I have used Plex on my PS3 through DLNA for years. Lately I heard that PS3 Plex app didn’t require a Plex Pass anymore. Today I tried it. I want to provide feedback for you, although I’m afraid it’s not good.
The UI scrolling is extremely choppy, unresponsive and slow. Also, sometimes the app will appear to hang, it will take so long to load in images for boxart. Note that this is on a wired gigabit LAN and over wireless I experience none of these problems on iPad 2 or iPhone 5S clients. For WAN I have a 50mpbs fiber connection.
Overall, running over DLNA instead is a much, much better experience. I don’t think that is a good impression for Plex branding, when the PS3 app runs so poorly.
I really hope you can make improvements over time to the PS3 app. And thanks for Plex regardless.
@avogadro23 said:
4. Video actually doesn’t seem slower. But it IS a problem that it is just as slow as music.
DLNA actually was much better. So it’s not a problem with the Plex server per se. It’s the Plex client app.
Completely agree with your analysis of where the problem is (although I think its probably caused by something in the PS3 app development platform which Sony give the team), it’s somewhere in the PS3 or the Plex App :-/
Now we just need a fix… I’ve not opened my christmas presents yet so here’s hoping [-O<
I’d also check your TV settings as well. My Roku 2 played fine but the Chromecast and Xbox One Plex clients had choppy playback. It was the Auto Motion Plus options (Samsung) - the Xbox one automatically adjusts for motion and thid, coupled with the TV ‘helping’, made the picture choppy. Just turned it off on the TV and all playback was fine
There have been some incremental fixes over the last few months and it did get a lot better than it was, so I know the Plex guys have been working on it. However those fixes, did not seem to help the music part of the app. Pretty embarassing when you see how well the low powered raspberry Pi 2 manages it and how grunty the Playstation 3 CPU is, even today. I note that the Playstation Plex App version (displayed in the bottom right of the screen when starting) is well behind other Plex Media Player versions. I would be fairly confident that all Plex Media Player’s share a common code base so I suspect for some reason that base code is well behind as well. Anyway, I wanted to chime in and say a ‘me too’. One of the rare times the Plex guys haven’t got it right. Yet…
HERE MY FELLOW PLEX USERS! AS PROMISED
AND IF YOU GUYS ARE WONDERING HOW KNOW THIS STUFF ITS SIMPLE WHEN YOU RUN MULTIPLE SERVERS AND MAINTAIN THEM FOR PEOPLE FOR A LIVING!
Here is the fix for the press x play issue and meta data problems !
{NOTE: WITHIN THE PS4 AND PS3 APP ENABLE DIRECT PLAY AND DIRECT STREAM }
Step 1:
STOP YOU SERVER FIRST
Step 2 :
Go into your router and / or modem settings and disable UPDP most routers or modems will have this enabled by default the reason you have to do this is they need to build a fix so users will not have to do this!
Step: 3 :
Restart your server than
Go to http://app.plex.tv/web/
and go to server settings than click on the transcoder tab and click show advance and change this number values to this!
Segmented transcoder timeout: 120
Transcoder default duration: 320
Transcoder default throttle buffer: 0
and disable this option: Pause background transcoding tasks when streaming content that requires transcoding. Recommended for low-powered systems.
Step 4 :
This last step go into server settings again and click on the agents tab click on shows tab than click TheTVDB tab and enable The Movie Database than click on The Movie Database tab under the shows tab and enable The TVDB enabling this will fix your random media has failed to download meta data!
Finally update your library’s
I HOPE PLEX EMPLOYEES TAKE ON THIS AND TEST THIS STUFF THEM SELVES SO THEY CAN PROVIDE US AN AWESOME UPDATE!
IF ANYONE NEEDS HELP ADJUSTING THEIR ROUTER/MODEM SETTINGS PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO ASK ME!
I use playstation 3 on daily bases to test new changes and I completely agree, the thing is border line unusable. and unfortunately there isn’t much we can do since we have as much resources as the PS3 gives us.
A good proof is the Raspberry, the code that runs on PS3 is almost identical to the code that runs on RPi, except very platform specific parts like key mapping and the native video player, but the UI is pretty much identical. if anything we actually enable more effect on rpi so it a more taxing version of the code.
as for the version of the plex app you see when you start the app, don’t put too much weight behind that since that’s the version of the bootstraper that is download into your PS3, every time you start the app, the most recent version is loaded from plex.tv.
we always try our best to keep the performance footprint of the app as low as possible but when you are running on a platform as limiting as PS3, there is only so far your code can go.
I guess my question would be, why does netflix work perfectly on the same device? What do they have access to that Plex don’t? As far as I recall, the issue with the Playstation Plex app, was not to do with the Playstation OS as such, rather an update to the app. Furthermore, these issues were fixed for the Movies section, but persisted in the audio section. Something doesn’t sound quite right here.
I have a temporary fix. Disable Remote Access on the server. For whatever reason, when it is on the ps3 menu runs terribly slow even though it is on the same local network. When I turn it off, the ps3 becomes responsive again. Good solution if you don’t need remote access, but only a temporary one if you do.
Yeah, I’ve noticed some oddities like this recently, so this is a good tip thankyou, I’ll try it out. I also note that the more items I add, the slower it get’s I’m convinced there is something server side going on. I’ve been wondering if it’s streaming it via the internet or some random thing like that actually. That’s what the performance is like, Perhaps you’re onto something…
@jawyman42 said:
I have a temporary fix. Disable Remote Access on the server. For whatever reason, when it is on the ps3 menu runs terribly slow even though it is on the same local network. When I turn it off, the ps3 becomes responsive again. Good solution if you don’t need remote access, but only a temporary one if you do.
I’ve been having slowness problems on my PS3 and unfortunately this fix isn’t good for me as remote access was already disabled! Very annoying - it makes it borderline unusable until a restart. It’s a shame because the app is so lovely otherwise.
