# Endless buffering, can't play direct stream. Transcoding works fine

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/endless-buffering-cant-play-direct-stream-transcoding-works-fine/739759>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-synology, player-windows\
**Created:** [August 29, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/endless-buffering-cant-play-direct-stream-transcoding-works-fine/739759 "2021-08-29T18:01:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![SnowDrifter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@SnowDrifter](https://forums.plex.tv/u/SnowDrifter)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/endless-buffering-cant-play-direct-stream-transcoding-works-fine/739759/1 "2021-08-29T18:01:24Z")

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Server Version#: 1.24.1.4931  
Player Version#: 1.33.0.2444-a220eae4  
[Plex Media Server Logs\_2021-08-29\_10-40-34.zip](https://forums.plex.tv/uploads/short-url/oaV9BMhrPBbHuHrdJoZERTQmFci.zip) (2.6 MB)

Having issues where direct stream buffers and hangs. Issue occurs on all players: windows 11 desktop, windows 10 laptop, android app. Disabling direct stream and transcoding a video works perfectly fine.

Console is filled with:

Aug 28, 2021 17:56:23.433 [0x7f1593cf6b38] Debug — Failed to stream media, client probably disconnected after 1474560 bytes: 104 - Connection reset by peer

Aug 28, 2021 17:56:23.433 [0x7f1593cf6b38] Debug — Completed after connection close: [192.168.1.17:60924] 206 GET /library/parts/8449/1614131569/file.mp4?Accept-Language=en (13 live) TLS 72ms 1474560 bytes (range: bytes=455620769-)

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**Author:** ![SnowDrifter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@SnowDrifter](https://forums.plex.tv/u/SnowDrifter)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2021, 4:25am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/endless-buffering-cant-play-direct-stream-transcoding-works-fine/739759/3 "2021-08-30T04:25:30Z")

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Nice thanks!

Any way of scanning my library for problem files?

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2021, 6:08am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/endless-buffering-cant-play-direct-stream-transcoding-works-fine/739759/5 "2021-11-28T06:08:18Z")

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