Hi Guys, this is a great reddit and I really appreciate all the news and comments - thanks!
I have a question:
I have a new TCL55CU2S (UHD HDR) TV which is connected to my 1 Gbps router and Windows Home Server (HP G8 Microserver as a NAS). When loading videos/movies off the server (either SMB or NFS), I am getting lots of bufferring issues - every 1-2 minutes it stutters, lags or rebuffers. This happens irrespective of whether I use Kodi or VLC for playing the file. It's as if the TV (which has a quad core processor) is over utilised - sometimes I notice system lag.
When these issues occur, the WHS is not doing any other job (and I've checked - the CPU and Network utiliisation is low).
In short, I am fairly sure this is not a network throughput issue, but more likely a buggy OS or secondary app issue. That said, I have only just reset the whole TV to default to overcome the possibility that a sideloaded app was taxing the CPU - now it's just a cleanskin on TCLs install (which naturally contains a certain level of crapware).
Can you give me any tips on how I might start to troubleshoot this issue?
Connected how WiFi of LAN. ?
All Smart TV's have only 100Mbit LAN, and do not play well with high bitrate user content like UHD Bluray Rips.
Android TV - Smart TV's are relatively low bitrate Apps (Netflix, Prime, Youtube etc) streaming devices only.
Ones that comes with "only just good enough" Chipsets to run an unoptimised Marshmallow or Nougat OS and use those streaming Apps.
The TV manufacturers are not going to spend more than necessary.
Suggestion - Use a USB stick or hard drive to test various files and eliminate any Network issues.
Kodi only - I would not even use any Android TV device. The cheap LibreELEC boxes do a far better job.
If that still does not satisfy or work, I think you know what everyone in this Reddit is going to say to purchase .....