Is there any way to do this? the pressing reverse and up trick doesnt work anymore since an update. Which ironically i did to try and stop the buffering which is why i want to lower the resolution in the first place.
The fire stick itself only allows 720p lowest. my tv supports this... its my internet connection that seems to wax and wane on the fire stick despite being right next to the router, possibly due to being in a building right next to another building (aka alot of units sharing likely 1 or 2 main co-ax connections from the provider). sometimes its fine, other times its so scrambled i may as well be looking at the image while swimming underwater without goggles.
Why are they anti-low resolution? amazon prime video also does not support any features to lower the resolution. it does by itself once its already lagging behind, but this is what im trying to avoid! netflix allows this, as does disney plus and likely others. why doesnt amazon? even in player the only thing you can access is actor info or subtitles. nothing at all related to actual playback. settings cog shows nothing about playback either except i think subtitles
This is annoying. anyone know of any fixes or work arounds?
only other idea i have which im not sure it would matter is trying the ethernet hookup for the fire stick, but thats money i dont have right now
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Just thought I share this with everyone. While fiddling with my Tab tonight, I accidentally clicked on Samsung's AllShare app I previously installed, but never tried.
To my surprise, the app quickly went into discovery mode and a "WDTV live" popped up among the list of supported devices. Since I was just watching a movie on my WDTV live I was first completely puzzled as to how the heck Tab found it and just for the kicks I made a connection with the WDTV live. It didn't require any passwords, numbers or anything - simply made the connection in a second or two.
A list of videos I had on the Tab showed up, I clicked one and voila! - the video soon went streaming from the Tab to my WDTV live and then to my projector screen!
After a few minutes I remembered I recently plugged into the WDTV live a WIFI USB dongle to be used with my keyboards. I had no idea that WDTV would be able to receive anything other than keyboard inputs through them, but turns out it does!
I didn't do a lot of testing, but it seems to work very well - had no problem at all streaming DIVX quality video from the tab and even managed to play one 720 movie as well as 1080. Both of them are heavily compressed, tough, so be warned. I also tried playing a h264 720 movie but it was just all black for a minute so I gave up. This is the same movie that Tab plays normally through movie app, so I'm guessing it's probably the WiFi transfer rate that's the bottleneck. Maybe it would work after enough of data was transfered, but as I said - I didn't wait too long. Photos and music work just fine.
So, there you have it, if you have WDTV live, a WIFI USB dongle and the need to stream from the Tab, you can do it without any problem!
You can also use twonky and stream you media to an xbox 360 or ps3 as well.
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Hi, I just purchased a new TF700 and have been hoping like crazy, that it does not have any of the issues some people have been running into, again with another top of the line Asus tablet. So far there are no blemishes on the screen or case, the screen fitment seems pretty good and there is no creeking of flexing when pinching or pressing on the screen. The light bleed is not crazy bad. The GPS and wifi work great. It prompted me for an OTA update shortly after turning it on, and streaming video while listening via my S10 bluetooth headset, does not cause network drop. I was just about to proclaim it as near perfect, and then I ran into this. When streaming archive video from an internet network the audio and video don't match. I can pull it up on a Galaxy SII and SIII phone running ICS on the same wifi network and it works fine. But every time I stream any of the videos from there, it is never in sync. And not all video streaming is like this. Youtube from either the app or website are in sync. And so are videos from both the Hulu and Netflix apps. I watch videos from this internet network nearly every day, and have to try to get this figured out. Does anyone have suggestions or information pertaining to this issue? Is it related to this particular processor?
Oh yeah, and it does it when using the internal speaker only too, no headset whatsoever.
Thanks,
I have more interesting details as of today. I work with someone who has an Asus tf300 tablet and I tested it today. When connected to the same wifi network, and streaming the same video from an online network, the sound and video were out of sync again on my tf700, however the tf300 was dead on. Is my only option to just exchange it and hope the next one is better? Has anyone else experienced this?
Thanks,
Bluetooth lag has been addressed here before and is likely the root of your issue. Use the search feature to do some investigative work and you'll get to the bottom of it. Here's a good thread to start at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1787662&highlight=blue+tooth
Ok thanks for the response Chief Geek, but in my case it isn't Bluetooth related, because it does it when no headset is attached, right through the factory installed speaker.
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wherestheanykey said:
Ok thanks for the response Chief Geek, but in my case it isn't Bluetooth related, because it does it when no headset is attached, right through the factory installed speaker.
