Plex CPU High usage and Plex is currently useless since I can't even use it at home

[Gilgameshxg]

Server Version#: 1.18.6.2368
Player Version#: 4.22.1

Plex Media Server Logs_2020-02-11_19-09-27.zip (1.4 MB)

So I’ve tried a multitude of things. I updated Plex not sure what version I was using before but it was before Christmas 2019. But now I can only have 1 stream and it uses 100% of my CPU. I tried for help on here before and sadly it went no where just stopped getting responses after trying to provide everything asked for. I found that people said to turn off upnp which i did and tried to just doing port forwarding. I found that if you can Subtitles to always it would help which did help because it lowered my 100% cpu to 20 % which was beter but I still can’t play MKV files with TrueHD Audio at all. It either won’t load or keeps doing micro jumps while watching. I used to not have any kind of issue. I found a way to update to the latest plex pass version with FreshPorts since I can’t wait months on end to test and hope that Plex is fixed. I’m still having the issue on the newest version. I was wondering if anyone was having this issue and if so what did you do to fix it. Wondering what’s the command in FreeNAS with FreshPorts to install a specific version of Plex since people are saying that they are still using a way older version of Plex since the new ones with all their features can’t do transcoding very well. Used to do 4-5 streams no problem with using 30% CPU and now I can’t even get 1 to work. People are saying that they are still using 1.14/1.17 since newer then that doesn’t work. I love Plex and I’ve been useing it for at least a few years and decided to buy a lifetime pass but it’s just really annoying to not be able to use it for months on end and have no idea on how to fix it.

Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 v6 @ 3.70GHz.
65 GB 2400 Unbuffered ram.
FreeNAS on it’s own SSD with Plex on Mirrored SSD.

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Plex Transcoder Has the CPU at 100%

Server Version#: 1.18.3.2129 Player Version#: FreeNAS OS Version: 11.2-U7 Plex Media Server Logs_2020-01-06_22-11-30.zip (2.3 MB) I’m having the issue of when I start a video stream my CPU goes from 0.46% to 100% for the begining and then go down to normal but if I jump through the video it has the same issue for a single stream. I deleted the jail for Plex and reinstalled Plexpass plugin and updated and I’m still having this issue. Video streams will take a long time to load for a single st…

Links I think have been helpful:

PMS will not transcode True HD for clients - makes them error out

Hello, I am pretty new to PMS (about 2 weeks) just about everything works as it should, But there is one exception… True HD. From my understanding, this is how it works: Client request movie from PMS while saying how it can play it back, resolution, data rate, and audio capability…PMS send content over in the way the client request it? For example, I have a friend that has 3 different clients ( Nvidia Shield, Samsung TV, and Web app) he is trying to play a movie with 2 audio codecs, True HD a…

Can’t remember the other location I found out about the Subtitles change since I guess the Automatic setting is broken.

Any help would be greatly appreciated so that i don’t have to look at other options since I’ll have no other choice since I can’t get Plex to work as intended.

[Gilgameshxg]

Sorry if this comes off as a-holeish just very tired and frustrated with trying to get this to work like it used to. I’ve loved Plex since I learned how to use it I think 4 years ago can’t remember. I believe I was playing around with Plex before they had it on Smart TVs for all manufacturers and you had to have a Roku to get it. Thanks for any help in advance!

[Gilgameshxg]

So it seems that Direct Streaming was what was giving me issues with videos stuttering and just spinning. Not sure if I can resolve this by doing anything on my end or if it’s something I’ll just have to check again in future versions of Plex.