NAS: Synology DS212j 2x ST600VN0033 6TB in raid hybrid (SHR) pool 1, 1GBPS wired
Issue:
When I play a 4K movie (direct play) on the Plex it starts to stutter a little after a minute in then plays/pauses as it progresses throughout the movie. 1080p isn’t an issue whether trans-code or direct play. I first came across this issue trying to play the content over my first gen Google Wifi hub via Nvidia Shield (5ghz) so naturally I went to play directly on my Plex box to rule out some things but was surprised to see I can’t even play it directly on my Plex box via hard-wired! I did notice while monitoring the content playing directly on my Plex box that the Plex transcoder process goes to “terminate” around 30seconds or so before it pauses, however; it quickly spawns another one. Plex box CPU doesn’t go over 50%.
I’ve tried almost all transcoder combinations that I can think of
Thanks. This fixed the issue where it can now play on my Plex box but when I try to stream it to my NVIDIA Shield TV via Google wifi(5ghz forced) it still pauses/stutters so this implies I have a bandwidth bottle neck? I have a long cat6 Ethernet cable coming in soon so I’ll hard-wire between my Shield and router then retest. I just don’t see how it could be a router bottleneck based on the monitoring I observed when I played it on my Plex box directly. It wasn’t pulling insane Mbps numbers. I guess time will tell. Thanks for everyone’s help.
