So I’ve been using Plex without a problem for the last 7-8 Months or so, however lately my VPS cannot seem to keep up with transcoding.
A little background on my setup:
Ubuntu 16.04 VPS
50 mbit/s / 50 mbit/s connection
Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2450L @ 1.80GHz (2-cores on my VPS)
4gb of RAM
Plex Server Version#: 1.13.5.5332
Plex Player Version#: 3.57.1
Video is being served out of a mega.co.nz backend mounted with rclone with a union-fs in-between.
This exact setup was working perfectly with content up to and including 1080p video transcoding.
One change I made lately was to reset my plex token as someone had gotten a hold of my previous one. Otherwise I haven’t made any changes to the system.
I turned on verbose logging temporarily and noticed speeds were always between 0.5-0.8, so definitely not enough to keep up with playing.
I have netstat installed on thsi server as well and watched that and htop during transcoding and the Plex Media Transcoder seems to be about hte only thing taking up any significant CPU resources…
Any other tips or anything else I could check to debug this?
Normally, just use triple grave bracketing (on preceding and succeeding lines. Also, we only need the media information part itself. We don’t need the parent/ grand parent / artist info.
Grabbing only <media> makes it come out a lot clearer too
Okay here we go, this is pretty exemplary of most of my content - 1080p h264 mkv container. Like I said, this was able to be transcoded to 720p and streamed without a problem for months, up until about a week or two ago. This would take at max 5-10 sec to buffer and then play without buffering all the way through.
I would sometimes try to direct play it to view it at 1080p and that worked well, as well. Unfortunately neither works anymore, I’m currently having some trouble with my VPS provider where im only getting about 50mbits up atm, where I should be getting around 200mbits up from my VPS.
This is obviously unrelated to not being able to transcode fast enough, however. Right?
Thanks!
<Media videoResolution="1080" id="7088" duration="2451181" bitrate="4609" width="1920" height="1080" aspectRatio="1.78" audioChannels="2" audioCodec="aac" videoCodec="h264" container="mkv" videoFrameRate="NTSC" audioProfile="lc" videoProfile="high">
<Part accessible="1" exists="1" id="7102" key="/library/parts/7102/1536396757/file.mkv" duration="2451181" file="/mnt/media/tv/The Late Show with Stephen Colbert/The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - 4x04 - Sharon Osbourne, Jay Rock.mkv" size="1412233515" audioProfile="lc" container="mkv" videoProfile="high">
<Stream id="13552" streamType="1" default="1" codec="h264" index="0" bitrate="4609" bitDepth="8" chromaLocation="left" chromaSubsampling="4:2:0" frameRate="29.970" hasScalingMatrix="0" height="1080" level="40" profile="high" refFrames="4" scanType="progressive" width="1920" displayTitle="Unknown (H.264 High)"/>
<Stream id="13553" streamType="2" selected="1" default="1" codec="aac" index="1" channels="2" audioChannelLayout="stereo" profile="lc" samplingRate="48000" displayTitle="Unknown (AAC Stereo)"/>
</Part>
</Media>
