so while it appears the buffering issue is resolved on Xbox I still occasionally get a completely frozen and unresponsive Xbox when a video tries to play, haven’t been able to pin it down to a file, I have a playlist of like 2000 videos and it’s happened frequently enough it’s not a corrupted file as I shuffle the list.
When the Xbox locks it completely turns the display output off, the tv gets no signal and the only thing still functional on the Xbox is the IR command to turn it off.
My roku ultra has blasted through my libraries without any issue in a long time with so much less power.
BTW thanks for all of the updates that have corrected the horrid interface change that happened a couple of years ago, I find both my Xbox and roku interfaces are now pretty good, my favorite being the roku.
Sounds like the XBox is running out of memory trying to shuffle that playlist. Do you have this issue when just playing a video normally not using the playlist?
I do not believe this is the case, I make sure everything is closed in the background, I have an Xbox one x so the memory in it is as it comes, I have my internal drive with at least 200gb free and an 8tb external with plenty of hard drive space, this does it on small and large playlists, I have not tried to see if it will fail on a single file, but at any rate if playlists aren’t able to function on the hardware the device has then it’s an application bug, not an xbox problem. This could be only related to the X model which is why it’s not being heard as much as the buffering issue. My Xbox is connected via cat 6 to a nighthawk router to a very capable custom PC. The roku connected to the very same switch in the living room works fine and it’s memory is probably piddly squat compared to the high end Xbox.
Can you also try using a small playlist? I don’t think the issue is using a playlist. It’s using a playlist with 2000+ videos. The client uses the device’s internal RAM to process that playlist. The longer the list, the more memory it needs.
The Roku client does not run the same type of code so how it handles playlists and it’s use of memory are not the same as with the XBox One X. You can’t compare these.
The last time it crashed the playlist I believe had 56 items in it all 30 min tv show episodes, I have none approaching 2000, 1000 would be about my max, and the huge library does the same thing, shuffle sometimes other times crash.
The majority of my plex usage is shuffling tv show playlists, this is what it does 95% of the time.
I run it like this a lot to just have something going while I’m doing other things, this problem has forced me avoid the Xbox app when I may want the Xbox on to keep up with friends and see when a group may be getting on.
The Xbox one X suffers from no other issue, so it’s not defective in anyway.
I do have a modern 4K tv and HDR10 so I have all of those features enabled on my Xbox. The video files are only up to 1080p none are 4K as of yet
I realize your trying to help me resolve an issue on my end, but in all honesty I’m pretty good at finding bugs and this appears to be just a bug that hasn’t been addressed.
If the roku works so much better on less hardware, we might want to think about not trying to press the Xbox for resources if there is no real benefit. The roku ultra is 4K compatible.
When you say memory is being consumed I assume you are talking about ram memory and not any hard drive cache?
The only thing I could offer up as a possible scenario that could be causing it is the 8tb external drive and the Xbox having 386 games installed on it, however removing games isn’t something I’m willing to test as it takes a huge amount of bandwidth to download around 4tb of games.
If you would like to try to replicate the issue I have a Sony Bravia hdr10 4K tv, Xbox one x with tv tuner, Astro a50 headset and wd my book 8tb usb3 hard drive attached all direct no usb hubs. Wired network connection. The server is running windows 1809 with the latest general pms release. The plex server is not experiencing any issues when the Xbox crashes, it doesn’t interrupt any other devices that may be using pms on it and does not crash the pms service or anything like that
