He Guys, yesterday I had everything copied to ACD (location: US). Mount settings as followed:
–read-only --allow-other --acd-templink-threshold 0 --stats 1s --buffer-size 1G
Everything is encrypted with rclone. So some minor overhead there.
There was literally no other job running on the box. I started the serie/movie and watched the mount log. It was getting the file from ACD so far so good, no errors nothing. The serie started but stopped after 5 secs and started buffering again and never continued playing. I use Directplay so no transcoding in place. The box is on a 1GBit/s connection, has 48G of RAM and 16 cores and SSD’s so plenty of power there.
I don’t understand why this happens because when I download/upload files from and to ACD I will get like 150 to 250 mbits so that should be enough for a Serie/Movie right?
Another strange thing is that it’s running without any trouble on my laptop. But when I use plex on my Mac mini it’s has trouble. (both: plex media player and identical settings same version).
And of course there are no problems when I use the local storage from the box for media instead of ACD. On both devices macbook air and mac mini playing without trouble than. Only when I use ACD there is trouble on the Mac Mini. Had also a friend complaining about the same buffering trouble when he used is AppleTV.
Strange isn’t it. I can’t find where this is going wrong. Already reinstalled plex on the Mac mini.
Anybody had something similar? Ooow and before I forget, I used the following thread for some tweaking: Best mount settings for streaming ( Plex ) And the mentioned GITI wiki.
It’s said that the current public and plexpass Plex Media Servers are having issues when it comes to this scenario… The Plex Team has addressed the issue and will fix it in a later 1.5x version. In the meantime you could try version 1.3.4 or lower…
Then again if you read my post (currently the last message) in ‘best rclone settings for plex’ then it could be the issue of Plex not having the media locally stored… and I am not speaking for acdcli as a mounting option, but more in combination with rclone mount (encrypted)…
We (the diehard community lol) will figure it out sometime soon I hope
Hmm that could be the issue than. Running plexpass version “1.5.1.3520-ed60c70d6” now.
Do you have a link for the latest stable version for Ubuntu x64 .deb package? Or point me to one?
Like many others, the buffering I get when streaming from ACD is driving me crazy. I’m using rclone v1.36 with a buffer-size of 128M. After a few seconds, the stream buffers…without fail.
This time, for whatever reason, when it buffered, I looked at the terminal window where I had started the mount and noticed an error:
I am running Kodi and got this while trying to play off ACD
: Movies/10 Things I Hate About You 1999/10 Things I Hate About You.mkv: ReadFileHandle.Read error: low level retry 1/10: unexpected EOF
It starts playing without trouble, after a few seconds it hits buffering… And never plays any further.
I can’t find what is going wrong. Any body around here that has it running smooth without any trouble.
Ooh and transcode or directplay doesn’t makes a difference. Plexpy just says buffering when it happens. Logging doesn’t give any decent info. Is there a trick, maybe a tweaked kernel or something like that?
Almost always, when I start to play a serie/movie, no matter which filesize is (sometimes 3GB, sometimes 30GB), it pauses after 5 secs, it takes some time with freeze display and then continues (or not, and I must start to play the serie/movie again).
I think for most people who have had ACD buffering issues at this point have switched over to gdrive and are very happy with the move. If you make the switch and stay with rclone make sure you disable plex library scans, tasks etc. Right now the two do not play well together and could potentially get you banned.
Oke, I assume you are one of them? I was wondering how do you manage to add you libary to plex than? And keep it up-to-date? If you can’t scan you’re library…
There are several in this forum if you search for it. You can do an initial scan and risk the ban or do it in batches. The other option is to help @ncw and/or encourage him to implement metadata caching that will help. There are other gdrive mount tools that do that such as node-gdrive and ocaml-google-drive that some have switched to until there are caching on the rclone mount side. Have yet to see any bans with full library scans while using those. Each comes with their own pro/cons. If you want to discuss more join us in the slack channel. We have on going discussion about them there.
