# \[Very Popular\] myPlex: buffer content Youtube-style
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601
**Category:** Feature Suggestions
**Tags:** networking, playback
**Created:** [August 30, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601 "2012-08-30T04:00:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@abreis](https://forums.plex.tv/u/abreis)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601/1 "2012-08-30T04:00:41Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@austinvetter](https://forums.plex.tv/u/austinvetter)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2012, 4:02am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601/2 "2012-08-30T04:02:24Z")
I would love this feature! Heard it might be tough to implement however.
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### Author:  [@abreis](https://forums.plex.tv/u/abreis)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601/3 "2012-08-30T04:09:23Z")
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> I would love this feature! Heard it might be tough to implement however.
iOS clients already do this somewhat, possibly due to the way Apple implements their video player and HTTP live streaming.
This request would be just for the Mac client, and perhaps the other desktop clients as well. We like to watch things on the big screen!
I would however love to hear from a developer about how hard it'd be to implement!
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### Author:  [@unisonruss](https://forums.plex.tv/u/unisonruss)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2012, 9:02am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601/4 "2012-08-30T09:02:53Z")
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!
+100000000000000000000000
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### Author:  [@NellyAPlex](https://forums.plex.tv/u/NellyAPlex)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2012, 9:08am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601/5 "2012-08-30T09:08:16Z")
This has my vote!
There should be a section with approved ideas to submit for votes, that would be in future releases.
Thoughts?
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### Author:  [@abreis](https://forums.plex.tv/u/abreis)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601/6 "2012-08-30T20:16:41Z")
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> And, what happens when a couple of friends want to watch something at the same time? No dice, that’s what.
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.
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### Author:  [@maccabbi](https://forums.plex.tv/u/maccabbi)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601/7 "2012-08-30T21:07:41Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@unisonruss](https://forums.plex.tv/u/unisonruss)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2012, 9:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601/8 "2012-08-30T21:30:36Z")
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@TheHoyles](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TheHoyles)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2012, 11:43am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601/9 "2012-08-31T11:43:51Z")
+1
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### Author:  [@abreis](https://forums.plex.tv/u/abreis)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601/10 "2012-09-01T15:30:22Z")
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> I used myplex to watch a show at a friends house, but it paused every 2 min or so.
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!
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### Author:  [@Eideen](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Eideen)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601/11 "2012-09-01T18:57:31Z")
+1
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### Author:  [@ajizle123](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ajizle123)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2012, 3:05am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601/12 "2012-09-04T03:05:14Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@NotYetrated](https://forums.plex.tv/u/NotYetrated)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601/13 "2012-09-05T01:28:12Z")
I would say this would be my number 1 request. Even higher priority than fixing the .mp3 playback issue 🙂
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### Author:  [@drzoidberg33](https://forums.plex.tv/u/drzoidberg33)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2012, 7:52am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601/14 "2012-09-05T07:52:20Z")
Yes please! My upload is only 512Kbit 😠
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### Author:  [@eabugda](https://forums.plex.tv/u/eabugda)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2012, 11:51pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601/15 "2012-09-05T23:51:14Z")
YES YES YES
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### Author:  [@abreis](https://forums.plex.tv/u/abreis)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2012, 3:03am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601/16 "2012-09-06T03:03:26Z")
So… how many votes make a [Popular]? :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@unisonruss](https://forums.plex.tv/u/unisonruss)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2012, 10:03pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601/17 "2012-09-06T22:03:34Z")
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> So... how many votes make a [Popular]? :rolleyes:
Something tells me it qualifies now! Please comment devs :D
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### Author:  [@thejinx0r](https://forums.plex.tv/u/thejinx0r)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601/18 "2012-09-12T15:01:22Z")
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> So... how many votes make a [Popular]? :rolleyes:
I think it's 50 and we are only one short from knowing for sure.
I really would like this feature because then I could stream at higher bitrate even though my server could not upload faster.
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### Author:  [@begunfx](https://forums.plex.tv/u/begunfx)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2012, 4:38am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601/19 "2012-09-14T04:38:17Z")
+1 Seems like a logical evolution for Plex and streaming. 🙂
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### Author:  [@trallyus](https://forums.plex.tv/u/trallyus)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2012, 6:02am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/very-popular-myplex-buffer-content-youtube-style/20601/20 "2012-09-14T06:02:17Z")
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.
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