Hello, I installed Plex with 2 TV shows at my in-laws during thanksgiving, and we kept running into an issue:
Setup: old iMac from ~2009 with 10.9.5. System installed on a SSD. We used an Android phone to connect to a Chromecast on the TV. The “bottleneck” could be the router’s WiFi: It is a Verison FIOS. I suspect it to only be able to have maybe 5mbps of “local bandwidth”.
The problem we kept running was quite strange. We did experiment quite a lot so we confirm it: When playing an episode on the chromecast (from Android phone to control) with “720p 4.5mbps”, the phone showed that it “converted to 1080p 20mbps”.
Now I read around this forum that it is simply a display problem, but I am not so sure: Each time the image started to lag/stutter, we paused the episode, and change the quality to 720p/4mbps. It always worked. And no that is not a “buffering” issue, as we did try to pause each time by thinking it needed to buffering. Always stuttered again when unpaused. Which never happened once we chose the quality to 720p 4mbps.
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Now I looked everywhere in the server options, I did see a “force 720p 4mbps” for “internet streaming”, but I did not find any for “localhost streaming”. Where can I force such setting for my in laws?**
The reason I ask is they are not super tech savvy. And changing such control all the time in the phone is quite the task to them somehow. I really would have them to use a good default bitrate setting that would always work when they play local content!
Thanks for any help.
