Seems like many people here immediately jump to “It’s your IPTV provider” but I have THREE different IPTV providers. We watch a lot of 24/7 channels and on TiviMate (purchased from the Play Store) they ALL buffer occasionally. (I’m running TiviMate on an Nvidia Shield (Tube) wired via cat6 cable directly to a port on my router. I have 1.5 gbit Internet service and my network speeds at the shield are usually 400-600 gbits (down) with NordVPN on & connected to my closest Canadian VPN server. (Montreal) I turned off IPv6 and it seems to buffer less frequently, but I still see buffering from ALL my IPTV providers. (I’m using NordLynx protocol on my VPN.)

The weird thing is, I have a couple of IPTV players on my iPad, connected via Wifi, with the same 3 providers and I have yet to see a program start to buffer when watching it on the iPad. (Smarters Pro, “IPTV Smart” to name a couple.) The main problem is, I LIKE the TiviMate UI. It is much better than any of the other IPTV players I have tried, but I’m starting to think that maybe it’s TiviMate itself (v5.3.3) that is causing the buffering. Again - I’ve NEVER experienced buffering on any of the iPad IPTV apps I’ve used.) Granted, I haven’t spent literal hours at a time watching IPTV on my iPad… so far, I haven’t found one that I could “cast” to my Shield or I’d be watching TV that way all the time. (I CAN display my iPad screen on my TV using “APowerMirror” but it’s a PITA to do that every time I want to watch Cheers or Columbo. (Yes. I’m old.)

Any recommendations for a decent “temporary alternate” Android IPTV player I can install on my Shield to use for a while as a comparison to TiviMate? From everything I’ve seen so far, I don’t expect I’ll find anything with as good a user interface as TiviMate, but I’d like to give another app a try on the Shield, just to compare the buffering issues…

Any suggestions?

Nvidia Shield 2017 Pro - P2571 model.

fully updated.

My shield restarts randomly. It did it rarely once, but since Ive been having the new shield update 9.2.4 (33.2.0.400) it restarts almost every day at random times.

A year ago i changed the HDD to a SSD and put new cooling paste on, so i dont think its that.

am i the only one with this issue?