Bad video playing using MK908 II via ethernet

[rayf]

Hi,
I just got my MK908 II.

I have the latest Android ver: 4.2.2

I connected to the usb port a powered usb-hub.

To the usb-hub I connected air mouse/keyboard + Ethernet adapter.

I am connected to my local home network successfully.

I tried locally to watch 1080p movie which is shared among other computer(while being connected to lan).

I had terrible skips/legs.

I tried couple of players(mx player, Archos video player, etc..)

also followed the youtube tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j5Z...o&noredirect=1

in order to install all the codecs.


How come I have such a bad watching quality? what am I missing?

Thanks,
ray.

[sketchman]

I have this issue too with the latest firmware but on the 908 v5. Whether wifi or ethernet I get super slow speeds, and constant connection drops. For instance I open the file in the player and can watch the connection info in the filezilla server interface. I never get more than 800kB/s when I can transfer between any other 2 PCs on the network at 30MB/s+.

Even a 720p video will only go so long until it stops dead and won't restart without exiting the player and starting over again.

To be thorough I just hooked the same USB ethernet 10/100 adapter up to a WinXP machine. I get between 12 and 16MB/s and no drops. Same file, same network. There is something wrong here.

Oh, and I've tried 3 different adapters. None fix it.

[dv8ed]

Hi,
I just got my MK908 II.

How come I have such a bad watching quality? what am I missing?

Thanks,
ray.

I just got my Tronsmart MK908II from GeekBuying off Amazon it had latest firmware from factory video was not smooth either so I flashed Finless 1.5a ROM plays smooth plus HDMI passthrough DTS to receiver works as well. There are some faint audio glitches but I believe that has something to do with kernel running at 1.6GHz when my actual stick has a Rockchip 3188-T 1.4GHz chip inside. Hopefully Finless will do a ROM fix later. See this thread about Rockchip 3188-T discussion.

[rayf]

I dont understand how come when you buy such product the mandatory thing you expecting is to have a smooth watch while playing ethernet while in all parallel products this is expected.

Now I need to install the rom in order to have a better watching?
thanks.

[sketchman]

I've given up on them. I've been through 3 sticks now. None have been quite what was advertised and none delivered long term stability (or stability at all in 2 cases) nor have flashing many roms on 2 of them helped.

For a time buying from places like geekbuying or the like got you what you paid for, but it seems now they can't even guarantee what they're selling.

I'm going Minix. The X7 Mini is ~$100 on Amazon.com, and now has custom firmware support too, if I end up needing it.

[rayf]

I've given up on them. I've been through 3 sticks now. None have been quite what was advertised and none delivered long term stability (or stability at all in 2 cases) nor have flashing many roms on 2 of them helped.

For a time buying from places like geekbuying or the like got you what you paid for, but it seems now they can't even guarantee what they're selling.

I'm going Minix. The X7 Mini is ~$100 on Amazon.com, and now has custom firmware support too, if I end up needing it.

So I should drop this one? I mean - watching movies via LAN, that's the most mandatory thing.