Wednesday, September 27, 2023

playing out 4K videos from network share on Firestick 4K - buffering

According to this video, the app to use is Network Browser, for playing out files on a Firestick from a Windows (SMB) share over the network instead of streaming or from a USB drive. 

 But unfortunately, a share from a Raspberry Pi 2, even connected via Ethernet to the Router and the Router connected via Wifi 5g to the firestick, could not send the file fast enough - Network Browser was buffering for the high bandwidth parts. Maybe I'll revisit this with a faster network share, maybe from Windows laptop? Or perhaps connect the Firestick via Ethernet using something like this?

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