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…

Feature Request - Manually Select Buffer Size

tom80H Closed April 18, 2021, 1:56pm 7

Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate

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