Okie. 99 percent of the time Im watching on my desktop so its open in the web browser. the other 1 percent is on my xbox where I notice very litle lag if any at all.
@MaxTheSpy said:
Okie. 99 percent of the time Im watching on my desktop so its open in the web browser. the other 1 percent is on my xbox where I notice very litle lag if any at all.
Please always use āPlex Media Playerā if possible and never the Web client. PMP is available for Windows and Mac.
Ok, so this should get rid of the need to run everything through handbrake? What are the reccomended formats for the plex server
@MaxTheSpy said:
Ok, so this should get rid of the need to run everything through handbrake? What are the reccomended formats for the plex server
With Plex Media Player you should be able to just play anything directly. No need to re-encode with handbrake.The XBox is a problem. Take a look at the following doc for supported formats. However, h264 video with aac audio in an mp4 container is always your best option and generally very well supported.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/203824396-what-media-formats-are-supported/
@uglymagoo said:
@MaxTheSpy said:
Ok, so this should get rid of the need to run everything through handbrake? What are the reccomended formats for the plex serverWith Plex Media Player you should be able to just play anything directly. No need to re-encode with handbrake.The XBox is a problem. Take a look at the following doc for supported formats. However, h264 video with aac audio in an mp4 container is always your best option and generally very well supported.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/203824396-what-media-formats-are-supported/
So handbrake for the xbox is needed then.
@MaxTheSpy said:
So handbrake for the xbox is needed then.
But only for some of your files. Do you have any idea how long it takes to re-encode a video? You can also use the Plex āOptimizeā feature to let Plex do this for you. However, It will take hours per video!
https://support.plex.tv/articles/213095317-creating-optimized-versions/
@uglymagoo said:
@MaxTheSpy said:
So handbrake for the xbox is needed then.But only for some of your files. Do you have any idea how long it takes to re-encode a video? You can also use the Plex āOptimizeā feature to let Plex do this for you. However, It will take hours per video!
https://support.plex.tv/articles/213095317-creating-optimized-versions/
for me, encoding a video is about 1hr 40min. so I dont really want to do that. but I also want to make them all uniform. My ocd will be killing me
ok So I downloaded the client for windows and within the first 4 min of watching the following movie there was a huge buffer. Settings are set to original:
Codec H264
Bitrate 2063 kbps
Bit Depth 8
Chroma Location left
Chroma Subsampling 4:2:0
Color Primaries bt709
Color Range tv
Color Space bt709
Frame Rate 23.976 fps
Height 808
Level 4.1
Profile high
Ref Frames 4
Stream Identifier 1
Width 1920
Codec AAC
Channels Stereo
Bitrate 98 kbps
Language English
Audio Channel Layout stereo
Profile lc
Sampling Rate 48000 Hz
Stream Identifier 2
Is there something wrong with this?
When I check the stream status where it shows whos playing what It says direct play but there is still buffer.
on the server when I do ātopā in the commandline it shows me this:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
14986 plex 20 0 461948 244136 10708 S 391.1 27.2 3:13.72 Plex Transcoder
I see. Either the display in the Web frontend is broken or it was an old transcode that somehow āgot lostā. Please restart your Plex server for now (sudo systemctl restart plexmediaserver). If this is happening again please use the following command to show use the transcoder command line arguments: ps aux | grep -i transcoder
@uglymagoo said:
I see. Either the display in the Web frontend is broken or it was an old transcode that somehow āgot lostā. Please restart your Plex server for now (sudo systemctl restart plexmediaserver). If this is happening again please use the following command to show use the transcoder command line arguments:ps aux | grep -i transcoder
Awesome Thank you, Ill keep a look out. handbraked and leveled my copy of the hobbit and no buffer whatsoever on the xbox.
@uglymagoo said:
I see. Either the display in the Web frontend is broken or it was an old transcode that somehow āgot lostā. Please restart your Plex server for now (sudo systemctl restart plexmediaserver). If this is happening again please use the following command to show use the transcoder command line arguments:ps aux | grep -i transcoder
Ok it says its transcoding H256 to H256 which is weird. Here is the snippit I got
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ps aux | grep -i transcoder
plex 18561 280 21.4 362700 192500 ? Rl 23:41 19:10 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Transcoder -co dec:#0x01 h264 -ss 655 -i /media/pi/My Passport/Movies/Easy A (2010).mp4 -filter_complex [0:#0x01]scale=w=128 0:h=694[0];[0]format=pix_fmts=yuv420p|nv12[1] -map [1] -metadata:s:0 language=eng -codec:0 libx264 -crf:0 23 -maxrate:0 1277k -bufsize:0 2554k -r:0 23.975999999999999 -preset:0 veryfast -level:0 5.1 -x264opts:0 subme=0 :me_range=4:rc_lookahead=10:me=dia:no_chroma_me:8x8dct=0:partitions=none -force_key_frames:0 expr:gte(t,655+n _forced*5) -map 0:#0x02 -codec:1 copy -copypriorss:1 0 -f dash -min_seg_duration 5000000 -skip_to_segment 132 -time_delta 0.0625 -manifest_name http://127.0.0.1:32400/video/:/transcode/session/e0yz5h0m8hkbndedmhmgt5la/ 8007fb55-576b-46ce-8232-04c9277685e8/manifest -avoid_negative_ts disabled -map_metadata -1 -map_chapters -1 d ash -start_at_zero -copyts -y -nostats -loglevel quiet -loglevel_plex error -progressurl http://127.0.0.1:324 00/video/:/transcode/session/e0yz5h0m8hkbndedmhmgt5la/8007fb55-576b-46ce-8232-04c9277685e8/progress
pi 18822 0.0 0.0 4376 536 pts/0 S+ 23:48 0:00 grep --color=auto -i transcoder
pi@raspberrypi:~ $
Letās see WHY Plex is choosing to transcode / resize the video. The Plex server logs contain this decision process. If you know how to work with vim or nano just try to play this movie again and then take a look at the file /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Logs/Plex Media Server.log. The relevant lines start with DEBUG - MDE. Plex will tell you exactly why itās transcoding. If you donāt know how to do this just upload the logs here and I will tell you.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200250417-plex-media-server-log-files/
Here is the zip file for the logs, I have no idea what I am looking for here.
You have set a quality limit in the XBOX One client or the server (e.g. WAN settings): max. 4000 kbps. And your XBOX One thinks your server is remote, i.e. not in the same network. The bitrate of the video is greater than 4000 kbps, thatās why your server is transcoding.
It might be enough to just increase this bandwidth limit. Then, please fix remote access. And is your XBOX One really not in the same network?
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200931138-troubleshooting-remote-access/
@uglymagoo said:
You have set a quality limit in the XBOX One client or the server (e.g. WAN settings): max. 4000 kbps. And your XBOX One thinks your server is remote, i.e. not in the same network. The bitrate of the video is greater than 4000 kbps, thatās why your server is transcoding.It might be enough to just increase this bandwidth limit. Then, please fix remote access. And is your XBOX One really not in the same network?
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200931138-troubleshooting-remote-access/
That particular Xbox one is my girlfriends at her house. So no its not on the same network.
so should I handbrake everything in my library?
I have set the Internet streaming to maximum and checked the box that says play smaller movies at original size. Also checked the automatic adjustment quality beta feature. This was set to 720p in my settings and I didnt catch it. could this be why it was transcoding so much?
used this link: https://support.plex.tv/articles/227715247-server-settings-bandwidth-and-transcoding-limits/
Ok so after everything my RPi inst transcoding everything, just on my PC where I do most of my watching, on my xbox, tablet, and other xbox It all streams fine.
