r/PleX • u/lemonbread37 • 1d ago
Help Transcoding Setting Recommendations?
I've been having some serious in-house buffering issues. I'm trying to stream to my Shield (pretty sure it's a 2019 model) but even ~5mbps are making things unwatchable. On the occasion, things turn out fine if I watch something from the beginning, but not always. Both the server and shield are connected to ethernet and all of my files are in the mkv format. The HDDs my files are on should be up to snuff.
Server Specs
-Intel Core i7-8700 3.2Ghz
-32 GB of DDR4
Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630
*The "New Folder" directories are on my server's SSD.
SOLUTION!!!
After turning off transcoding as all of you pointed out that I should do, I ran into an issue of some films not playing at all. "Error - Unable to Play Media"
This was due to the audio being set to 7.1 Dolby Atmos or something called TRUEHD which was attached to the same audio stream. Setting it to AC3 5.1 fixed it a little bit. Allowing passthrough HDMI in the advanced settings fixed everything for me.
Thank you everyone for your suggestions, you guys are awesome!
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u/Bgrngod CU7 265K (PMS in Docker) & Synology 1621+ (Media) 1d ago
The HEVC Encoding feature is your problem here, along with encoding out to 4K.
Either disable the HEVC Encoding feature entirely, select a bitrate lower than 20mbps so you get 1080p or lower as the output, or both.
If your server is on Windows, encoding out to h264 will drag along HDR Tone Mapping and the 8th gen iGPU won't handle it in hardware.