Parrot drone applications have video issues on Shield

[pgeller]

Hi folks. Looking for ideas. I have a Shield Portable with the latest software, circa 2016:

Android verion 5.1
Android security patch level 2016-03-01
Kernel version 3.4.10-gf6c5d7b
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Fri May 27 07:20:18 PDT 2016
Build number LMY47N.01.00.32208.0110

I'm using some Parrot Bebop 2 drones with both the native Parrott App (FreeFlight Pro, v4.42 or 4.71)

Firmware 4.71
Hardware HW_02
SDK Version 4.0.0.4

as well as AR.Pro 3 in its recent versions.

About a year ago, streaming video to either application started having synchronization problems. The video pane in the apps is highly pixelated and flickers and in some cases, is just frozen. Both software developers don't have an answer. Nothing about Android changed in this period, but both applications have had several revs since it last worked. I'm guessing some function in the SDK has forgotten how to deal with the Shield?

Videos recorded to flash are fine, no problems. I have three drones, all producing the same result. Only live vides displayed in the apps is scrambled.

Just looking for ideas, if not a solution.

Thanks for any help.
pg

 

[glenesis]

Same with my S5. The video feed was good, but now it is laggy and freezes, or disappears entirely, though I maintain control of the quadcopter.

It may be a bandwidth issue. I do seem to hold the visual feed when I use a Mi WiFi+ extender, even though the frame rate is still largely abysmal.