Home Movies on my Hisense 65Q8 Smart TV

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I am trying to watch some home movies (Plex server on my Windows 11 pc) with my Hisense 65Q8 smart TV. The devices are ethernet connected via my router (TP-Link Archer VR600v).

I have no problems watching 4K streaming movies, but the home movies are almost always experiencing prolonged buffering.

A bit of research has found that most ethernet ports on smart TVs are restricted to 100Mbps, which should be fine for compressed 4K movies (e.g. for Netflix), but higher bit rates create buffering.
I bought a Cable Matters USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter, but Plex or the TV doesn’t accept the data via the USB port. I know the USB ports are only 2.0, but they would still be faster than the throttled ethernet port.

Any ideas?

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If it can’t be done have you just tried using Wi-fi?

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This is the you tube video that inspired me to try - without any luck so far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ7MhAZfykI

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Did you see the post in the thread I linked?

The default for you USB on the tv is probably set to charging.

That guy had to enable developer options and switch the USB from charging to ethernet

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Not sure how to do that.
I’ll see if I can find some information.
Thanks.

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That was for an Android OS.
My Hisense has a VIDAA 4 operating syatem.

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rndlud

I tried FIVE different adapters till I found the one. Thank God Amazon has a good return policy. The adapter for the Hisense U8H is Cable Matters USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. Btw, idk if it matters, but I enabled developer options on my TV and switched my USB setting from “charging” to “ethernet”.

Are you saying that model uses a totally different OS? Sorry I didn’t know that

If it doesn’t work no matter what you try there’s only a few options

  • Wi-fi

  • Encoding the videos with something like Handbrake to lower the bitrate

  • Investing in a more capable device like a Nvidia Shield

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If I can’t change the USB settings with VIDAA, then I’ll probably put all my home videos on a portable hard drive.
I already have a heap of downloaded movies on a portable HD that I plug into one of the USB 2.0 ports, and they work fine.

I have just finished spending weeks on my home videos, restoring and enhancing using avidemux, Handbrake and Topaz Video AI, and I don’t feel like re-doing all those videos again.
My obvious fault was that, at the time, I didn’t realize the importance of bitrate when streaming the videos.

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