without the vpn : Plex is able to establish back to back localhost connections.
i’ll wait for another 6 hours and report back here.
at this stage i’m fairly certain its my vpn that is causing the problem.
i have a slightly off topic question if you don’t mind me asking - plex decided to trash my system again as i have chapter generation and volume equalization enabled and plex was transcoding the file for the same. i have “Use hardware acceleration when available” option checked and my gpu support h264 and h265 transcoding but plex was not using it for the above - is that normal??
