Server Version#:1.25 and above Happens on any browser. Tried Chrome, Firefox and Edge. Any Plex server version 1.25 and above has this issue. The only fix is to downgrade the server to 1.24.5. Once downgraded, the issue no longer happens.

Problem seems fixed. Wait and see. thanks @ChuckPa and Plex dev team.

I’ve been having the same issues. Plex Web stops playing every few minutes for no reason. Very annoying. Even happens when watching directly from my Plex server… Going to downgrade to 1.24.5.5173. Following this thread and will upgrade once this is fixed. Please let me know if you need any log…

Was going to roll some updates today and wanted to check in here to see if this is still an issue. Short answer is yup. 1.24.5.5173 has been rock solid for me, but as soon as 1.25.x is installed, I start getting buffering a few minutes after playback begins in Plex Web. Guess I’ll check back next …

Just downgraded to 1.24.5.5173, I can also confirm that Plex Web works perfectly now. Plex needs to compare source code from 1.24.5.5173 to 1.25 and see what they broke. I really wish this was an open source project. It would make finding and fixing the issues so much easier. Accessed using http…

I have the same issue with an 17 Mbps file. It works fine once I switch to automatic quality determination. Then I can see that the Server starts to transcode which wasn’t neccessary before.

With 1.25.x mine is doing it at any bitrate. The mp4 file I was playing earlier was only 2 Mbps. It was only transcoding audio from 5.1 down to stereo but kept stopping every few minutes. Here is the Media Info. Codec H264 Bitrate 1356 kbps Bit Depth 8 Chroma Location left Chroma Subsampling…

Just tried the new beta release. 1.25.4.5468. Issue remains.

Still buffering indefinitely. 1.25.4.5468 problem persists.

I have the same issue on version 1.25.3.5409 @ Windows. Enabling “Use alternate streaming protocol for video playback” seems to mitigate the issue. I am pretty convinced that the web player just stops asking the server for “media chunks” for whatever reason (no relevant http requests are being mad…

@sixones , Can you let us know if this issue is on Plex’s to do list? Many of us have had to roll back to PMS 1.24. Something changed in 1.25 that causes Plex Web to stop playback after about 2 minutes or so.

Plex Web stops buffering after 2 mins causing playback to stop

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admin_wilmaw January 23, 2022, 11:21pm 61

Latest web app (app.plex.tv) is also affected. The issue is PMS, not web app.

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[Fixed] Playback endlessly buffering after normal playback in Plex Web on all 1.25+ server releases Plex Media Server server-windows	21	1415	August 6, 2022
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Plex Web stops buffering after 2 mins causing playback to stop

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