Hopefully, these settings above work for you as well.

Then turn off “Direct Stream” and turn off “Direct Play.”Īnd that’s it! After setting these options above I no longer suffer from jerky or stuttering playback in Plex on my Amazon Fire Stick. Then turn off “Network discovery.” Step 3īack in the Plex options click into “Advanced.” Step 2īack in the Plex Options click into “System.” Make sure the quality over local network is set to “Maximum.” Note: I am running my setup on 5Ghz Wireless N. Step 1Ĭlick into “Options” in your Plex app on the Amazon Fire Stick. I no longer have any stuttering or jerky playback. Settings to fix jerky and stuttering playbackĪfter fiddling around with the settings and reading multiple posts in the Plex forums I seem to have finally fixed it. I know it wasn’t my network as I have a pretty beefy wireless router with Wireless N. It was happening on 650MB avi files as well as HD mkv files.

After a couple weeks of using it I started to notice jerky playback occasionally and stuttering.

Plex on firestick 4k