I use Crontab (root)
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I know many of you have this issueā¦ pretty annoying one I might add.
Any idea on how to speed up the delay in playing media files from ACD in combination with Hetzner servers?
Plex server is located on Hetzner 1Gbit/sec up/downā¦ takes around 10+ secs to start a movie.
Using rclone mounts.
Also Plex sometimes starts analyzing the media when itās requested to play. All libraries have been analyzed.
Takes some time (huge library)ā¦
It seems that ACDcli mounts perform a lot better? I am not sure on how to set this up with rclone encrypted mediaā¦
Thanks for the support 
i am using a hetzner server and have the same problem. what are your mount settings for acd_cli?
i used acd_cli a while ago and it was really unstable and lost my mountpoint every few hours.
Running the Plex Media Server without having the media local, but in an external cloud (acd for example) might be the issue here. I also noticed slow downloads from ACDā¦ like 40Mbpsā¦ and lessā¦ whereas uploading was around 300-400Mbpsā¦
Iāve dropped the dedicated server, which lacked the storage space and opted for a new dedicated server with 24TBā¦ will be set to a Raid 5, so i will end up around 18TB or soā¦
Will be testing this shortly (I hope) as it seems that Hetzner isnāt setting up servers in the weekendā¦ at least not all serversā¦ too badā¦ as I wanted to spend some time on itā¦ and yes I hate waiting! 
Ps I have no experience with acdcliā¦
Which server did you get? SX61 ?
You planning on running it with RAID 0?
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SX61 yesā¦
RAID 0 is a bit risky. Thereās no redundancyā¦ RAID 5 and 1 disk failure allowed without dataloss. I know that I will lose 6TB! (5.5) of data ā¦ But then again starting all over in case of a crash isnāt something I am looking for either.
What would you suggest
Not sure on how Hetzner operates when a harddisk failure occurs and when itās out of warranty or even in warranty for that matter? 
BTWā¦ on default ubuntu install it will be a RAID 6! ā¦ Hell no
I followed these steps yesterday to use ngnix and cloudflare. This has dropped load times down to 3-5 seconds (some load like they are local). Using crypt on ACD.
https://quickbox.io/wiki/set-up-a-cdn-for-plex-with-cloudflare-nginx/
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First of all if you have a hard disk crash they will take your server offline for 1 hour to replace it.
If you loose all your data you have to reinstall everything - you will start again from rescue and you need to restore everything (from ACD?).
So if you want to have redundancy and āloseā less disk space you go with RAID 5ā¦
BTWā¦ I have the SX61 as well running on RAID 5ā¦ New stuff I keep local, old stuff I have on ACDā¦
Tested the SX61 with RAID 5ā¦ installed my stuff and it does perform better (loading times).
However itās a fixed systemā¦ no expansion. So it will stay 4x6TBā¦ Thereās an option to move to a higher spec systemā¦ But then againā¦ it does cost a lot ā¦ So I dumped this server aswell ā¦ probrably heading back to a previous system with SSD running Plex with rclone crypt ACD. Will be tweaking it and hope for it to improve.
hi guysā¦i have a question. How rclone/plex work during the start up process of streaming video? Iāll explain better. Iāve notice with vnstat that when i start a video, pass 10 seconds until i see a 90 Mb download traffic which is the maximum of my connection and then i see upload traffic streaming and the video start. So what happen during this seconds? how itās possible to maximize the network download speed instantly when a video start. Obviously with local file thereās no download traffic and the video start immediately. I use ACD.
When you start playback the rclone mount will work full speed until your buffer is filled, I assume you have 100M to 1G buffer set. The main problem with ACD is that sometimes it can take couple of seconds before file is actually being copied.
Iāve set 1G buffer. I donāt think is an acd problem, but maybe a concurrent problem between plex and rclone. Rclone have to download and provide a file to plex that have to choose if direct stream or transcoding.
I attach my log. They refer to a single video start.
As we see it gets to 20 Mb after a few seconds and then remains stationary to few Kb for 30/40 seconds. The file is downloaded only at the end when it reach 58 Mb and simultaneously starts the upload and video start. What I want to know is why the download stops. Probably forcing rclone to download immediately the files at maximum speed, streaming would go faster.
