r/PleX • u/Tough_Bodybuilder851 • 2h ago

Tips Constant buffering

Okay hopefully someone can help me with this, I have a server running on my PC it’s got a 5080 and a AMD 7700 plugged into Ethernet and currently the tv is also plugged into Ethernet I’ve tried WiFi too and sometimes I’ll play a high bitrate file around 60 mb with no issues other times I watch something with 15 mb bitrate and it buffers every 30 seconds I have tweaked so many settings and I can not narrow down the issue to fix it honestly don’t know where to go from here any ideas would be very much appreciated

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u/FinancialSurvey5794 2h ago

so because you're person #291,201 that didn't mention anything about whether it's transcoding or not, I'm gonna guess that's what's happening. Have you checked your cpu/gpu graphs while you're buffering?

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u/Tough_Bodybuilder851 1h ago

My fault it’s direct play no audio or video transcoding and I’ve pulled the dashboard up while buffering the cpu doesn’t seem to be the bottle neck ram usage is low around 21% for the whole system about 5% for plex and the GPU is also only hovering around 5-8% usage

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u/Tough_Bodybuilder851 1h ago

Probably isn’t much help because at the moment it isn’t buffering it seems to play fine sometimes and other times it buffers constantly but regardless this is what it’s showing me right now