Server Version#: 4.159.0 Player Version#: 10.30.8.4222 Tuner Make/Model: HDHomeRun Flex 4K Guide/Lineup name: N/A Using XMLTV?: N/A Channel number/Name: N/A New here, I couldn’t find a similar thread. My apologies if I missed this. I’ve been having trouble playing back recorded shows. When …

It’s best to download the server logs (in the Settings page on the Web App and at the bottom under the title Manage click on Troubleshooting then download the logs). Upload the zip file here and someone can go through them to look for issues. I would try and watch one of those shows again and if you…

Thank you very much for the advice. Logs attached. Plex Media Server Logs_2026-04-30_13-02-29.zip (6.3 MB)

Looking through the logs might I suggest that you re-install the previous version of PMS. The current version (the one your on) came out about 3 weeks ago and if you haven’t changed anything hardware wise then the issue might be the new release. I know there have been transcoding issues with the pas…

I appreciate the feedback. Just wish that Plex would update the service to work without having to dial back software to previous version. I tried to go back and was unsuccessful. Maybe a problem with my external SSD. That I’m recording to.

This is a much delayed answer. Assuming that this was all DVR’d media files from a HDHomerun I will skip the files are badly formatted and go to the Codecs folder didn’t update properly. You are posting the web app version and not the server version which is under the server settings further down …

Thanks for the suggestion. I had a chance last night to play around with the setup still having trouble after clearing codecs. I ended up resetting the mac mini, reinstalling plex. I’m able to playback files now, however, there is the occasional buffering. I’ll have to play around with the settings …

I did not see this. I’m a bit of a newb with plex server so this is very helpful. The end result that seems to be working was to ‘Disable video stream transcoding’… unfortunately. Thanks again for your help with this subject.

OK, so I’m back to report that I’ve had recent issues with streaming again. I found out that I some how connected my server (mac mini) to wifi and even though the server was connected to ethernet it was somehow giving preference to wifi. I have since turned off wifi and enabled hardware transcoding …

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In case you didn’t see it, there is a preview to improve the transcoder on Mac’s Improved MacOS Transcoding Forum Preview

Otherwise you would need to disable hardware transcoding till it becomes mainstream.

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