Monitoring eth0ā¦ (press CTRL-C to stop)
getting trafficā¦
rx: 592 kbit/s 69 p/s tx: 90 kbit/s 57 p/s
rx: 1,66 Mbit/s 183 p/s tx: 448 kbit/s 122 p/s
rx: 4,51 Mbit/s 436 p/s tx: 416 kbit/s 260 p/s
rx: 4,40 Mbit/s 390 p/s tx: 175 kbit/s 206 p/s
rx: 19,86 Mbit/s 1678 p/s tx: 536 kbit/s 851 p/s
rx: 21,38 Mbit/s 1815 p/s tx: 584 kbit/s 926 p/s
rx: 21 kbit/s 22 p/s tx: 17 kbit/s 19 p/s
rx: 12,51 Mbit/s 1077 p/s tx: 383 kbit/s 560 p/s
rx: 9,05 Mbit/s 774 p/s tx: 237 kbit/s 388 p/s
rx: 3 kbit/s 6 p/s tx: 3 kbit/s 5 p/s
rx: 12 kbit/s 3 p/s tx: 6 kbit/s 2 p/s
rx: 2 kbit/s 3 p/s tx: 1 kbit/s 2 p/s
rx: 28 kbit/s 15 p/s tx: 39 kbit/s 12 p/s
rx: 6 kbit/s 5 p/s tx: 4 kbit/s 4 p/s
rx: 15 kbit/s 5 p/s tx: 8 kbit/s 4 p/s
rx: 1 kbit/s 1 p/s tx: 1 kbit/s 1 p/s
rx: 24 kbit/s 8 p/s tx: 13 kbit/s 6 p/s
rx: 17 kbit/s 13 p/s tx: 33 kbit/s 11 p/s
rx: 17 kbit/s 6 p/s tx: 8 kbit/s 3 p/s
rx: 12 kbit/s 3 p/s tx: 7 kbit/s 3 p/s
rx: 5 kbit/s 4 p/s tx: 5 kbit/s 5 p/s
rx: 12 kbit/s 3 p/s tx: 6 kbit/s 2 p/s
rx: 17 kbit/s 14 p/s tx: 34 kbit/s 12 p/s
rx: 19 kbit/s 7 p/s tx: 11 kbit/s 6 p/s
rx: 5 kbit/s 4 p/s tx: 5 kbit/s 4 p/s
rx: 14 kbit/s 6 p/s tx: 7 kbit/s 4 p/s
rx: 9 kbit/s 6 p/s tx: 5 kbit/s 5 p/s
rx: 436 kbit/s 54 p/s tx: 50 kbit/s 32 p/s
rx: 58,23 Mbit/s 5098 p/s tx: 7,20 Mbit/s 2798 p/s
rx: 49,17 Mbit/s 4564 p/s tx: 8,75 Mbit/s 2559 p/s
rx: 31,26 Mbit/s 2904 p/s tx: 5,74 Mbit/s 1580 p/s
rx: 24,56 Mbit/s 2253 p/s tx: 3,87 Mbit/s 1215 p/s
rx: 23,01 Mbit/s 2094 p/s tx: 4,81 Mbit/s 1203 p/s
rx: 24,07 Mbit/s 2168 p/s tx: 2,90 Mbit/s 1091 p/s
eth0 / traffic statistics
rx | tx--------------------------------------Ā±-----------------
bytes 69,57 MiB | 8,89 MiB
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max 58,23 Mbit/s | 8,75 Mbit/s
average 8,38 Mbit/s | 1,07 Mbit/s
min 1 kbit/s | 1 kbit/s
--------------------------------------Ā±-----------------
packets 51396 | 27935
--------------------------------------Ā±-----------------
max 5098 p/s | 2798 p/s
average 755 p/s | 410 p/s
min 1 p/s | 1 p/s
--------------------------------------Ā±-----------------
time 1,13 minutes
@faz17 I made the debug video how it works for me. Note this was one of the slowest runs, usually the upstart is within first 4 to 7 seconds and not 15 seconds.
Before I started I remounted the acdcrypt drive so all buffer was flushed as you can see on right side rclone is using 0% memory.
On the right side you can see rclone and plex CPU / MEM usage, overall memory usage and rclone and plex media server log.
p.s. The stuttering is video is ShareX recorder problem that i dont have during recording.
Thanks Ajki. Iāve made other test and iāve notice that if i start a video from plex web everythingās work well like you. The download speed is progressive.
Although if i play a video from iphone app it make how i write above.
Maybe the problem is with iOs app
Sooooā¦ Iām not sure if I was the only one, but Iāve been getting really bad performance lately. Turns out it was actually PMS. Since 1.4.x they have added this webserver which capped all streams to max ~900 KB/s.
But there is good news. In the latest Plex Pass update they finally fixed this. 1.5.2 that is. You can check if you have this issue by using the web interface to download something directly via Plex. This will also be released to the public release when all is well.
More info: http://forums.plex.tv/discussion/259325/pms-1-4-x-buffering-the-stream-very-slow-download-of-media
If you donāt have Plex Pass and canāt wait that long you can downgrade to the latest version which did not have this problem, which was 1.3.4.
You gonna check in on this?
Not quite sure if this will work without a Plex Pass accountā¦
test it and let me know
Iām a plex pass member.