Seeking always gives me a small heart attack

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I’ve been using Plex for six years, and one thing that I’ve silently been hoping gets addressed is the fact that seeking forward or back (using the jump 30 sec forward or 10 sec back buttons or keys) sometimes hangs the whole movie, and I have to stop playback, and resume.

Is this something experienced by other users?

I am assuming this has something to do with my stack, which includes a remote server with cloud storage. However, stopping and resuming always works. So I’m wondering why Plex can’t just ‘try more’ behind the scenes when seeking seems stuck for more than, say, 10 seconds.

This happens on various players: Nvidia Shield, Web, Plex desktop, Plex Media Player, etc

Furthermore, I’m wondering if anyone has discussed keyframe seeking. I remember that on some local media players, there is an option to seek directly to keyframes, which makes seeking instant, and presumably easier on the system.

Anyway, mostly I’m posting to see if hangs during seeking are common with others, and just a part of being a Plex user, or if I’m more of an isolated case…

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Hi matijaerceg,
that’s interesting, but your stack is probably the issue, I have no explanation other than that. But I totally agree with the keyframe issue, on some videos I have, keyframes are as rare as power outages in New York, and you therefore only see the seeked frame until a new keyframe arrives

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I’d like to add that sometimes it happens even with files that are local to the server.

The server is not nearly maxing out CPU/IO/RAM.

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But does it happen to certain files only? That’d be a video file issue (inefficient coding).
If it happens randomly, so taken the same video it sometimes works, sometimes it doesn’t? That might be Plex related.

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