Best mount settings for streaming ( Plex )

[calisro (Rob)]

well initial play ( for me is always bellow 10 seconds ) will always be slower with rclone as file needs to be accessed and acdcli keeps the exact path in localdb

I do not believe that is the issue. rclone can also cache the path and does for a time. Check out this post. You can see plex is doing some odd things in analyzing a file bfore playing.

Rclone vs acd_cli speeds

If you look at the logs, the dir listings isn't what is taking time. The log starts at 10:07:33 and the first file open is also at 10:07:33. To me it looks like the pre-work that plex is doing to play the video. I assume playback was pressed at started around 10:07:33. It then opened and closed that file 3 times. You can then see it download in increasing sizes and forward to the end of the file and skip back to the beginning beginning to play.. I'm assuming its doing some streaming test t…