I have several external HDs with their own power supply but they all start stuttering& lagging when playing movies above 720p. Could anyone tell me what I need to look for?
I have several external HDs with their own power supply but they all start stuttering& lagging when playing movies above 720p. Could anyone tell me what I need to look for?
What are you using to play the movies? Could be the app you're using that's the issue. I have no such issues on my Skyworth Android TV box, and I play a range of items from 480p up to 1080p (don't havea 4K TV) from an external 4TB HDD, through Kodi.
I use this shared over my network connected to the USB 3.0 port on my router (WRT32X): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZTRXFBA/
Have the movie/tv collections in Kodi and sometimes use a USB flash drive with VLC. All of it is perfectly smooth at 1080p videos output to 4K with both my Shield TV and Mi Box.
I used to own an older Minix.
http://www.minix.us/products/NEOX5.html
Back then XBMC/Kodi was new, in beta and didnt handle 720p videos very well. Your media player shouldn't have this problem since its a quad core. Make sure you have the latest version of Kodi (17.6 was last week, 18 was released a few days ago) and try to replace the USB cable if your still using the one that came with the Neo U1.