Plex on Amazon Fire tablet (7 2015) Choppy playback!

Hi sorry for posting this for the third time. I wouldn’t normally but with a sulking 7yr old…

Hi,

Why is it the Plex app for Amazon is so awful? If I have the setting that uses android media player ticked, the videos look and sound perfect but start and stop so much the video is unwatchable. If it is un-ticked, the video is out of sync with sound and the image grainy!

I have tried both the amazon version and the play store version but both are the same.
Am I missing something here?

I have a hudl 2 with plex on it and it works perfectly with no issues at all. Surely Amazon hasn’t changed Android that much and even if they have, shouldn’t plex from amazon store work perfectly on a Fire tablet???

I have streaming set to original, fibre broadband and it doesn’t make a difference if I’m in the local network or away.

I am loosing my mind with this as the tablet in question is my son’s and he won’t leave me alone until I fix it.
Please help!

Thanks.

You are not alone: https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/212178/choppy-video-playback-kindle-fire-hdx-7#latest

What OS are you running? If the Fire device has updated to OS5, you do not want to “use Android Media Player” option enabled. That is only for pre OS5.