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Gotcha. I stream a ton of different media from my home server to devices, to my TV via google tvbox, and to browsers outside of my network. The issue you are getting can be adjusted inside some video players by a time delay settings if it is consistant enough. If not, try playing with different file/container type comos and also different players can make a difference. Its a real PITA and happens on all my devices occasionally, even my 8 core laptop.
Chief Geek said:
Gotcha. I stream a ton of different media from my home server to devices, to my TV via google tvbox, and to browsers outside of my network. The issue you are getting can be adjusted inside some video players by a time delay settings if it is consistant enough. If not, try playing with different file/container type comos and also different players can make a difference. Its a real PITA and happens on all my devices occasionally, even my 8 core laptop.
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Yes, unfortunately this happens from within a browser, and I have tried several. I know there are no such adjustments from them. The thing that is annoying is that it happens with the Infinity every time I try it, and other Android phones and tablets seem to work fine. I just tried one of the new Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablets, and it also works good.
I tried Asus support today and they just had me reset the device and see if that would fix it. It didn't. I think the fix for me is going to be to return it and get the Note 10.1.
Hi guys,
Currently I know only of two ways to get subtitles to appear on my TV when it's connect to my TF700 via HDMI cable, and they are:
1) Disable hardware overlay via the developer's options menu, OR
2) Use software decoder instead of HW
For me, the latter option is completely useless since I'm watching 1080p files. The first option is OK but still not ideal since the image that I'd get on the TV is simply a mirror of what is on my tablet, and hence I'm not getting a full screen picture and also the quality does still suffer a bit (e.g. lags, stutters, etc.)
I've searched the net for a solution, but basically everything that I've read so far suggests one or both of the solutions that I've listed. Is there really no way to get the tablet to send the subtitles over HDMI??? I highly doubt this since whenever I first play the 1080p file, I would get a very quick glimpse of the subtitles just before it disappears entirely.
To me, this almost seems intentional, and is very frustrating...
If anyone knows of a suitable solution, I'd love to hear it.
Thanks!!!
Hey everyone. I see tons of options for streaming the display from my phone to my tv, but what about the other way around?
In my situation, I am trying to get remote play working for my PS4 to my android phone, but am encountering issues getting a Dualshock 4 controller to work properly with my phone.
If I can't get this resolved, another option would be to get a playstation TV and attach it to my bedroom tv, but it's tiny, and also about 20 feet away from the bed. Not a great option for playing games. However, if I could use the PSTV and output to my phone, that would be awesome.
Is there something that either can clone the display/sound output of a TV, or even better, something that would allow my phone to directly act as a receiver of an HDMI signal from the PSTV?
Trying to google for options leaves me empty handed because most people are concerned with outputting their phone's display to their television, and I want to go in the opposite direction.
I have the very same question
I'm curious as to why I wouldn't 've able to directly stream what is on my tv to my phone. The PS3 has a controller that works through walls from 20+ ft away, all I want to do is be able to watch through my phone when I'm outside/ in another room.
I find it mind blowing that there isn't a single answer on Google after searching for hours.
So I got my mittens on a MiStick and its fine, except some of the games don't work, and I think its because the device is detected or functions as a touchscreen device. So, as I understand it, unless a game has controller integration it won't work? Crossy Road is stuck on the age screen at the beginning and no way to input.
If anyone can enlighten me that would be great.....can this be altered so the device functions as a normal Android TV device.
Can’t help you with your problem. Just wanted to say that I’m extremely disappointed with the mi tv stick. Often I can’t boot it up and have to pull the plug, also prime video is buffering very often... my Networkspeed is very good so this is not the problem. Also it freezes sometimes without any reason and losing connection to the remote. I hope they will fix the bugs in further updates.
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Can’t help you with your problem. Just wanted to say that I’m extremely disappointed with the mi tv stick. Often I can’t boot it up and have to pull the plug, also prime video is buffering very often... my Networkspeed is very good so this is not the problem. Also it freezes sometimes without any reason and losing connection to the remote. I hope they will fix the bugs in further updates.
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Agreed that it is a bit laggy......however yesterday I managed to get Stadia working on it, and was playing Doom Eternal with no issues - however the Stadia homepage was not showing all of the content. So far I've had no issues with freezing etc, but we'll have to wait and see. I think Sabrina may be my next port of call.
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Can’t help you with your problem. Just wanted to say that I’m extremely disappointed with the mi tv stick. Often I can’t boot it up and have to pull the plug, also prime video is buffering very often... my Networkspeed is very good so this is not the problem. Also it freezes sometimes without any reason and losing connection to the remote. I hope they will fix the bugs in further updates.
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Try to replace the USB cable. I had the same symptoms, so I replaced the cable. I
Today received a new update with system stability improvements in the changelog.