It happens the same whether I’m remote or on the same network for me.
not for me, i don’t do any remote streaming, all local
That’s fair, I do both from my own server and family server hosted on Synology DS920+'s, Most of the time playback locally is fine, occasional issue as reported by many others Inc logs (thank you). Remote streaming (direct play/stream…no transcode) does cause issues (as reported TY) near enough all the time.
Yellow spinning circle of death, black screen + no audio (yet time is progressing) or black screen with time progressing but with audio.
You can band-aid this by dropping out the stream and restarting the same video several times, but never resume playback as that will most certainly cause issues as noted above.
that’s not the same issue we are talking about here.
I think I just discovered something about the Shield .
I would like to ask:
- Restart the shield
- Play the Seinfeld video
- Does it play or stall ?
All local in my case.
mine was rebooted before i sent the video showing it failing.
Damn. I got mine all junked up by rapid-fire play / stop / seeking all over the place.
When I did that, it wouldn’t play anything without getting chopping and everything you all describe here.
I restarted the shield and it’s fine.
Yours is the Pro or Tube? (sorry for being geriatric this morning)
i have both
Which one recreates the problem easier?
I’m asking because I’m trying to eliminate OOM as a problem.
- The Plex app is written in JAVA
- JAVA is not the best at garbage collecting memory when it’s done using it. (poor reusability)
- The Plex app isn’t all that small
mdarcy:/ $ ps -eo F,S,UID,PID,PPID,C,PRI,ADDR,SZ,CMD | grep -i plex
5 S 10136 4800 3320 2 19 0 1195871 plexapp.android
mdarcy:/ $
1.1GB just for the app sitting without playing.
Total memory picture at this point:
mdarcy:/ $ free -m
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 2950 2759 190 7 19
-/+ buffers/cache: 2739 210
Swap: 511 129 382
mdarcy:/ $
Interesting – and confusing point.
- Now play Seinfeld clip followed by my honking 2160p clip.
mdarcy:/ $ free -m
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 2950 2776 173 7 20
-/+ buffers/cache: 2755 194
Swap: 511 143 368
mdarcy:/ $ free -m
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 2950 2624 325 5 20
-/+ buffers/cache: 2604 346
Swap: 511 164 347
mdarcy:/ $
That’s a considerable memory utilization difference. One would think buffering frame of 2160p requires more memory
they both do it, 100% of the time.
the tube has no issues playing 4k content (providing it’s not extreme high bitrate), so not sure why it would have issue with such a low bitrate 720p file.
I will see if I have any 720p left here and start playing it.
I’m not sure how I can go about helping troubleshoot this, but I’ve also been having this issue with a lot of my media on the Shield lately.
Post a sample where you can confirm it fails and the log from when it happened:
Folks,
I got “redirected” by an equipment failure.
It seems this thread is degrading.
Please be advised, I am reviewing and will consider pruning non-productive comments which are OFF-TOPIC or REPEATS
My prior comment was “pruned” i.e. censored. I guess my offer to upload logs has been snubbed.
I have cleaned out that which is clearly CONFUSION and OFF-TOPIC.
Sorry for the heavy hand but it was necessary.
I will be able to get back to this now that the server is running again.
If your logs show where the audio drifts, Please repost them and accept my apologies.
If it’s something else – please create a new thread
FOR EVERYONE ELSE READING ALONG
Everyone piling on “Oh , It’s Freakin’ Broke – so I’ll add my complaint too” isn’t going to cut it. NOTHING will ever get done that way
DVR is NOT this topic.
Never said it was, friend. Just making a comparison.
Edit: to be clear, I’m not calling you out, ChuckPA. You’re literally the only one trying to help. It is appreciated. I’ll shut up now.
