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Still my number one request to increase usability of Plex 10-fold.Â
+1 great intuitive feature. Â my only gripe is about youtube's implementation of said feature. Â When you rewind within the confines of already buffered content, it starts over from that point and you lose all forward buffered data and you must re-buffer the data you just lost.
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dear plex devs : please comment on this.
thanks !
I've been thinking the same thing since i've started using plex. I think they need to change their player or something.Â
My friend showed me a trick. Pretty cool stuff. We both have plex and similar nas box. The only difference is the ISP provider and location. Anyway We both tried to stream contents from plex from our PMS and they started buffering. I have 50down 30up. He has 50down 50 up. Makes no sense why it is buffering. Same movie same buffering result. He went to his nas box and share the file to himself. Copy the shared link to VLC player and played the whole damn movie without buffering not once. Tried several movies and they all played fine.Â
Weird thing, At home myplex/web buffers too. My devices (ios, roku) used but don't anymore. My samsung either plays the file well, buffers, or just don't play it at all :D
I've been thinking the same thing since i've started using plex. I think they need to change their player or something.
My friend showed me a trick. Pretty cool stuff. We both have plex and similar nas box. The only difference is the ISP provider and location. Anyway We both tried to stream contents from plex from our PMS and they started buffering. I have 50down 30up. He has 50down 50 up. Makes no sense why it is buffering. Same movie same buffering result. He went to his nas box and share the file to himself. Copy the shared link to VLC player and played the whole damn movie without buffering not once. Tried several movies and they all played fine.
Weird thing, At home myplex/web buffers too. My devices (ios, roku) used but don't anymore. My samsung either plays the file well, buffers, or just don't play it at all :D
There are a couple things possibly at play here:
- Your NAS device is not powerful enough to transcode what you're trying to play - this will cause buffering that looks exactly the same as network issues
- The recent change in transcoders may have knocked your NAS box out of the ring - I had this myself due to still using the same Plex box that I've been using for years
Since your Roku used to work, and it now buffers, try changing the transcoder settings on the Roku channel from "Universal" to "Legacy" (if you're on an older version of the channel, these will be named "Experimental" and "Stable", respectively)
You can make this change also in the iOS clients, and I have no idea about the Samsung TV.
Look more closely at the files you're trying to play; test with a 480p video that's downloaded from YouTube, load it in to Plex, and see if it buffers
To really get a handle on it, find out how to watch your NAS devices CPU usage in real time while you test playback: maxing out is a good sign with you're pushing the limits in a way that will cause buffering.
There are a couple things possibly at play here:
- Your NAS device is not powerful enough to transcode what you're trying to play - this will cause buffering that looks exactly the same as network issues
- The recent change in transcoders may have knocked your NAS box out of the ring - I had this myself due to still using the same Plex box that I've been using for years
Since your Roku used to work, and it now buffers, try changing the transcoder settings on the Roku channel from "Universal" to "Legacy" (if you're on an older version of the channel, these will be named "Experimental" and "Stable", respectively)
You can make this change also in the iOS clients, and I have no idea about the Samsung TV.
Look more closely at the files you're trying to play; test with a 480p video that's downloaded from YouTube, load it in to Plex, and see if it buffersTo really get a handle on it, find out how to watch your NAS devices CPU usage in real time while you test playback: maxing out is a good sign with you're pushing the limits in a way that will cause buffering.
I said they used to but not anymore. And yes you are right about the roku universal transcoder. When i use it the buffering is none stop but as soon as switch back to legacy playback works fine. All my movies are mostly 1080p. About 10% are 720. All my tv shows are also 720. My iOS devices always used to buffer to the point i never used the app. After Plex pushed the iOS universal trascoder that stopped. Clearly the issue isn't the nas box. When I am playing contents from plex and i am monitoring the cpu, the cores are not maxed out.
yes we need this
Voted, looks like a great idea!
I share my server with my parents in NZ and my sister in the UK. I have a 5 megabit upload connection and they are often forced to lower the quality to a virtually unwatchable level in order to not have excessive buffering.
They have no problem with higher quality YouTube.
Please Please.
This would be an awesome feature!
Why have we not heard a response from Plex on this?Â
Why have we not heard a response from Plex on this?
Maybe they don't like my sunglasses. I should get new ones.
Seriously, though: the most requested feature (multiuser/parental controls) is still only half-way done. I'm guessing something like this would come after those things.
I could list a half-dozen reasons why this isn't getting any attention (we think), but it'd all be speculation.
Perhaps they'll surprise us all with the next big update.
"Responding to" and "attending to" feature requests are commonly misconstrued as synonymous in Plexville. In fact, if the developers responded to all of the requests, they would have precious little time left to attend to them.
If it is on the most-liked list, they are attentive even if not textually responsive. That's why voting is so important.
I would love this feature! Voted!
Whats the progress on this guys? ^_^
+1's are utterly, completely, absurdly less than useless. Vote up the original post.
This.
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Great idea. I actually thought Plex did this already.
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Can someone tell me how this is different than the "throttle buffer" setting?
