Hello, my Plex server settings for Plex Web Quality and Remote Access limits are set to Max quality but the remote client (Roku, PlayStation, etc…) is only pulling the stream at 3 Mbps, well that’s what it shows on my Server Dashboard when remote access is happening. It shows that the Video and Audio are set to Direct Play, so should it not play at original quality to the remote client? The bandwidth chart on the Server shows like 8 Mbps so not sure which is correct. Is there another server setting or are clients by default set to cap at 3 Mbps and the client needs to change the settings? Thanks
If it says “Direct Play” in the Dashboard, then that is what happens.
If the file being streamed doesn’t require more than 3 mbps average, then that is the bandwidth which is used.
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Server bandwidth says 8 Mbps but says 3 Mbps above.
The magic word is “average”.
snip the peaks off of those needles and use them to fill in the gaps between them. You will roughly achieve 3mbps.
If the connection between server and client is fast enough, it will transfer the packets at a faster speed, which then will result in small bursts of activity on the bandwidth graph.
Ok, great, thanks for the info. Wasn’t sure if keeping the ‘Automatically adjust quality (Beta)’ setting enabled was a good thing or not or it was making things worse.
What it does is keeping transcoding activated, even if the available bandwidth would allow streaming the file as-is.
Disable it. It never left the Beta state.
Oh, ok, will that option ever get fixed/corrected? Adaptive bitrate video/streaming seems like a good option to have. That way I can leave the server at max quality then if I happen to be at a location that the internet is not great then at least quality will get degraded a bit but better than having the stream keep stopping/buffering all the time.
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