Curious if a reverse proxy is still there answer or if a new resolution has been found. I’ll lay out my specific details.
Dedicated ubuntu 18.04, 1gb down, 256meg up. Configuration mostly out of box PGBlitz.
RClone = v1.46
My client is Nvidia Shield and i’ve validated this issue occurs on both emby and plex. Both are currently excluded from the traefik reverse proxy pgblitz utilizes. No transcoding is being performed.
Experienced this on a variety of file types and different videos. Occurrences are random and can occasionally watch hours without issue and then randomly i’ll have 2 or 3 drops within 30 mins. With the shield, i’m able to rewind 15 second and have it resume but as you will see from the logs, it definitely releases the filestream. Configs posted along with but i haven’t tweaked pgblitz’s defaults much.
Here are the configs and logs of the events. I show a little extra data from when I rewind the file 15 seconds and it resumes. https://pastebin.com/vwMdY0Q0
You mentioned previously this issue appeared client based and didn’t play nice with these files in the cloud. I can confirm the issue doesn’t occur when the files are hosted on the server itself vs gdrive.
What steps can I take to stabilize connectivity with these cloud files? Any options on the rclone side?
If the player is opening and closing connections repeatedly, you probably want to turn off direct play and try that. Rclone itself doesn’t do anything in terms of keeping files open as that’s all up to the player.
If none of that works, you can always try to the cache backend which handles that better as it keeps local copies of the chunks.
Yea i’m going to give it a test. What I just read is that technically anything that isn’t direct play is going to be transcoded but my hope is that its a very light/minimal amount of processing that doesn’t mess with bitrate, etc. I’ll test this evening and report back.
Direct Play - This is no change and the file is played without any processing at all as it’s 100% compatible on the client
Direct Stream - This just repackages the container as it uses the same video/audio so no video loss.
I’m in total agreement thats an the option for me to try and I also agree that it likely won’t have any performance impact as its a super light transcoding. Your helping me out so i’m nothing but appreciative but in the interest of showing you what I was referring to here is also this snippet from that article.
In Plex, there are 3 things.
Direct Play, Direct Stream, Transcode.
If you turn off Direct Play, you’ll get a direct stream. A direct stream is ‘transcode’ but it’s only remuxing the container and keeping the video and audio the same.
Example of Direct Play:
If you Direct Stream. you get the same video and audio track not transcoded.
So out of the 3 settings, you have Direct Play, Direct Stream and Transcoding. It’s important to note you are not transcoding the video or audio when you direct play as it’s just remuxing the container which in turn is a lower case ‘transcode’.
