Pauses and not stuttering/lagging would all have been me hitting pause in an attempt to get the buffer filled up a bit.
I was poking around yesterday, and while I didn’t notice any lagging while playing videos, I did notice my CPU spiking up to 100% for a non-plex service and holding for a few minutes. It was the generic SVCHOSTS.exe so it’ll take a while for me to see what is actually running but it’s something for me to watch for while we continue to debug.
While I look at that does cferron’s log help at all?
@celegorm13 said:
Pauses and not stuttering/lagging would all have been me hitting pause in an attempt to get the buffer filled up a bit.
Buffering only works when you are direct playing. You weren’t, so pausing won’t help.
I was poking around yesterday, and while I didn’t notice any lagging while playing videos, I did notice my CPU spiking up to 100% for a non-plex service and holding for a few minutes. It was the generic SVCHOSTS.exe so it’ll take a while for me to see what is actually running but it’s something for me to watch for while we continue to debug.
I didn’t see anything in your log so it was not a PMS issue that I could tell. Could be one of the other Plex processes or a mis-behaving plugin. If you can provide all your logs in a zipped form, I can look in those to see if it is Plex related.
While I look at that does cferron’s log help at all?
I totally missed that. Looking at it now, it shows the transcoder slowing down and eventually stopping “speed=0”. It then picks back up, but by that time, the client already timed-out. There’s no indication why the transcoder slowed that much. It looks like the transcoder was only working in the 1.x range so any little bump in CPU load could drop it down enough to cause a buffer. This was somehow longer than a blip.
Different issue than your’s. Your transcoder was working very well and no drops below 1.0.
I’ll send you what I have when I get home today. I don’t know if I should be happy or not that my issue and cferron’s are different as it’s less info to help debug this but thanks for looking at it 
zip of all the logs attached.
There’s an issue I’m sure is in there. Monday night, I rebooted my sever (forget why but it rebooted) and afterwards Plex.exe would run but nothing could connect. Had to do a repair install. That’s been happening a lot recently but since the repair install fixed it every time I haven’t gotten too worked up over it yet.
I think I might have nailed down the lag/CPU spikes. I was out of town on Sunday when a roommate of mine texted to say it was lagging. I jumped onto my VPN and remote desktop and saw the same generic process and killed it.
The server itself is Windows Server 2012 Essentails. It has a backup system that’s supposed to run between 2 and 5am to backup my other PCs which is when I’m not using plex or anything else on that server for that matter. When I killed the process at noon I got a message that the backup service had encountered an error and crashed. Hmm… So when I got home I did a sfc run and it found and fixed multiple OS issues.
Since then I haven’t noticed lagging and between the 3 of us currently living in the house we’ve been trying. With luck that was it and then all we need yet is the WMV issue fixed that you’ve passed onto the devs.
