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I have stuttering issues with Silverlight 5 in Netflix, especially after Silverlight updates. I figured out that it is a combination of settings and the video card driver being used. Silverlight does not play nice with HD or 3dp video card drivers. Try these steps if your video in Silverlight seems choppy, stutters, audio gets off, or the image looks like it is behind a pane of non-glare glass.
If all else fails, try to install a slightly older video card driver and make sure the one you have is for the exact model card you are using. If the driver is compatible but not exact Silverlight will not always play smoothly on XP or Vista systems.
Good Luck, I wish you well, as SIlverlight is just a huge resource hog with older computers. It loves to steal all of your cpu, since Microsoft refuses to fix the hardware decoding/acceleration issue.
Maybe your connection is not good enough for HD streaming.If that is the case, on the video page (example page for Under the Dome), click on "Also available in Standard Definition" to switch to standard definition and it should play smoothly.
I know this won't be a popular answer but I was having the same problems watching Amazon videos in the Chrome browser. Since I was using a Windows machine, I just started watching in Internet Explorer and it worked just fine. It would appear that Silverlight is optimized for Explorer.
I was watching Amazon videos HD Silverlight on Google Chrome. I started having long buffering time, choppy speech and other annoying things like mentioned in your question. I downloaded Mozilla Firefox, which was a very quick install, and now watch my Amazon videos there in HD Silverlight. Try it, it might work for you and it is quick and easy.
Since 14.5.1I'm noticing that previously silky smooth playback of iTunes streams, Netflix, BBC iPlayer etc are now 'stuttering' for a few seconds at a time. Very distracting. I'm sure it's not a content problem as the same films / shows play fine on my MacBook, Apple TV etc. and my broadband speed is excellent.
Thank you for posting in the Apple Support Communities. We understand that video playback stutters in multiple apps on your iPhone, but the issue doesn't happen on your other devices connected to the same network. We're here for you.
I am also having the same issue on any video app. I have tried resetting all settings. Looks like auto brightness turning off works in this case. But this is such a bummer from Apple. I hope they will fix this soon.
Because of this stuttering problem I am watching Netflix movies on my old Samsung phone. This problem has been here since I got my 12 mini. It has been months now. No solution yet. What a shame for Apple.
I am shocked to see that this issue still hasn't been resolved in iOS 15. The video playback is so choppy on my 12Promax. Infact why isn't anyone raising this issue except this forum. Apple needs to fix this or maybe they really do try to slow phones down. Even a 100$ phone can play smoother videos than my phone. A simple software fix will remove this issue.
Did you turn off the auto brightness under Settings > Accessibility? When I first tried to turn off auto brightness, I went to Settings> Brightness and it didn't work. When I turned it off under Accessibility, it worked.
whenever I go to watch something the quality is either bad (360p) or it constantly lags, for netflix, prime or any other online video streaming. I did a wifi speed check and my wifi speed is fast. I tried reseting and shutting down my mackbook. this has been happening for the past couple of weeks not since I got my laptop.
Your wi-fi speed test (if using speedtest.net or speedof.me) is to a predefined server, not to the video source's site, nor does it incorporate the random effects of streaming content. The network traffic bandwidth and latency between you and that video source site may be abysmal despite what a speed test may indicate.
The content on that site has its 360/480/720/etc p set there and it is not changed by video streaming though may be reduced by the streaming package type you have subscribed too. I subscribe to netflix standard resolution, but my Apple TV 4K upscales that content to 4K.
I'm bumping this thread again. It happened to me just now & I'm unable to get it to stop. So essentially the Tivo client, which is the only one having this issue, is having super choppy playback. I click into a recording or live channel, the stream hangs for a second, audio comes in first, then video starts playing. Now the audio and video are out of sync and the video definitely appears to be missing frames, so the playback is really choppy.
Have you tried with software decoding enabled. TiVo messed up hardware decoding in a previous firmware update. In my personal experience, even though TiVo has stated they fixed the issue with the decoder, it is still not quite as good as it when with the initial firmware.
I've tried clearing cache, clearing data, rebooting the Tivo Stream and nothing corrects the issue for me. I also tried rebooting the Channels DVR. I see it both on watching something streaming live (pluto or TVE) or watching something recorded.
Yes, Rebooting the Tivo has yielded no results. I do have surround sound turned off in the Tivo device settings. Do you think that would cause an issue? I'll turn it back on and see if that changes things. One thing to note, is other apps, hulu, Xfinity Stream, youtube, etc... all work when channels is having the issue. Screenshot_20210406-20093819201080 72.5 KB
Happens to my TS4K also. I have a Nvidia Shield & CCGTV and this doesn't happen to them. Only solution I found to fix this problem in TS4K is to uninstall the Channels app and re-install in. That usually fixes the problem but it's a pain to do it every time the choppy playback occurs.
It did, but, I'm having an issue with my RPi Channels DVR hardware now. I'm going to need to rebuild it it looks like. I was frustrated and power cycled the RPi instead of doing a reboot/shutdown like I should've from the admin interface and it looks like something got corrupted in the exfat DVR partition and it won't mount properly. I followed some of the troubleshooting you had shared previously around this and it fails the fsck step. Me trying to fix it with other tools, made it worse because those tools didn't understand the squashfs partitions, so it looks like I'll have to start over. I'm going to rebuild everything and then get it back connected to the network, see if I can get the stuttering to happen again and then try resubmitting the logs.
I just did this and that did clear it up, but like you say, what a pain to have to do that every time it starts being choppy. Hopefully the team has some better options fingers crossed. Thanks for the suggestion!
I took the time the other day to set up client settings from the server. So now all my settings stay the same even with an uninstall/reinstall. It makes things more bearable, I'm hopeful that a fix will be found.
@tmm1 any luck taking a look at the logs that I shared last week? I've had to uninstall and reinstall the channels app twice this week to "fix" the choppy playback. It would be really nice to not have to do that since the TiVo Stream is my primary device to watch Channels DVR on. Thanks!
I just bought and installed Total Security 2016. In the past I had Total Security versions 2013, 2014, and 2015. Each time I use the proper removal tool to uninstall the previous version then install the latest one. The computer I install these on has been the same.
Now that I'm on TS 2016 I notice diminished performance in gaming and during video playback. While playing a video game and beginning a stream frame-rate plummets from an average 120-160fps to 40-50fps and stream playback becomes choppy and audio/video slows down, something I've never seen before. Once the stream has buffered fps stabilizes but at diminished rate.
I don't have much basis to place blame at TS 2016 other than the fact that these issues presented immediately after installing TS 2016 and absolutely no other changes to my system have been made otherwise. I've also been playing the same video games simultaneous while watching same streaming services without any problem with any of the previous versions. The only thing I did different with TS 2016 was to install it on my System Drive (C:) which is an SDD as opposed to a secondary non-system HDD which is where I installed the previous versions.
There is a /index.php?showtopic=68902" rel="">known issue that can cause the entire computer to lag while certain network data is being transferred (such as streaming video). If you are experiencing this, turning off the "Block port scans in the network" option in the firewall module should instantly fix it
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