All devices work for me flawlessly, however a few family members have Samsung TV’s.
Always worked great on them all.
But recently, after a server rebuild, the samsung tv’s are now struggling to play anything…
Constantly buffering…
Playing anything, on literally anything else, works fine… direct or transcoding…
At a loss as to why…
I try to avoid transcoding as hell, because I understand that the players should be able to play my MKVs and MP4s directly. Only 4K is understandable to be transcoded in certain scenarios.
Direct play is 100% compatible and just plays the file as if it were actually on the device.
Direct Stream means is it can play a h264, ac3 file as an example but the container ie mkv, avi it can’t so Plex repackages it in realtime, no recoding etc.