2025-02-05, 07:22 PM
(2025-02-05, 06:56 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: Negatory. What you've described is the only way I am aware of. What kind of Fire TV is this and what resolution is the video?
It would have to be a pretty old FireTV to not support HEVC.
When you play this file in other devices, are they also direct playing there? Or are they transcoding or remuxing?
Thanks for the response, The TV is a JVC Fire TV, not very old at all, 6 months at most.
Spec of problematic video is 1920 x 960, HEVC. Content bit-rate is around 900 - 1400 kb/s
It does support it (and plays), but some x265 videos, it clearly is struggling with playback and the FPS noticeably drops. This is why, I would like to set a preference for a user, or a device to transcode, regardless of the source file to get around this.
Direct play is working fine elsewhere, (on my Google Pixel 7 pro mobile, as an example) so I know the issue is not with the video, but the TV struggling with this codec.
I appreciate the response