After some talking with Chris C and doing some of my own research, he verified that the client is what controls the stream "get" from the server. The client controls the amount of video data (either in data size or timeline, not sure) and the server responds accordingly, regardless whether there is …

Does the "Transcoder default throttle buffer" advanced server setting not already do something similar to this?

Nope it doesnt. It just controls how much time in the video the transcoder will transcode before it goes into sleep mode. So it transcodes chunks at a time... but the client is requesting specific amounts of time/data from the server regardless of what is already transcoded or available/not availabl…

I'm not sure I quite follow the logic. I'm assuming the scenario you're talking about is one where the initial stream is started, but available bandwidth lowers between the server and the client at some point after that. The client keeps playing while not knowing that it's not going to receive the…

The internal H264 frame decoder is not a consideration here, the clients video stack and the MPEG-TS system handles that for plex quite nicely :) However, besides that the wall-o-text crit is correct about the rest of the system.

[Feature Req] Control Stream from Client

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[Feature Req] Control Stream from Client

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