Setup:
Google Drive mounted with RClone on a Windows machine that I run at home.
Internet fiber 500/500 Mbit/s
LG TV with Plex app installed, connected wired 1 Gb directly to switch
Direct Play a 4K 60Gb files works with the occasional Plex micro buffer (1 second or less), but if file size get larger then Plex buffering is happening more often.
Any suggestions on the config below to further optimize the experience?
What is your rclone version (output from rclone version)
1.53.3
Which OS you are using and how many bits (eg Windows 7, 64 bit)
Windows 10
Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)
Google Drive
The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)
mount gdrive: P: --config D:\RcloneCache\rclone.conf --vfs-cache-mode full --buffer-size 1G --vfs-read-ahead 500M --vfs-cache-max-size 150G --vfs-cache-max-age 336h --cache-dir D:\RcloneCache\CacheDir --dir-cache-time 1000h --poll-interval 15s --timeout 1h --log-file D:\RcloneCache\Rclone.log --log-level INFO --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36"
If you're using Plex directly via the LG, then that is the cause of the buffering. The TV only has a 10/100 Mbps port, which is the limiting factor here. The solution is to either get a gig-speed USB adapter and plug that into the LG, or buy a Shield, which is what I'd recommend.
Yeah, that's not direct play as it's transcoding so you need a pretty beefy server to transcode 4k so if your server can't keep up, that causes stutters.
I have an LG myself, and I've tried to use the built-in Plex client in the past. It works fine for pretty much everything except 4K remuxes. Unfortunately, there are no TVs with gig-ports out there. I used a PC for playback for almost a decade until recently, when I switched to a 2019 Shield Pro. That can play whatever you throw at it
Might want to check AVS or AV forums, since you're in the Netherlands. I never bothered with the adapter, but those that work will get you right around 500Mbps.
I received the USB ethernet adapter. It works and gives more than double the download speed that I had before. 97 Mbps vs 221 Mbps so that is a good improvement and I assume it is enough to play the 83,4 Mbps bitrate file i'm testing with.
Unfortunately the buffering is still there with this 83,4 Mbps file , but network wise it should not be an issue.
I also tested with the xplay client as a read that other people had better experience with that client, but it shows the same behavior.
Wifi is disabled on my tv
Also tested with a 72,3 Mbps file, that also buffers regularly.
Playing a 60 Mbps files works without any problem.
If we go back to my Rclone config.
Is there anything I can optimize?
Is your Plex server local or remote? If remote, how far away? Even with my Shield, I do experience the occasional buffer, especially with very high bit-rate stuff. It all comes down to latency. In my case, the Plex server is far away, and it is unfortunately my bottleneck. Well, the connection between it and my local ISP, really. When I access my media directly from the mount, bypassing the remote server, I never have any issues.
EDIT: I can see from your screenshot that you're hosting Plex locally. So, it's likely that your latency to Google's servers is the culprit here.