Plex On Zidoo

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Roy Dassow

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Aug 3, 2024, 5:10:22 PM8/3/24

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Stream to Zidoo Z9x through NFS. Underlying machine has Biostar B250 motherboard from mining days, 4gigs of memory and Intel Celeron Skylake processor. I was using wireless and got powerline ethernet which was helping a bit last night as well. I can't really go over 30mbs without freezing. One video is 70mbs and it just constantly freezes but I've deduced that may be down to my hard drives as I still have 2 external drives along with the internal drives that I'm using in my mergerfs array.

The one last night does around 30mbs with action and such and would pretty much freeze through the scenes. One I turned plex off, it worked almost perfectly. I looked and have no idea what plex was doing as the scheduled tasks are supposed to be in the middle of the night, but it would keep coming on.

I just don't want to upgrade if its not needed. Obviously the CPU upgrade would be useful for hardware transcoding and getting rid of the power hungry Nvidia card would be nice, but Jellyfin and Plex are just for the wife and kids, the main use is out to the Zidoo.

I was watching the movie and I turned plex off and it stopped stuttering, did this 2 or 3 times. As soon as I turned plex off, the scenes didn't stutter anymore. I was playing the same scene basically over again as I couldn't really watch it with it stuttering.

While you appear to add Plex Media Player directly, commands actually go to your Plex Media Server which controls all players. So making sure every aspect of your Plex config is correct including your server, your Plex subscription, your Plex login, etc. are the factors involved, all of which are on the Plex side.

@Will_Price is there any specific setup guides for getting this to work. I have covered off most everything I can think of thus far.
I can confirm looking at the logs on the Shield plex media player that the command is making it to the player ok but from there it is not translating to any movement on screen.

I have got 8.3 (2614) running and I hope to have some time to try this again over the Easter break. I know you did a lot of work with Plex. As suggested I will remove the devices and set them all up again.

The domain name being used for the custom certificate. It will be published to plex.tv using the port you currently have mapped under Settings > Server > Remote Access. The domain name must match a name in the custom certificate file.

For the benefit of users with multiple network cards and for systems such as NAS or Docker where there is always another network interface which Plex client applications may try to use to connect to the Plex Media Server, there is the option to ignore the extra interfaces and for users to select a specific interface that Plex Media Server would announce to plex.tv thus ensuring local Plex clients would only try that interface. (Requires Plex Media Server 1.13.9 or later.)

If this setting is enabled, it prevents Plex Media Server from using or accepting the deprecated TLSv1.0 and v1.1 protocols, as well as legacy weak ciphers. May prevent older clients from connecting. The vast majority of users will have no reason to enable this option (and receive no benefit from doing so).

Tip!: This feature requires an active Plex Pass subscription for the Plex Media Server admin Plex account. Addresses can be specified either as an individual IP address or a range (using IP/netmasks). Do not include spaces or tabs.

You can instruct the server to automatically terminate playback sessions that remain paused for longer than the specified duration (where the value is the number of minutes). This does not affect audio-only sessions or Live TV streams. The default of 0 (zero) means the server will not automatically terminate such paused sessions.

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