2025-01-05, 04:20 PM
I'm having the issue on a shield (not pro, the tube) of stuttering or pausing when playing really high bitrate files that are transcoding. I think the transcoding part is not the issue though. Sometimes, the player starts playing the file, but then crashes and provides the message: "too many errors". I would include the androidtv crash logs, but I couldn't find any related to this time period in /var/log/jellyfin.
What I think is happening around the frequent pauses is that the androidtv player is very bursty, and tries to cache a large chunk every few seconds. It then pauses when whatever chunk it tries to chache fails for some reason. The shield is about a 3 meters away from the AP and get's about 400mbps down from my server consistently (using iperf3).
I can direct play using "Just Player" just fine, no transcoding necessary. I can also play on the jellyfin web using transcoding just fine.
What I think is happening around the frequent pauses is that the androidtv player is very bursty, and tries to cache a large chunk every few seconds. It then pauses when whatever chunk it tries to chache fails for some reason. The shield is about a 3 meters away from the AP and get's about 400mbps down from my server consistently (using iperf3).
I can direct play using "Just Player" just fine, no transcoding necessary. I can also play on the jellyfin web using transcoding just fine.