Right now the when I click play or when I skip ahead on a video, it take a while for the video to start playing. This is on Roku ultra and Samsung 8000 series TV. The delay is not too long, maybe like 5 seconds for DVR show and around 7 to 10 seconds for movies (BRD -> compressed MKV). It is perfectly acceptable but I wonder if there a way to increase the performance? A beefier CPU? better network connection? better or more powerful client machine? or any tweak in the PLEX server setting? Any ideas?
Server is running on a i5 Haswell gen “S” series CPU, wired connection to a pretty powerful ASUS router and both Roku and TV are connected wirelessly over the 5GHz channel.
What year is your Samsung?
Hardwired is always better if possible.
I have a 8000 series Samsung last year’s model and it’s hardwired and nearly instantaneous for fast forward and rewind. I mostly use DVR content but also 1080p br rips and lower def stuff and still under 2 seconds.
Can’t speak for Roku but my Chromecast on 5G wifi is unbearable…
@nokdim said:
What year is your Samsung?
Hardwired is always better if possible.
I have a 8000 series Samsung last year’s model and it’s hardwired and nearly instantaneous for fast forward and rewind. I mostly use DVR content but also 1080p br rips and lower def stuff and still under 2 seconds.
Can’t speak for Roku but my Chromecast on 5G wifi is unbearable…
Get true 1Gig hardwired and see.
Samsung TV is 2016 model. I was leaning towards connection speed too…I will try wired connection and see how it works.
That should be good enough to transcode one movie at a time when you use the full quality from a BluRay and PGS subtitles are activated.
If you don’t use subtitles and your files are compressed to max. ~ 10 mbps bitrate, this cpu could almost handle 3 streams at once.
Performance was possibly degraded when the updates were installed which were supposed to mitigate the ‘Spectre’ and ‘Meltdown’ bugs in CPUs. https://meltdownattack.com/
