Server suddenly buffering a lot

Plex Media Server Remote Access
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Server Version#: 1.25.3.5409
Player Version#: All

I’ve been rocking the Hetzner-GDrive-rClone-Cloudflare thing for a few years now (anyone remember Plexguide?) and it worked amazingly well, but recently it buffers so much that it is borderline unplayable, no matter what device I play on (Android TV, PS5, Android phone, Web, Windows client, Xbox, you name it). It used to play even 4K direct stream without any problems, but now I need to practically transcode everything to 360p if I want to watch.

Looking at the console the only errors that I am noticing are:

SSDP: Error parsing device schema for http://docker_ip:34400/device.xml
Error issuing curl_easy_perform(handle): 28

I am at my wits end here. I’ve updated everything, I’ve restarted everything. Cleared my Cloudflare cache. Rebuilt the docker container. Any help?

Plex Media Server Logs_2022-01-25_08-25-05.zip (3.7 MB)

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Your logs show:

  1. QSV is not available for HW transcoding
  2. Video is being reduced to 720p per the player limitation
  3. Audio is being transcoded from 6 → 2 channel per device limitation.
 08:13:10.638 [0x7f19bba83b38] DEBUG - [Transcode] Scaled up video bitrate to 10347Kbps based on 1.500000x fudge factor.
Jan 25, 2022 08:13:10.638 [0x7f19bba83b38] DEBUG - [Transcode] Scaled maximum bitrate for resolution reduction to 1451Kbps.
Jan 25, 2022 08:13:10.638 [0x7f19bba83b38] DEBUG - [Transcode] MDE: Selected protocol hls; container: mkv
Jan 25, 2022 08:13:10.638 [0x7f19bba83b38] DEBUG - [Transcode] MDE: analyzing media item 166749
Jan 25, 2022 08:13:10.638 [0x7f19bba83b38] DEBUG - [Transcode] MDE: E2 - Where Do Planets Come From?: Direct Play is disabled
Jan 25, 2022 08:13:10.638 [0x7f19bba83b38] DEBUG - [Transcode] MDE: E2 - Where Do Planets Come From?: media must be transcoded in order to use the hls protocol
Jan 25, 2022 08:13:10.638 [0x7f19bba83b38] DEBUG - [Transcode] MDE: E2 - Where Do Planets Come From?: no direct play video profile exists for http/mkv/h264
Jan 25, 2022 08:13:10.638 [0x7f19bba83b38] DEBUG - [Transcode] MDE: E2 - Where Do Planets Come From?: no direct play video profile exists for http/mkv/h264/eac3
Jan 25, 2022 08:13:10.638 [0x7f19bba83b38] DEBUG - [Transcode] Where Do Planets Come From? - video.width limitation applies: 1920 > 720
Jan 25, 2022 08:13:10.638 [0x7f19bba83b38] DEBUG - [Transcode] Where Do Planets Come From? - audio.channels limitation applies: 6 > 2
Jan 25, 2022 08:13:10.638 [0x7f19bba83b38] DEBUG - [Transcode] MDE: E2 - Where Do Planets Come From?: Direct Streaming is disabled, so video stream will be transcoded
Jan 25, 2022 08:13:10.638 [0x7f19bba83b38] DEBUG - [Transcode] MDE: E2 - Where Do Planets Come From?: no remuxable profile found, so video stream will be transcoded
Jan 25, 2022 08:13:10.638 [0x7f19bba83b38] DEBUG - [Transcode] Codecs: testing h264_nvenc (encoder)
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So the problem might be that QSV thing. I know about the 720p and the Audio transcoding. Thing is, even with the transcoding the streams used to run very smoothly. It’s just the last few weeks where nobody could watch, even when I do direct play.

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