# Video playback stops randomly
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/video-playback-stops-randomly/653613
**Category:** General Discussions
**Created:** [November 14, 2020, 10:29pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/video-playback-stops-randomly/653613 "2020-11-14T22:29:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@ptreese84\_gmail\_com](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ptreese84_gmail_com)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2020, 10:29pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/video-playback-stops-randomly/653613/1 "2020-11-14T22:29:29Z")
Hi,
New here. I’ve been using Plex for about two years and about 6 months ago i started having issues with videos stopping randomly. I either have to reload the page or pick a different streaming quality for it to start playing again.
Im running plex on Ubuntu Server locally on my network. I watch the videos mainly on my main PC. All wired.
I saw this post: [Buffering Video Make Media Library Unusable](https://forums.plex.tv/t/buffering-video-make-media-library-unusable/379120/7)
Thought i might give it a shot.
I do not know what it means by adding an exception in the router. Can someone point me in the right direction?
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### Author:  [@marc\_blueodyssey\_net](https://forums.plex.tv/u/marc_blueodyssey_net)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2020, 11:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/video-playback-stops-randomly/653613/2 "2020-11-14T23:48:13Z")
I’m glad that someone else has posted about this because mine has also started doing the same thing. I haven’t ever had an issue with Plex on my Samsung TV until around a day or two ago. I’m pretty sure that either the application or my televisions firmware updated and now the whole thing has became super unstable 😑
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2021, 11:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/video-playback-stops-randomly/653613/3 "2021-02-12T23:48:45Z")
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