I’m sure i’m doing something… not providing enough information… post in wrong location. I seem to get yelled at about that first when I use forums so i’ll apologize now, get it out of the way lol.
I’ve followed the path of my Server to my LG B9 and everything is capable of gigabit. I even bypassed the switch so both my TV and Server connect to the router.
I’m trying to play 4k movies ranging from 50-80gigs and the movie i’m unable to play is at 74gigs
I’m not having any errors that I know of… the stream loads fine and I can watch 4k Movies just fine, except that I keep getting buffering issues. Everywhere I look people say if your hardware can’t handle the trans-coding then you’re going to get buffering issues. Well i’m not actually trans-coding anything. This is a 3rd server just for 4K movies only. (Server 1 is for everything else, Server 2 is remote)
-Original Direct play
-No Subtitles
-Have tried multiple audios and it seems AC3 or DTS work best.
Keep in mind this is a new sever install on a fresh PC install.
As far as I can tell from hours and hours of trouble shooting across google, for some reason plex isn’t outputing to the TV fast enough.
at 80mbps which is average for this 4k movie thats about 10 MB’s. I can copy paste files across the network and get speeds up to 200 MB’s but plex can’t direct play 10 MB’s? I’m hoping its a simple silly fix but from all my searching on google I’m having my doubts.
Also watching my PC’s performance while streaming direct play my cpu doesn’t go over 10%
There are times I can watch an 80gig file without hitting a buffer for 30-90mins and other times it buffers every 5-10 seconds
Windows 10 Pro 64bit
Intel i7-7700 3.60GHz 4 Core
16 GB ram
EVGA GTX 1080 FTW
as Tiebierius said… with 4K you easily run into some technical restrictions – TVs only offering 100Mbit/s LAN is one possible scenario.
Keep in mind that you not only need to worry about the average bitrate but the maximum bitrate. As most videos are currently encoded with flexible bitrates, the maximum bitrate can be significantly higher (4x avg. bitrate is not unreasonable).
For your 74 GB file your average bitrate is approx. 110 Mbps (assuming the video is 90 minutes)
Actually the runtime for the movie I was having this problem, The Equalizer is 132 mins. Using your formula its at 74.75 Mbps but I see your point.
Do you happen to know a way around this problem?Or maybe a device for playback at the TV? I used to use Roku in the past so I checked but they sadly also have 100mbps lan. Is there a dependable client for TV that not only has gigabit lan and simple to use but has a large range of supported codecs? What would you use?
Holy Crap… I love you… with my 5GHz I now spike to 250 mbps +
wtf… First time wireless was better then wired for me
My movie night turned into a late 8 hour long search to fix this problem.
Thank you so much!
Do you happen to know of a good client for plex on a 4k TV you could recommend? If I ever needed to go back to wired it would be nice to be pointed in the right direction. Most I’ve checked seem to only be 100mbps and id rather something thats not a PC.
From what I’ve found Apple TV 4K, Nvidia Shield have a 1 Gbps LAN ports.
Modern WIFI in a good environment should also be able to get beyond 100 Mbps (depends on your environment).
