Better buffering of content from remote myPlex servers
Many domestic Internet uplinks are weak. People want to view and share their content from their home Internet. So:
Buffer content Youtube-style. When I pause a stream, keep caching it ahead as much as I want it to.
This is a great idea, that:
- would give much better viewing experience from remote and shared myPlex servers.
- is intuitive: everyone who's ever used Youtube already knows how this works.
- lets you view high quality content (e.g. 4Mbps) from servers in weak uplinks (e.g. 1Mbps or less) by simply waiting before viewing said content.
Infinite cache-ahead, like Youtube or Vimeo or any flash player does, would improve myPlex streaming tremendously.
This NEEDS to happen! Most people do not have great upload speed, but want to watch HD. And, what happens when a couple of friends want to watch something at the same time? No dice, that’s what. This would also save the issues with video dropping out to re-buffer (like what happens often on devices such as the Roku). Please, this is officially my most wanted feature. Transcode->Buffer->Play. Seems beautiful., and will put Plex on a whole new level!
Heh, I have the exact same problem, I've shared some of my content with a couple of friends, everything's great until the laws of probability kick in and three people want to be streaming something.
Plus, the bitrate in a lot of content varies wildly throughout the stream, so much larger caching makes complete sense.
I was wishing for this a couple of days ago. I used myplex to watch a show at a friends house, but it paused every 2 min or so. A better buffer would have made the show much more watchable.
YES!!! Whenever I go home to visit family I always get embarrassed when a video stops to buffer, because it happens almost every time. It could be avoided...and I'm not even utilizing my full upload speed from my home server.
Please up-vote this feature everyone, click the green "+" in the first post.
It's annoying, because depending on network conditions sometimes it's great, others it sucks. We usually have movie night on fridays and it works so-so, but last night every 3 to 4 minutes it'd break, what a pain.
And it's sad because 2 or 3 minutes of prebuffering would've pretty much solved it, which is basically the time to get some drinks and popcorn going.
Decent amount of votes though, hopefully this'll get some attention!
I absolutely need this feature. My upload speed is an abysmal 1mbps so HD looks awful. If i could do some buffering I would let my remote client wait 15-20 minutes and then have HD content. Please, please, please add this feature! No joke I will donate >$50 if this is done soon.
I would love this feature as well as I am using plex on the synology DS212J nas and have times when using the pc plex media center stops playing the video stream and then says buffering and then buffering until plex media center just shuts down and then when I go back to watch the same video, the start time has usally jumped ahead in the video a lot.
Hopefully a longer buffer time would fix this error. I am trying a few things to fix it and don’t want to submit any logs until I try a few things first though.
