So you know what that’s telling you , unfortunately ?
Given my files, ripped from BluRay by myself, work correctly,
Either:
The source material you’re starting with
-or-
Your process
-or-
A combination of both
is causing the problem.
If you’re getting media from the internet (many do), there are a lot of people out there who have NO IDEA what they’re doing when they generate stuff to push to public.
I had to build a big server because I like my OTA TV content nice and clear.
What I was finding was crap because people thought 2-3 Mbps was enough.
On a 48" TV, that stuff looks like crap.
I built my server (110TB usable), so I could capture and keep everything at full resolution.
It also allows me to rip my discs and keep them at full quality (which is perfect on the TV with the AVR and 7.1 surround sound I have)
I’ll take down the test file now.
I hope this has provided insight to what you need to do?
What seems to be clear based on your and my testing with the two sample video files I provided, is that the plex server is stumbling with some video files. I’m not sure what else has been proven.
Your 3 options presume that there is something non-conforming with my video files. What makes you claim that instead of claiming that there may be something wrong with the plex server? What specifically makes the sample files problematic?
Nope! The source material are blu rays, the process is using what I feel are standard handbrake settings. I think you’re telling me I need to re-rip and/or re-transcode any file that causes errors. I certainly could, but how specifically am I do do that?
It abundantly clear the files you provided have been processed through handbrake. There is no way of knowing what damage has been done.
Yes, I think there is something wrong with the process of reducing a whole bluray to 3 Mbps. I would have to experiment myself to diagnose that process.
As I just stated above in #2, I would have to experiment with the process to discover why BluRays , reduced to 2-4 Mbps, are failing in your case. I very much suspect there are others in the forum who reduce their material so I am at a loss how to guide you further here.
We’ve shown my media on your machine works perfectly (which you’ve confirmed).
The best I can offer at this point is to do some trial runs in my free time.
( I started a job on my RTX2000. It’s encoding 62fps so will be a while )
Yes, I’m using handbrake. I assume this is the most popular software for those that transcode their BR rips. What did you use to reduce your sample files to 10GB?
If my video files are somehow non-conformant and I need to re-transcode, so be it. However, if that’s the case I feel that some kind guidance needs to be released so conformant files can be created.
In the meantime, I will do the same as you and see if I can randomly suss out specific handbrake settings that might be problematic. Thanks for all your efforts @ChuckPa.
I took the original rip of my BluRay.
I used dd if=<filename.mkv> of=<filename.mkv> bs=1M count=10000
This gave me a 10GB sample file snippet of the file, exactly as it existed.
If I were to reduce it, I’d use FFMPEG directly. Something like:
