Server Version#: DSM7
Player Version#: 1.23.5.4862
Greetings Plex Friends.
Seeking some clarity while I try and get my plex server up and running.
- I tried doing some streaming of higher quality videos and was hit with some intense buffering.
- I ran some verbose logging and investigated and noted I was only getting 0.3 transcode speed
- Did some additional digging and heard tale of some issue with the (and this is where things get cloudy for me) - Drivers? For my Celeron J4125
- Thank you to some kind folks on the reddit. I putty’d into my machine and added the VaapiDriver=“i965” line to my preferences xml.
This left an improvement. I am transcoding at 1.3x now - however - I still cant reliably stream HD content.
- at the moment I am trying to “pre optimize” a video file (as I understand this could help when watching on tv?)
- it maxes out at 1.3x, waving up and down from 0.3x.
My resource monitor on DSM shows my CPU is barely even trying. I have tried adjusting the settings to “make my cpu bleed” etc.
I even completely uninstalled my server and reinstalled with the latest PMS to no avail.
Would really appreciate some direction - Im not well versed in this area but hopefully I can follow along.
PS. Would moving to docker solve this? I am not sure if docker can “talk” to the hardware better than the PMS file directly? again unsure and just asking.
Edit:
I have found
But I am not sure what I’m really looking at. I dont see a fix on here, more of a messy ticket of sorts.
Many thanks.
Gorship
