Netflix just plain sucks on the fire

Fire is still new so I'm sure a much needed update will be available soon for apps and the fire itself.

 

First I've heard of it, but I do not have a netflix account.

 

It works fine in mine!

 

I just watched an episode of America dad and had no issue whatsoever, I am not a heavy User, but based on what I have seen, it works fine. Perhaps with a lot of use I might encounter said problems??

 

Netflix is like the weather at my house. I have an ethernet connection from my tivo to my router and get 25MB through comcast on speedtest... but still about every ten days I'll have laggy netflix for a few hours. That's just the way it is. No problems yet with nflix on the fire. If I do get a problem I won't necesarily look to the tablet first. Sometimes netflix is just choppy. Occam's razor tells me it's usually on their end, not mine.

 

a few minor similar issues here with Amazon Instant Video. Every now and then it will stop and display "Your video is loading"

 

didnt know about this. mine plays like gold. super quality and never skips.

what kind of connection kind of internet fo you have st home?

 

I watched netflix while tethered to my phone for 3 hours last night so other than the lowered quality due to going through my cell phone I thought netflix handled everything just the same as on my ipad through its 3g connection.

 

The only difference in bandwidth MIGHT be if it were HD vs Widescreen or something like that.

The encoding could affect bandwidth as well if it is different for different content.

 

I'm not saying that's it, I don't know the answer, I'm just trying to answer your question and make suggestions. I suspect it's something to do with your wi-fi. Have your tried it anywhere else?

Hell, maybe you've got a defective Fire I don't know, but if Amazon videos work and Netflix doesn't something it different in what the apps are doing. And certainly the Netflix on your PC is totally different code than the app in the fire.

Others are saying theirs works fine so it's either something with your setup (wifi, bandwidth etc.) or something's wrong with your Fire. Call Amazon, I'm sure they will try to help.

 

Work good except I sometimes get out of sync issue with.the audio.

 

I have a KF and the video gets choppy as well. My wifi connection is excellent and my speed is 35/35mbps. Everything else plays netflix perfectly (even my phone), but the KF is hit or miss. Sometimes if I remove an app, it gets better.

Here's a video: Netflix choppy on kindle fire - YouTube. Is this like everyone else with the issue?

It seems the app itself is just getting bogged down, as everything else seems snappy. Hulu plays perfectly. It's just netflix. I've tried a factory reset, an older version of the app, reboots, clearing data/cache/force-stop, etc. Nothing. Even version 1.8 didnt help.

 

What other apps do you have running in the background? Might need to clear up some memory. I don't have much issue with netflix and if I do a reboot fixes it.

 

Thanks. Clearing background processes does usually fix it.

What sucks is, if I remove all but a couple apps, it works pretty well, but then bogs down when I add more stuff. What's annoying is, my little droid phone, with tons of apps installed, runs netflix perfectly.

It makes the device seem so crippled, when it shouldn't be.

 

I've yet to have a problem with Netfix, and my girlfriend and I use it just about daily. I would run a speed test to see what you're getting in terms of bandwidth.

 

My speed on the KF is about 18mbps+ both ways. How many apps do you have installed on yours? Like I mentioned earlier, if I install a lot of apps on it, it bogs down when playing netflix. When I remove them, it plays quite a bit better.

 

If I go into Applications and bring up "All Applications", I count 130 apps. Of course, that's counting stuff like "Account and Sync Setting", "Amazon Device Client Platform", "Certificate Installer", etc.. Bringing up "Third Party Applications", I have 79 total. I'd say that's still a good number.