Server Version#: 1.16.5.1554 Player Version#: chromecast casting from latest ios app Is there an issue with latest update that causes Chromecast to ignore my server rules and direct play instead of transcoding? I also seem to see a lot more direct plays instead of transcodes all of a sudden on t…

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Same issue is happening with me, doesn’t matter if I stream to my chrome cast ultra or Visio smatcast my videos won’t seem to stream at a high quality than 240p even though the video file is 1080p Tautulli also says I’m direct playing the file which it’s obviously not since the quality is so poor. …

Hey guys thanks for the reports. I’ll look into this today and try to reproduce and get details to our development team. :slight_smile:

I have the same problem. When playing a file even when transcoding Tatulli and Plex Dashboard show it as direct play. The video starts and pauses after a few seconds. While trying to resume the playback it only buffers. Only happens when streaming at a remote location, from a Plex app to a Chrome…

Hey guys, there are two issues here; The Now Playing dashboard (and endpoint that Tautulili reads from) both report “Direct Play” even thought you can see in the PMS logs that the transcoder is running and transcoding the media to the desired resolution/limitation. When the Terminate Sessions …

Also Re #2: For me it didn‘t resolve the issue. It still pauses randomly after a few seconds. When hitting play again the video buffers and won‘t start playing.

Regarding #1 There are a few things at play, if you cast from Plex Web, the now playing info should be correct shortly after starting playback (initially it may report “Direct Play” incorrectly) If you cast from Android or iOS, it doesn’t update. (both of these issues are being tracked and worked o…

Another users with the same problem. The dashboard and tautulli report direct play so I’m not sure if it’s transcoding really despite the phone where I’m casting from has the quality limited to 1080p 8Mbps

I just started experiencing this issue today.

Chromecast wont transcode

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SwiftPanda16 October 2, 2019, 3:34am 40

Re: #1.

It’s more than just a cosmetic issue. The API is returning completely incorrect info. The most important being the sessionKey where the same value is being reused across multiple sessions.

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