Greetings, An issue has recently been brought to my attention. I invited a couple of my friends to my Plex server. They can play certain files with no issues, but others will load indefinitely and never play. Most of my library files are .mp4, but some are .mkv. It seems random, but my friend cann…

That’s a head scratcher. The bit-rate of the files may be different, so check that. If their download speed isn’t that great, then perhaps you have an uncompressed 1080p vid that needs 40+ mbps pipe, and they’re still on 10 or less, which would be sufficient for compressed 1080p (2-5 MBPS). Also,…

It’s definitely a head scratcher. As I previously stated, all of the problematic shows are the first shows I loaded into Plex. Looking back they’re pretty garbage quality, 1080p with 1538kbps bitrate. Meanwhile my new ones are 1080p 8103kbps bitrate. As a test last night I deleted one of my old TV …

Please attach the XML Info for one of the problematic files. The forum does not support .xml attachments, so save the information as a text file or zip it. Also, please have your friend retrieve the Plex for Windows log files after recreating the problem. Use the file for which you provided the …

Thanks for the response! I got a bit of a kick out of the Plex Dance . I guess it has to be called something. I did that and it didn’t fix the issue. I had him turn direct play off and then he could play the file, but the quality dropped significantly. I don’t see why he can’t direct play an mp4 f…

Thanks for the info. Still reviewing. Two general comments, not specific to why the video is buffering for your friend. [image] Dagdandris: I wouldn’t be able to do two 1080p transcodes at once. Video transcoding is compute intensive, so even with one transcode you’ll see the CPU utilizati…

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FordGuy61 January 26, 2022, 8:55pm 4

Plex Dance one of the problematic files. It should not make a difference, but will be an interesting test.

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