Can you elaborate on the Plex issues as of late? One of the guys I share my instance with has reported a lot of buffering that I haven’t been able to reproduce.
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Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I haven’t had issues this bad, but Plex has been buffering a lot more lately. If moving to Jellyfin didn’t involve new hardware for me, I would have already jumped ship.
VonReposti@feddit.dk 1 month ago
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Sudden buffering followed by a very long load time before it can get going again. Lowering the resolution resolves it for me.
What I’m seeing only on certain files though. And those files will always buffer again at the same point in playback. But it happens on things I watched without issue prior to my last update. So I suspect it’s a problem with a specific codec, but I haven’t taken the time to validate my hunch.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It shouldn’t be buffering at all if you’re direct playing.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Why would Jellyfin need new hardware?
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I run plex on a synology nas whose kernel is too out of date for hardware accelerated transcoding in Jellyfin.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Can’t you just use a newer kernel?
Wouldn’t this also be a significant security issue?
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
No, diskstation runs a significantly modified 2.4 kernel. They say they backport CSM mitigations/fixes into their kernel, but community pressure is crowing by the year for them to update.
trd@feddit.nu 1 month ago
I recently went from synology video to Jellyfin cause the last update on synology dont support the video hosting anymore. I run a syn 920. And its sweet only issue so far have been able to use jellyfin to cast to Chromecast.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
It’s been about a year since I tried it, so it’s probably worth another. Back then it did OK if I was doing straight passthrough (though CPU load was noticeably higher) but I got a lot of buffering when I’d try to have it transcode anything.
I host quite a few things on it (via docker) so the 920 is starting to show its load. I suspect that and the lack of hardware acceleration are the source of my issues.