Server Version#: 1.41.9.9961 Player Version#: 1.109.0.329-ea562b95 This one movie Sleep Has Her House won’t play without constant buffering but only on the Plex for Windows client. I’ve checked the logs and when attempting to stream there’s constant “Failed to stream media” errors. This doesn’t ha…

Sure enough remuxing to mkv did the trick! Playing flawlessly now, not sure what was the problem with the mp4, it was sourced directly from the director’s website but maybe it was a weird encode. I realized it was by far the biggest mp4 file I had and everything in the same neighborhood bitrate wise…

Plex for Windows has constant buffering with one specific file, Web and iOS have no issues

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OttoKerner August 2, 2025, 8:27am 2

Quite likely: Capcut videos playback issues with plex - #2 by OttoKerner

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Plex for Windows has constant buffering with one specific file, Web and iOS have no issues

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