Good afternoon. I have a problem with playing my videos. Some time ago I want to solve it but I can not, that’s why I ask for help in the forum.
I have a connection of 10 mb / s. Netflix works perfectly for me, but with Plex, the video I’m watching, pauses at every moment, and it becomes impossible to finish watching the video. It’s as if the buffer never loaded, then the video pauses and continues for a few seconds, then it pauses again, and so on.
I would like as much as possible to help me, since Plex is incredible but it has never worked for me to watch a full video without pauses.
Thank you very much !
sound like the Plex Server is trying to transcode but isn’t quite powerful enough?!
are you streaming from within your own network or from a remote server? the 10 Mbit/s might be a bottleneck if the streaming comes through the internet – Netflix is automatically giving you content in a lower bitrate; Plex tries to do something similar, however that requires the server to be powerful enough to perform a life transcode of the video.
I recently stumbled on a solution for this.
I had this problem with various combinations of videos and Plex on the Roku and Plex Media Player program for Windows. Some videos played fine, while others paused every few seconds to every few minutes. (Side note: Plex on Roku is set to force Direct Stream so there should have been no transcoding issues.)
I found out the ripper I was using was encoding the videos at 23.98 fps. By running the same file through a 2nd encoder with the output set for 29.97 fps, the problem disappeared. Here are the exact output settings:
Video:
Codec = h264
Size = original
Bitrate = original
Frame Rate = 29.97
Audio:
Codec = aac
Same Rate (hz) = 48000
Bitrate (bps) = 160000
Channels = Stereo
I’ve only just discovered this. Re-encoding the video has fixed two movies with known pausing issues (one on Roku, and one with the Windows Plex Media Player program) A side benefit of re-encoding for me is that high-def videos come out around 800 MB smaller.
Not sure why this works for MP4 files with different players, but it does. Hope this helps.
tom80H
Plex Pass
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sound like the Plex Server is trying to transcode but isn’t quite powerful enough?!
are you streaming from within your own network or from a remote server? the 10 Mbit/s might be a bottleneck if the streaming comes through the internet – Netflix is automatically giving you content in a lower bitrate; Plex tries to do something similar, however that requires the server to be powerful enough to perform a life transcode of the video.
–Yes, I do streaming through the server. I use it myself and my family (5 members). But I never found a movie without breaks. Using it only me!
The bitrate of the movies I use it under, less than 1000kb / s. The connection of the server and my house, both, are 10 mb / s. It should work perfect, but it is not.
Join Plex through my ps4. Please help ! Thank you !
I recently stumbled on a solution for this.
I had this problem with various combinations of videos and Plex on the Roku and Plex Media Player program for Windows. Some videos played fine, while others paused every few seconds to every few minutes. (Side note: Plex on Roku is set to force Direct Stream so there should have been no transcoding issues.)
I found out the ripper I was using was encoding the videos at 23.98 fps. By running the same file through a 2nd encoder with the output set for 29.97 fps, the problem disappeared. Here are the exact output settings:
Video:
Codec = h264
Size = original
Bitrate = original
Frame Rate = 29.97
Audio:
Codec = aac
Same Rate (hz) = 48000
Bitrate (bps) = 160000
Channels = Stereo
I’ve only just discovered this. Re-encoding the video has fixed two movies with known pausing issues (one on Roku, and one with the Windows Plex Media Player program) A side benefit of re-encoding for me is that high-def videos come out around 800 MB smaller.
Not sure why this works for MP4 files with different players, but it does. Hope this helps.
Good Morning !
You say that doing a coding of: Frame Rate = 29.97
Has it been solved?
I will try to re-encode with Handbrake to see what happens. Anyway, it should work without problems, the bitrate I use for the videos is less than 1mb / s!
Please help !
Thank you very much !
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