Okay not stutter, but 1-5 second pauses.
I would take stuttering as complete video playing, but with “choppy” frame rate.
“Buffering” would be pauses of 1-5 seconds before playing for 30 seconds then buffering again.
However, here are the specs.
Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2630 v2 @ 2.60GHz
48 GB Multi-bit ECC
56TBs (about 27TBs free)
Unraid.
When transcoding, it is transcoded its full 300 seconds ahead and is “throttled” on the transcode.
It only needs to transcode AUDIO, video is DIRECT.
Think it could be the server? I don’t
The message I get is
“Your connection to the server is not fast enough”
I feel its 1) buffer
2) shit NIC card on the TV. causing #1 to happen much more often.
EDIT:
For example. Using PLEX turned the AUDIO to AC3 or whatever, so it direct plays. Just had 30 minutes of unbuffered/pauses. Then I will get one every 5 seconds for a total of 1-2 minutes (if i am lucky). This is due to the “speed” of the NIC cards, whether its built in or wifi.
I can put my laptop next to my TV and get my MAX speed wifi. the TV will get 1/10th of that speed. The router is 6 inches away, maybe 12.
Hard wired is even LESS on the TV.
So a mix of buffer and shit NIC on the TV.
EDIT2: Possibly the ExoPlayer v2. As Plex uses that, and Kodi does not.
This is android TV, so I do not know if it is that easy to change the default player.