me too +1
Support the option for each player client to allow users to customize the cache size, maximizing video caching within the user-set cache size.
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Please add this feature, very useful for high bit rates over fast, but variable, WiFi connections. Buggering 500mb-2gb or more would be a great option
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Need it! Huge 4K files mean the buffer is ridiculously low. Even on my LAN some TV with weak 2.4GHz wifi struggle because of the dumb small buffer.
Currently all the clients will reach a certain buffer size and stop buffering more content.
It would be nice to have this buffer size configurable on the client or simply continuously buffer like YouTube.
I agree. My web client stops buffering after 30 seconds, itās frustrating. I would prefer it kept loading the buffer until the entire movie is buffered or atleast increase the max buffer to a decent number like 10 minutes.
This is especially important when youāre streaming from your seedbox. Not having enough buffering is a problem when bandwidth becomes unpredictable. Please do this across devices. Roku does not have this feature. SamsungTV does but it only has a max of 100mb. Thatās not enough when streaming HD content from a seedbox.
Donāt force users to lower the quality of a video, because of something simple as allowing for a larger buffer. We are in the age of 4K, why is PLEX being so slow with that?
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me too +1
So much time has passed and this simple thing, along with many other important player issues, has not been addressed.
Writing has been on the wall for a long time here as focus has drifted from private libraries, hasnāt it? Iāve been around since the very early days, but I think itās probably finally time to move on.
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+1 Please implement!
This gets my vote, too. I canāt run a wired network, so 4K content will stutter periodically if the bufferās drained.
For me, this is on clients that have quite large amounts of disk and memory (AppleTV 4k, PC/Desktop, iOS), but as I canāt hardwire them, larger content will hiccup periodically.
Iād certainly trade a slower start to playback for larger caches, and the ability to caceh more aggressively would be greatāeven if itās just for DirectPlay content.
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Itās hard to believe this request has been open so long. Letās get this done.
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This feature suggestions forum is only here to give new people hope. People who are more familiar know that 99% of the great suggestions here never get implemented. So you could say itās where great suggestions go to die.
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Iāll add a +1, but now that weāre over 12 years into the request and there has been no dev commentary or even acknowledgement, I hold out little hope.
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@chris_decker08 sorry for pointing you here, but is there some small possibility with all the current work on transcoding and the different device-apps? *looking hopefully* 
Into the 13th year and still this hasnāt had the attention it deserves. Seeing this makes me want to cancel my sub, I donāt donāt go looking for answers much but expected this to be a setting I overlooked.
All I want is to buffer a specified amount - more - prior to the movie playing to compensate for higher bitrate or larger file sizes that my old NAS canāt handle regardless of the fact itās hardwired.
Not happy.
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+1, player can handle the bitrate, server can handle the bitrate, but the Wifi connection is flaky.
This is Plex, they are not giving us what we want. Itās meant this way.
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When you ask for something to be fixed they ask you how to fix itā¦ Like Iām not the developerā¦ lol
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Iām currently casting to a TV in Tokyo streaming from my server in Texas. The fact this almost works is amazing, but it stutters at any bitrate due to physics I assume. Buffering more seems like a simple solution?
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