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PleX: Direct Play Not Available w/ Subtitles?
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Have you checked the Plex knowledge base and searched on the sub and Google: Yes
Server version: 1.13.9.5456
OS: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Clients, w/ versions, if applicable: Sony Android TV
What you did? Watch a 4K movie w/ subtitles
What happened? Transcoding is very, very slow, movie buffers
What you expected? Direct play without transcoding
What are your (relevant) settings? Play at original quality
So is it normal for PleX to always transcode when watching with subtitles? I can watch 4K movies just fine without subtitles, but if I turn them on PleX starts to transcode and it can't keep up. Even with 24 CPUs it just can't do it. Is this normal? Can I not watch 4K movies with subtitles?
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Depends on the device. Most devices have to transcode with the subtitles burned-in instead of direct playing them with the subtitles overlayed. I would guess this is the case with the Sony Android TV. I know the Plex Media Player app for Mac and Windows can play subtitles without needing to transcode but am not sure of any others.
wireless direct connection between two pico w like esp-now?
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Does the pi pico w have something similar like esp-now to connect two devices wireless without an access point?
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OP, learn anything more on this?
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Buffering on Apple TV w/ 10mbps Direct Play video. WHY?!
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I've been having an issue over the past few weeks where videos constantly buffer on my Apple TV, giving the dreaded “Your connection to the server is not fast enough to stream this video.” error on pretty much all videos. Here is some detail:
I am Direct Playing using the new enhanced player (w/ Plex Pass).- The video is a 1080p video, using 10-11mbps of local bandwidth (screenshot from Tautulli).- The server is a wired 1Gbps connection (screenshot) and the Apple TV is connected wired as well. Network is a Google Wifi network.- The issue happens even if I transcode to 1080p. I have a dedicated video card handling transcoding and hardware transcoding enabled so it's not on the GPU side.- The video does work fine when transcoding with 720p.- Tried disabling Large Send Offload. Still happens.- I have verbose logging enabled, but I'm not sure what to look for in these logs that might identify the issue.
This also seems to happen randomly so it's really hard to pin down exactly what's causing it. On Saturday night, the issue occurred so I transcoded with 720p and we were able to watch. I later tried watching again with Direct Play and it worked fine. On Sunday, we watched a 1080p movie with Direct Play last night on our Roku Stick and it worked just fine...
This has been racking my brain for weeks now, so I'm turning to PleX as a last resort. Anyone have any tips?
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Have you tried to disable the experimental enhanced video player on the client side?
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