streams.