I can’t find anything on here about caching the start of video and audio files but wouldn’t be surprised if it has come up before. I run my various audio and video libraries from several NAS spinning drives and due to the cost of power, I have these set to spin down when not in use. I also use a loc…

Thinking more about this it may be more difficult than I first assumed… Plexamp caches files to play next in a playlist whereas what I propose is different in that ideally Plex would cache the start of all files on a local SSD… could this be possible as a future feature? Would be interested in what …

[image] _X11: ideally Plex would cache the start of all files on a local SSD It is not sensible. You are not taking into account that playback parameters can be different, depending on which device type is used for playback, which type of audio stream and/or subtitles is selected by the user,…

Thank you however I am not suggesting changing the way Plex streams content to clients I am proposing a way to offset the delay in the source content being presented to the Plex media server to process and stream to clients when originating from a NAS drive in standby. There is usually one video so…

[image] _X11: I can’t find anything on here about caching the start of video and audio files but wouldn’t be surprised if it has come up before. here you go… SmartSync - preload engine for Up Next (and expanded buffering control) RAM Cache → same feature but OP emphasizes a use case to cac…

Thank you tom80H, I thought I couldn’t be the only one to have thought of something like this before - I will add my vote to the thread :slight_smile: (although it was almost five years ago it was posted).

Cache start of video and audio files

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tom80H July 14, 2024, 10:49pm 5

here you go…

SmartSync - preload engine for Up Next (and expanded buffering control)
RAM Cache → same feature but OP emphasizes a use case to cache to RAM instead of SSD/HDD

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Cache start of video and audio files

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