Issues in the last month.
- When I play all shows I get a “buffering” dialog even though the Xbox should be direct playing everything.
- I cannot skip ahead or fast forward any MOST videos that I play. Seems to be just H264 videos, but not all of them for some reason
- At some point the videos will all stop (very rarely will they finish) and then replaying them with the “resume” option will start them from the beginning. This is super frustrating when combined with the previous point (no skip ahead)
- If I go into the quality setting and force a transcode to a lower quality I gain the ability to skip ahead. But then transcoding will mess up at some point while playing and then trying to replay the video will most likely put me in a buffer hang.
Here is an example of a video that doesn’t work (not fast forwarding, will not resume and will crash):
And this video will play (can fastforward, will resume and plays to the end just fine):
I don’t see anything with the encoding that would suggest why one would play and not the other.
All of these videos play fine on my Roku and my phone with skip ahead and resume functions working as expected.
Setup:
- I have an 18 core, 96MB RAM, HP Proliant G8 server as my Plex Server running plexmediaserver_1.11.1.4760-58bcb2957_amd64.deb
- I have the Xbox One App 2.2.1.70 (Xbox is wired to a gigabit connection)
Not just you. Since the October Surprise the xbox app has done nothing but regress and degrade.
@Tdawg410 said:
Not just you. Since the October Surprise the xbox app has done nothing but regress and degrade.
I appreciate the corroboration but is there anything that can be done?
Nope, not just you. I’ve cancelled my Premium subscription and am really starting to hunt for alternatives.
Plex Media Server constantly fails to start properly.
Duplicate detection is way off in personal media libraries. It constantly picks one video, then erroneously attributes a bunch of other videos, seemingly at random, as duplicates regardless of name, file size, resolution or anything else that might even explain a false positive. The only solution is to temporarily remove the video from the library, empty trash and refresh, and then put it back in and then, within a week, it’s picked another random video to do this with.
I have to Repair the server every week to fix a transcoder crashing issue.
Several times it has stopped playing a video many minutes before the end and marked it as watched - thus indicating it thinks it has played everything.
I’ve had enough. It used to just work but over the past few months, it’s become a liability.
It does seem that you are having a lot of issues, but I am having no issues with the Plex Media Server. It has been rock solid for year.
My issues are solely with the Xbox One App in the past month or so recently.
Ah, yes… I have had issues with playback on the Xbox One too - more so than the Roku. I’ve found that the only way to get anything to play on the Xbox One without buffering/stopping, etc. is to switch to Transcode only… but then, as I mention, the transcoder has a habit of crashing or stalling recently.
I do appreciate, though, that perhaps this wasn’t the best thread to vent my spleen. A mixture of being one of the first results on Google and an incredibly frustrating day with a server that just wouldn’t start.
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So I decided to try your competitor, Emby, because the buffering was not stopping, only getting worse and ■■■■ that used to work no longer did.
Emby was setup in minutes and all my stuff now plays. I will be stopping my Plex Pass and I am now a lifetime Emby subscriber.
If anyone is reading this and fed up of paying for something that doesn’t work, well I can tell you other options exist and they are just as good.
