Still buffering....help?

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Trying to work out the root cause of my buffering when playing content via Plex.

I am attempting to play the content on an LG 65 B7 TV via XPlay App. The server is a 2012 2.9 Ghz Intel Core i7 Macbook Pro with 8GB DDR3 RAM. The content is served from an HDD connected via Thunderbolt.

Both the laptop and the TV are connected via Ethernet cable.

When I go to the Plex Media Player when the content is running it says “Direct Play” so the transcoding isn’t the issue, I don’t think. I have opened the Activity Monitor on the laptop and it never seems to go above 5 or 6%.

Sometimes it seems to work flawlessly on 4K content, other times it buffers on 1080p content.

Can anyone help with any possible suggestions as to the root cause?

Thanks

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I don’t know if it can help… I had the same problem for some time. I found out that in my plex server, in settings, under the devices tabs, the chrome browser was there. I just removed it and used firefox to go to my plex server intead of chrome. Since then, I never encountered this problem again. You might want to try this…

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Thanks PulsarBab I have switched it over to Firefox and will see if it helps.