I have my Plex server on a Raspberry Pi 3 running Ubuntu 16.04 and several clients (iOS{iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 5}, android 6.0.1{Note3}, Chromecast, XboxOne, Xbox 360.
All work just fine on the same video (smurfs lost village as an example) except Xbox One and the Xbox360 loads fine then buffers then loads then buffers. Looks like maybe network on the Xbox360? But the XboxOne i don’t understand why some videos load just fine and others take 90sec to even start. Its just suck at a black screen 00:01 and then start after 90secs.
I am guess here, but it looks like maybe the encoding of the video is the problem? But when i look on the plex server it does not show it transcoding. So i don’t think thats the issue now.
The performance of the Raspberry Pi3 has been great, When starting a video it does use about 20% or so of the CPU, but the Memory has about 70% free almost all the time. So i don’t think its the Raspberry Pi 3 ether. Looks to me like a client issue or an XboxOne issue?
Ok, i have an update. Still don’t have an answer to why some videos play right away on Xbox One and some take 90sec.
I have create two new Plex Media Servers; one is on my 2015 MacBook Pro with i7 2.5Ghz, 16GB, 512SSD, running macOS Sierra, and the other is a Dell PowerEdge R630 running Xeon E5, 128GB RAM, 240GB SSD (RAID-1) running Windows Server 2012R2 (I use this normally as my Home ESX Host). Using the same exact video i get the same results on XboxOne with all three Plex Media Servers running different OS’s!
So now i know its for sure NOT a Media Server issue. This looks to be and issue with how the Plex Client is working on Xbox One. Is anyone else have this issue, or am i just Crazy?
I am encoding my test video again with a different encoding and seeing if its the encoding that is causing the problem (I doubt it because one i don’t see Plex Transcoding it and two the video plays directly on Xbox One, So it does not need to be transcoded). The interesting thing would be is, if this does work, Plex for some reason is transcoding it and not showing me it?
Ill have another update here soon. Please can someone tell if if they are seeing the same issue or if it works just fine for them? Really need someone to point me in the right direction?
