Amazon Fire TV vs. Fire TV stick

[nadan]

I've owned a Fire TV stick for a while now. I run Kodi 15.2 on it with IPTV Stalker version 9.0.21. Stalker usually works fine with an occasional buffering issue her or there.

On the Black Friday deal, I bought the Fire TV box, thinking wired Internet and more RAM will make my Stalker experience even better.

Here's my issue:

I loaded Kodi 15.2 on it with the same IPTV Stalker 9.0.21. About 30-40% of the channels play fine for about 2 seconds. After 2 seconds, the video hangs completely while the audio still keeps playing. This happens every time to the same channels. Examples are CNN, Fox News, WGNTV and many others.

I've tried Kodi 16.0 beta. I've tried the previous versions of IPTV Stalker. I've tried using the advancedsettings.xml with upgraded buffer cache. No effect.

I've tried this on 2 Fire TV boxes. The stick plays fine. It's just the boxes.

I'd really appreciate if someone has any ideas on how to fix this issue.

Thanks,

-nadan

[dara]

This isn't an IPTV Stalker issue. Moved.

[Chief31]

Having same issue can any one help

[nadan]

I figured it out with help from the other thread running about this issue. Someone posted this:

In Kodi, go into settings, video settings, acceleration, disable libstagefright, disable mediacodec. It worked for me! No more freezing!