Unnecessary High Bandwidth Relative to Media Bitrate

[FordGuy61]

Try remuxing the file into a new MP4 container or into a MKV container.

See the two threads linked below. It looks like you’ve the same issue.

DS918+ Server Feeding Excessive Data to Clients

Server Version#: 1.19.4.2902-69560ce1e-x86_64 Player Version#: 1.12.1.1253-c29aa096 Device: DS918+ DSM: 1.19.4.2902-69560ce1e-x86_64 Since one of the recent server updates, I’m assuming as early as firmware version 1.19.3.2831-181d9145d-x86_64, my server has been feeding excessive data to clients when set to “Original” quality. This does not happen to when a video is transcoded and only applies to local play, from what I’ve been able to test. The issue seems to only affect .mp4 videos. Bot…

High Bandwidth via Direct Play on Windows 10

Server Version#: 1.19.4.2902 Player Version#: 1.12.0.1232-aacabe78 Plex Media Server Logs_2020-06-08_20-26-27.zip (5.2 MB) The Plex for Windows app has been behaving very odd in terms of the network usage. Network send on the server and receive on the client player both show network usage of over 200Mbps when playing back any 1080p 8Mbps content. The playback buffers constantly and is unwatchable. Switch to the Plex Media Player version 2.58.0.1076-38e019da on the same device and playback is…