After struggling with buffering playing back RAW 4K demo footage, I noticed there is no option to tell Plex “Buffer for longer” or “Preload this many MB” or “Preload the whole video clip before playing”. I am a Plex Lifetime Pass user and have been using Plex for many years. But a Server-Side prefer…

Is that not what the Transcoder default throttle buffer is supposed to signal? That’s Settings -> Transcoder -> Show Advanced. I might have misunderstood what it was designed to do, but I can also see how even if working as intended, it might not solve your issue. There’s a difference between buffer…

It’s a bit confusing to be honest. I’ve just taken a look at what you suggested. I’m going to guess that is for ‘transcoding’ only and it won’t give me control over buffer time / amount using DirectPlay, which is what I use as I play original quality only.

Why? And for which client/playback devices? I remember the bad old days of hitting Play and then Pause, watching the buffer fill, hitting Play, and then being infuriated when playback was interrupted again. It was horrible! If you’re comfortable waiting for playback to start, desktop and phone cli…

Such a setting would be only feasible on a computer, which has a large hard drive. How should this work on a streaming box/STB which has only very limited RAM and close to zero flash memory? Tip: try Plex Media Player. It has just such a setting.

I think that such a feature would be nice to have as well. I struggle to play 4k HDR (~64Mbit/s) content on my LG B8 TV, streaming remotely over the internet (with 200Mbit/s both locations, avg. 23ms delay). The TV is just barely able to keep up, and just ends up stuttering, not even showing the “bu…

Feature Request - Manually Select Buffer Size - #7 by tom80H - Feature Suggestions

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