stutter in live tv

So I have a synology box that the server is installed on. I use a Nvidia shield to watch live tv with. Since the shield can do mpeg2 playback, the server isnt doing any encoding. This being said, after 5 to 10 mins of live tv I get a small stutter. I did some testing of my own, and set the plex server up on the shield and tried live tv there. I never saw any stutter after watching 25 mins or more.

Could there be something on the synology server that is making it stutter? I looked at the resources as it does live tv and ram and cpu are at like 6 percent.

Do you see this only with mpeg2 1080i (interlaced) channel?

If so, I don’t think this come from your syno. This is an issue on the Shield. Specifically on exoplayer. I have been dealing with this myself. It does not affect only plex, but all players using exoplayer. For watching 1080i content, I use Kodi. Kodi doesn’t suffer from this problem since it doesn’t use exoplayer. But it cannot be used yet to watch livetv from plex Kodi add on.

I don’t know who can fix that for good, probably nvidia. But I never see anybody acknowledging this issue.

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I never thought about the interlaced stuff. I guess I need to look at it a little closer to see if that is the issue.

Thanks

@rouq said:
Do you see this only with mpeg2 1080i (interlaced) channel?

If so, I don’t think this come from your syno. This is an issue on the Shield. Specifically on exoplayer. I have been dealing with this myself. It does not affect only plex, but all players using exoplayer. For watching 1080i content, I use Kodi. Kodi doesn’t suffer from this problem since it doesn’t use exoplayer. But it cannot be used yet to watch livetv from plex Kodi add on.

I don’t know who can fix that for good, probably nvidia. But I never see anybody acknowledging this issue.

I’ll second seeing the stutter on Shield for interlaced 1080i content. I ping on these forums and the the NVIDIA forums periodically, but as you said, there hasn’t been an acknowledgement of the issue in quite some time.

Manuel from the nVidia forums actually came over here a while ago and and did some debugging work, but it seems like from their perspective, the issue was resolved.

http://forums.plex.tv/discussion/289976/stuttering-on-shield-tv-after-experience-update-6-0