Server Version: 1.18.1.1973
Player Version: 3.104.2
Hi, I have my PMS on an Asus Tinkerboard and every video I play on Plex Media Player, with Direct Play, starts fine but stops, buffering, after some minutes (usually 5-15 min), and if I simply close and reopen the video it starts playing fine from the latest position, just to stop after another 5-15 min. If I play the same videos with the same player but served by a PMS installed on Fedora on PC, they play perfectly fine. I use a USB 2.0 HDD linked to the Tinker Board.
I donāt see how, I want to use the PMS installed on the Tinker Board, not the one on Fedora, and using the first one, as I said, the videos keep stopping every 5-15 minutes.
Iām sure many people would like to install PMS on a TinkerBoard or a Pi3/Pi4 - Which will probably work in some cases. You are however using a low end platform for an application which is not really designed for that. Itās like complaining my Windows Server 2019 runs slow on my Raspberry Pi.
Certainly recommend playing with the Tinkerboard (and Piās n such), but I doubt youāll get a lot of support from the community on why it doesnāt work.
A lot of people use Plex on SBCs without issues (with Direct Play, of course). Moreover, I can play videos in the HDD linked to the Tinker Board perfectly fine through a SAMBA share, so it definitely is a PMS problem and not a TinkerBoard or HDD or network related problem.
According to your logs I get the idea that you often use subtitles in PMP (Konvergo). PMP is dead and subtitles are PITA on most clients. Please try any other client that supports Direct Play of your media.
I can play the same videos with subtitles with PMP when they are served by my Fedora PMS, so PMP is not the problem here. Moreover, I have the same problem without subtitles, so they are not the issue.
The last edit on the github page is from 15 days ago, it does not seem dead. Have I missed some official announcement?
Thanks, I totally missed that one! I will try some other player then (as always Linux support is very optional for official things ), but I am positive that PMP is not the problem here, since, as I said, the videos plays fine with PMP if I use the Fedora PMS and not the Tinker Board one.
I tested the Plex for Kodi addon and with standard configuration it has the same problem of PMP, but it does work if I increase the default buffer size. The strange thing is that even if I increase the buffer size in PMP too, in does not solve the issue (and it works normally if the server is on Fedora), but at least I can watch my movies without interruptions. Thanks for the support
Iām guessing that itās trying to switch to a secure connection, but fails since there is no valid certificate. However, this doesnāt explain why it worked, in your case on Fedora and in my case on my Raspberry Pi, so Iām thinking that PMS and TinkerOS have some disagreements on whether it can establish a secure connection.
), but I am positive that PMP is not the problem here, since, as I said, the videos plays fine with PMP if I use the Fedora PMS and not the Tinker Board one.
