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Help me understand my bottleneck (self.raspberrypi)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by madcaesar to c/[email protected]

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I'm running a raspberry pi 8GB version, as my plex entertainment center. I also ruin a pihole. The pie has an Ethernet connection.

I have two TV'S, a 2017 Samsung and a 2021 Hisense. Both with Ethernet connections.

My Samsung tv can't stream certain shows at all, they stutter like crazy I'm guessing it has something to do with the encoders? Yesterday I got a message color range not supported whatever the hell that is.

The Hisense TV does better on some shows, but still 4k content is unwatchable, it's constantly buffering.

So, is the problem with the pi? Is it not powerful enough for 4k shows, or some encoding problem or something?

Or is it the TVS, should I buy a Roku box instead, would that solve the streaming problems?

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[–] NameTaken 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've seen this issue come up often. Do not use the ethernet connections on the TV as they are frequently 100mbit even on brand new TVs and mostly likely the source of your bottleneck. Either use the wifi or as some suggested an Nvidia shield and hook that up to Ethernet.

[–] madcaesar 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait what do mean? The Ethernet is slower than WiFi on the tv?

[–] NameTaken 1 points 1 year ago

Yep alot slower. You can Google it but you aren't the first person to have this problem.