I am PlexPass user for more than 2 years now, and I love Plex.
But in the last few weeks I got more and more problems.
The playback-quality of my movies and series are very, very bad.
I don´t know if it is because of wrong recording settings, media file types, plex settings or whatever.
I would be very happy if some of you could take a look at these screenshots. The shots of the playbacks are from my PC (plex web player) and from my iPad. I also added some screenshots of MediaInfo of the two test videos.
I forgot to mention: Plex server is at version 1.5.5.3634 on a Windows PC.
Playback on PC is via LAN, playback on iPad via WLAN. Distance from iPad to accesspoint is 4 meters.
I think I solved it.
I tried to use another converter to convert from avi to mp4. Now I use ffmpeg instead of Handbreake. The quality now is way better than before.
If you don’t mind a bit of one-time setup check out the thread in my sig below. In that thread is a set of conversion scripts that will give you very good MP4 files that are custom per each input file. You just queue up the videos you want to convert by moving them to an input directory and they process and end up in an output directory. Super convenient this way and always high quality encodes or remuxes (depending on file). It also adjusts audio to make sure you have direct playable files.
Thank you. I will definitely test your scripts.
I do it at the moment with a batch file and loop through a input-folder to convert all included files with ffmpeg. The “drop of bitternss” in using ffmpeg is, that it is a bit slow - some files (the HD ones) will only be converted with about 0.6x original speed, so that a 2 hour film will need about 3:20 hours to be converted.
