Not sure if this has been seen by others…
Posted on the 25/1/2019
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Quick update on the Plex issues with stuttering and server too slow messages while direct playing. We’ve gotten a few example files that reproduce this and have worked with Plex.
They’ve discovered the content that has these issues is muxed in a way where audio/video packets are out of order in the file and their play is trying to find time sequential packets for playbacks which causes a bunch of thrashing and causes the player not to be able to keep up with the stream at full rate and thus the pausing of videos or server too slow messages.
_They are working to figure out how to solve this by caching/improving the performance of this seeking. _
We don’t have an ETA on a fix yet, but this fix will likely come in the Plex client app itself and will be decoupled form SHIELD updates.
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