Plex media player buffering locally

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Question hoping someone can help with.
Why would a file played locally direct, buffer in PMP but not PHT?

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could be lots of reasons…

  • poor network bandwidth (ranging from network quality to available bandwidth vs. bandwidth of the video you’re trying to watch)
  • something about the container / stream codecs not being supported on your client
  • …
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I would agree at some level, however playing the same file on the either client, which are both hosted on the server ( I5, 6Gb), PHT does not buffer, yet PMP does.

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I’ve also had occasional buffering in PMP, where PMP is located on the same machine as PMS. Found it very strange.

Unfortunately I don’t have any logs, I mostly use the Apple TV client nowadays. (Not a big fan of the PMP UI)

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If you disable Direct Stream and/or Direct Play in PMP’s preferences, it is prone to buffering like any other client.
Restricting the bandwidth in its preferences will do the same.

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Nope direct stream enabled. Dumped PMP and installed openPHT, works fine.

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I have both Direct Stream and Direct Play enabled.

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play something in PMP and then check PMS to see if PMP is transcoding instead of direct playing when you play something

if it is transcoding, it might be a DNS rebind protection issue, and PMP thinks its connecting via WAN and using the ‘remote’ quality settings in PMP

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Nope checked via tautulli, direct stream

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I recently began having this same issue. Buffering while playing locally.
Did you come up with a fix for this?

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Same problem here, I posted about it recently

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Yes, installed Open PHT, that seemed to fix, although not sure why

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