[Very Popular] myPlex: buffer content Youtube-style

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I also agree. This would in fact be awesome.



Thinking back, there were a couple of evenings when I thought of watching something a friend shared with me.

But often, I was like: Hmm, no, itĀ“s just gonna buffer every minute and I donĀ“t know if I can really watch the entire video and god forbid I accidently hit the forward button on the remoteā€¦ B)



So yeah: Pro stability! :slight_smile:

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I wonder if this is even being considered. Weā€™ve had zero feedback from devs and ninjas in here.

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EDIT: I realized Iā€™m not supposed to be posting +1ā€™s. Sorry everyone, no more of these from meā€¦

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+1ā€™s are utterly, completely, absurdly less than useless. Vote up the original post.

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Wow, a lot of votes!

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I just signed up for a PlexPass and this is definitely the first thing Iā€™m upvoting!

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Same here. Just signed up. Stunned that Plex doesnā€™t implement better buffering protocols. Tried watching something from home NAS on my iPhone while at work and 1080p original source chokes while being streamed. I have a high-end NAS and a 35 up connection, while my employerā€™s Wi-Fi is 16 down. Should be smooth sailing. I get absolutely NO problems streaming any content when i use AirVideo on iPhone, streaming from my home desktop. The issue is clearly in the way Plex implements streaming, bit rate modulation, and buffering.

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Is there any progress on this feature request? I encounted problems last night that this would have totally solved so I'd love for it to be implemented.

A lot of the other feature requests are fairly superficial but this really would have a positive impact on the usage of plex.
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Iā€™m guessing this affects only a small number of Plex users, and perhaps none of the developers.



Iā€™m also wondering if the buffering is implemented on Plex, or if when they use stuff like HTTP Live Streaming, if some library takes care of it for them.



As an off-topic, lately Iā€™ve been having to turn quality down to 2Mbps and sometimes even 1.5 Mbps, and itā€™s really ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– .



Does anyone use Netflix on a slow link around here? I heard they implemented this sort of thing.

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You could run a test by watching something on netflix, currently House of Cards ep1 is free to watch without an account, you could then use a program to manually fix the amount of bandwidth you're using.

A few example for mac are here: http://stuffthatspins.com/2012/06/18/mac-os-x-bandwidth-limiting-bandwidth-throttle/
A program for windows is here: http://seriousbit.com/netbalancer/
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Iā€™m not an expert on this, but the web player buffer seems to be handled by a different 3rd party component within Plex: JWPlayer. It looks like Plex transcode the video if needed and then spits it to JWPlayer where it takes care of streaming it to the end-users browser. I donā€™t know how much configuration options the Plex team has on JWPlayer, but I think thatā€™s the bottleneck here. Plex can transcode the entire movie, but if the web player canā€™t hold more than X amount of buffer, then thereā€™s not really much the team can do unless they write there own web player, which seems like a lot of work.



http://www.longtailvideo.com/jw-player/learn-more/

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Whole reason I signed up!
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+1 from me