Ah yeah. Lower the Plex.tv connect timeout to 1 and read to 2 or 1. That should fix it. (in PM4Ks AddonSettings, system (long press enter on the icon)). If you want it even faster, lower max retries.
That should get you up and running in below 9 seconds. If you lower max retries to the old default, 1, or even zero (bad idea), it should be really fast.
I’ll lower the defaults a little for 0.8.0 and maybe add a specific retries setting for Plex.tv requests.
Edit: maybe a “fast offline detection” mode that sets those limits very low.
Awesome! Followed your settings. With internet 2 second start. W/O internet 4 seconds. Excellent! Thanks.
A fast offline detection would be cool though.
Attention everyone: the “adaptive” readfactor might be bugged in Kodi 21. It seems like after pausing, then resuming, the buffer empties itself completely in this mode. I haven’t been able to fully confirm this, yet.
For local PMS this doesn’t seem to be an issue, I’m experiencing this in a remote environment and was able to fix this by changing the readfactor back to 4. This might introduce hitching in high bitrate scenarios, though, so not recommended for local streaming via HTTP.
Even with 4 the buffer will empty itself at first, but will continue filling after a couple of seconds. Adaptive runs itself completely dry, then the stream pauses and it fills up again.
Forget this. Pretty sure it was a network issue on my end.
I used all the ones you outlined in your previous post.
“ Ah yeah. Lower the Plex.tv connect timeout to 1 and read to 2 or 1. That should fix it. (in PM4Ks AddonSettings, system (long press enter on the icon)). If you want it even faster, lower max retries.
That should get you up and running in below 9 seconds. If you lower max retries to the old default, 1, or even zero (bad idea), it should be really fast.
I’ll lower the defaults a little for 0.8.0 and maybe add a specific retries setting for Plex.tv requests.
Edit: maybe a “fast offline detection” mode that sets those limits very low.”
I have a Vero4K+ and a new Vero5, both obviously running OSMC.
I installed the zip repository on both. The 4K+ has been successfully running PM4K for a few years. No real issues. It is running v.0.7.9-rev2.
I just got the Vero5 and it is up to date with Kodi v21.1. I was able to add the zip 2.6.1 repository without issue, but when I try to install PM4K I get a message that says “Failed to install a dependency”.
It’s been a long time since I installed this from scratch, but am I missing something I need to do to get this to install properly?
Yeah, it helps when those ideas get posted in the discussion section on github, as it’s hard to keep track via this thread. Added the Bitrate sort to my list.
Yes. The server sends a certificate (or a chain of), and we verify it using the root certificate to make sure it wasn’t tampered with. If the server sends a chain, the intermediates verify the previous ones until we verify the last one in the chain with the root certificate.
This has probably been requested before, but can episode synopses (synopsises?) be moved up slightly on the Post Play screen to avoid this from happening?
