Hi all,

I bought a MiBox 3 for obvious reasons but the playback of large 4K files always caused issues which in some cases is the reason it was tossed to the side and some people splashed the cash on a sheild on many threads across forums. Well I have not yet and persevered with the £34 buy

For my circumstance I seemed to have solved the 4K playback issues via online streaming

I assumed this was a media player issue as the apps were force closing and it was skipping frames and I was limited to what I could use as only a handful of apps delivered all formats of audio passthrough "essential"

After a lot of trial and error I found that EUMC was as good as it got but still not perfect at all

Next step I bought the ugreen usb ethernet adapter on Ebay for £8 "this changed nothing although some reddit comments suggested it solved the issue"

I then upgraded the original hdmi to an 18gb one - £5 on Amazon. This definitely helped early on but the judder did come in to play later In the streams but no force closing of the player at any time which had been happening

So I delved deeper in to reddit threads and specifically relating to Mi Box and Sony TVs "i am using an XF9005" and I found a reply to sub comment that suggested turning the motion flow and cinema setting offs this worked for him so I went in to the motion settings and turned off Motionflow and Film Mode on Low "initially off" I assume this would be the similar across motion settings on other brand tvs

Well hey presto this seems to have solved it!!

I last streamed a 12gb 4K HDR lossless Atmos episode with zero issues.. not possible before! and a 44gb 4K HDR Atmos movie before that

I will update on how it goes but I think this will stop me from shelling out £150 on a sheild for some time, Dolby vision is not great on the xf9005 unless player led processing is at play "I think this may only be possible on selected blu ray players and possibly apple TV so I will not miss that format

I will add an update if I run in to issues but looks like it works Hopefully this helps someone