Probably the largest issues I have with Plex right now are long standing issues with the web client: An abysmally small client buffer size, and players not being able to be paused for over something like a couple minutes without having to stop playback and restart, else all that’ll play is what was…

No, it’s due to too small of a buffer. Inconsistent network speeds are common and solved with larger client buffers when we don’t care about things like latency.

You think Plex can just add more memory space to the device? lol. Next thing you’re gonna tell me is you can just download more memory to make your computer faster.

The web client could easily be adjusted for larger client buffers, and in web streaming large buffers are very common. Since the web client runs on PCs, a large buffer is not an issue – and since the web client is commonly used when traveling and remotely accessing one’s Plex library, having a larg…

You do know that browsers have cache limits right?

Indeed. There’s a tendency to forget how relatively “bad” many users’ connections are globally. For instance, it’s common in some places for a community to all share a single satellite link. So you have bandwidth constraints and high latency working against anything a user might want to do. Some ye…

You’re not helping. I’m a software engineer, I understand fully what it would take and the limitations of what’s being asked, and also understand that it not a big ask at all.

You think Plex is arbitrarily, for no reason, setting the buffer cache too low? Half the people here are software developers, fyi.

Stop making assumptions. Again, you’re not helping.

I’m confused. I’m just disagreeing. Am I just supposed to agree with what everybody has to say? Would that be “helping”?

Let’s just say that it’s easy to develop for the cases it’s easier to test and get feedback for. It’s the cases that make up what’s called “the long tail” that are difficult and that we’re asking for them to address better. Shrinking that tail improves the experience of everyone along it.

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mlewellyn August 30, 2024, 10:31pm 24

It is worth noting this has been a feature request since 2012. [Very Popular] myPlex: buffer content Youtube-style

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