Hey dev,
Myself and many others are having a hard time understanding where this app is streaming the contents from. Is it local or over the WAN? Please clarify.
Thanks,
From what i can tell on traffic logs, it looks as though the stream is all local to the network, as i see the bandwidth jump to 10-15 mbps on the internal interfaces when a stream is active.
That being said, it appears that the initial discovery and viewing of the server is over the WAN, which is seems to be different from how the Chromecast, roku and every other device i have operates.
More info here on how I'm coming to that conclusion and the issues i am having: https://forums.plex.tv/topic/126286-plex-server-unavailable/page-2#entry756193
The video traffic itself is done over the local LAN. iirc due to limitations on the Xbox it has to use Plex.tv to find servers.
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Okay great, @OrionShock thanks for clarifying. I did notice the same thing as @tcpankon. That's why I asked. Also when I changed the quality above 4 Mbps the video started shuttering non stop. My home is wired with cat6 on a gigabit router and switch. Shouldn't be having any slowness. The only confusing thing for me was that I have NAT configured. The router should not let the traffic out of my network.
Okay great, @OrionShock thanks for clarifying. I did notice the same thing as @tcpankon. That's why I asked. Also when I changed the quality above 4 Mbps the video started shuttering non stop. My home is wired with cat6 on a gigabit router and switch. Shouldn't be having any slowness. The only confusing thing for me was that I have NAT configured. The router should not let the traffic out of my network.
Except that the 360 only has a 10/100 NIC in it. So your Gigabit to the 360 is only 100 Mbps.
Except that the 360 only has a 10/100 NIC in it. So your Gigabit to the 360 is only 100 Mbps.
Yeah I know.
What are you hosting your plex server on?
Qnap
Wondering if it's a lack of power/transcoding ability, as both are hard wired in. Have a look at your qnap when streaming to see what the cpu usage is.
Wondering if it's a lack of power/transcoding ability, as both are hard wired in. Have a look at your qnap when streaming to see what the cpu usage is.
Not at home right now to be specific but it's sky high. 80% high. But then again a lot of others are reporting the same behavior. The web is reporting the stream inaccurately. All my files are in mkvs. A handful of them are mp4s. It should be transcoding all of them but it says they are being direct play. Which we all know isn't true since the xbox doesn't support mkvs.
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