# Certain Plex Shows Buffering **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Tags:** server-windows, roku, player-windows\ **Created:** [January 26, 2022, 5:16am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/certain-plex-shows-buffering/772966 "2022-01-26T05:16:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![Dagdandris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dagdandris](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Dagdandris)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 3:15am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/certain-plex-shows-buffering/772966/8 "2022-01-27T03:15:23Z")
Thanks for the response! I got a bit of a kick out of the [Plex Dance](https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064). 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 file. It’s also not ideal because it stresses my CPU fairly hard. I wouldn’t be able to do two 1080p transcodes at once. So that would make it where only one person could watch my server at a time. Windows should know how to play those files by default unless I’m crazy and forgetting something? I dream that hardware acceleration on AMD GPUs will come soon. Anyways, here is a copy of my buddies Plex Log: [John’s Plex Log.log](https://forums.plex.tv/uploads/short-url/oOjjpvsUkEOXsv1hbGTQsABKO83.log) (125.8 KB) Here is a copy of my [server log](https://support.plex.tv/articles/200250417-plex-media-server-log-files/) in case it would be useful: [Plex Media Server Logs\_2022-01-26\_22-12-01.zip](https://forums.plex.tv/uploads/short-url/1dGdGrK0Qo3ZdK6WDpyYXjqfBi0.zip) (3.9 MB) Here is a copy of the XML data for one of the problematic shows in question: [Angel Beats Ep 1 XML.txt](https://forums.plex.tv/uploads/short-url/shNPXXtmPzkcH43HTCp66fRSLLq.txt) (3.0 KB) --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/certain-plex-shows-buffering/772966)._