Plex running poorly

[AceMilo]

Whenever I watch a high res, high bitrate video using plex to stream to my Xbox One it will randomly freeze up and buffer. It can happen half way through the movie, or during the credits. It can happen once or 40 times. I'm running gigabit everywhere and Plex transcodes on the fly so it should compensate and give me a seamless experience but it's not. It's probably not Plex itself, it's probably a setting or the NIC or something that's doing this but I don't know what it is. Can anyone give me some pointers on how to fix this? Has anyone run into this? It's not reproducable on demand, it happens when it happens, so it's not like I can try something, see if it fixes it, repeat.

Thanks
Mark

 

[Jailer]

This is a question best asked, and answered, on the plex forums.

 

[SweetAndLow]

Whenever I watch a high res, high bitrate video using plex to stream to my Xbox One it will randomly freeze up and buffer. It can happen half way through the movie, or during the credits. It can happen once or 40 times. I'm running gigabit everywhere and Plex transcodes on the fly so it should compensate and give me a seamless experience but it's not. It's probably not Plex itself, it's probably a setting or the NIC or something that's doing this but I don't know what it is. Can anyone give me some pointers on how to fix this? Has anyone run into this? It's not reproducable on demand, it happens when it happens, so it's not like I can try something, see if it fixes it, repeat.

Thanks
Mark

Cool story, try providing the minimum required information.

Hardware specs, freenas version, Plex server version, Plex client?

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[diedrichg]

Switch to Emby

 

[scrappy]

Without hardware and software info it's hard to say for sure. Forum rules state to provide this information. Anyway, if I were to guess, it sounds to me that your CPU is not keeping up with transcoding the video. Is Plex actually transcoding the video or playing it back natively on your Xbox? Transcoding seems a bit weird on an Xbox when it's on your LAN.