Just hoping to draw upon some brain power here in the forum. I just set up a fresh VPS and have running some tests.
My rclone mount settings are
/usr/sbin/rclone mount --allow-other --read-only --max-read-ahead=2G --acd-templink-threshold=0 --dir-cache-time=60m --checkers=32 --timeout=30s --contimeout=15s --retries=3 --low-level-retries=1 --s$
I will load up plex in a Firefox browser to test… after a brief buffering period it will start to stream (direct play). At the bottom of the screen there is a bar that represents the time the file has been playing and a grey bar typically advances infront of it that i assume represents the content pre-stream/Download to allow for smooth playback.
Now at seemingly random points Firefox browser will stop playing and display “There was an error in play back” or something to that effect. I know the file is fine as I have watched it locally just fine. So I dig through the Plex logs for an entry around the same time as the video fails… and I get this type of entry below:
Jan 29, 2017 10:45:34.493 [0x7f3f7f3fe700] DEBUG - Failed to stream media, client probably disconnected: 32 - Broken pipe
Jan 29, 2017 10:45:34.493 [0x7f3f7f3fe700] DEBUG - Completed: [IP.ADDRESS:SOMEPORT] 200 GET /library/parts/266/1484596868/file.mp4 (9 live) TLS 2495ms 5095424 bytes
Jan 29, 2017 10:45:34.493 [0x7f3f7f3fe700] VERBOSE - [IDLE] Removing (1->0) work item http_download -
Now I never ran into this issue with my last VPS with the same rclone mount settings.
Now I dunno if this will help or further confuse the issue… if I have a Terminal / SSH into the VPS open at the same time… occasionally the terminal will start to get overwritten with error codes identifying ‘failed I/O reads’ etc
Anyone have any clue as to what could be happening?
Hey Ajiki,
Thanks for throwing your insight in here.
Here’s my new mount setting:
/usr/sbin/rclone mount --allow-other --read-only --max-read-ahead=2G --acd-templink-threshold=0 --dir-cache-time=60m --checkers=32 ACD:Plex /home/USER/.acd &
I’ll give it a shot and run some streams to see if they randomly drop. I’ll report back in a bit.
ps: I’ve checked out your scripts site… great work. Say how do you organize your media on ACD? Do you just have Movies and Shows like most folks… or do you sub-divide Movies into different categories and if so… how do you maintain those sub categories? I can figure it out manually, but automating the process has me stumped at the moment.
I got an inexplicable set of buffering on MP4 files via direct play with no transcoding... then the web browser dropped the playback. I checked the logs and it referred again to a 'broken pipe'.
My dedicated machine is :
That should have more than enough power to stream a freaking video thats not being transcoded.
What does 'broken pipe' actually mean? It seems to have something to do with an interruption in the Plex playback stream.
As to 'labels', I will look into that. On my local machine I would have just made a series of Directories such as Movies-Action, or Movies-Documentary... then using the Plex interface, I could navigate to the folder I wanted at the time. I'll look into Plex Labels.
( this does not have anything to do with labels, but its important you then select in Library ALL not recently uploaded/release as then it wont show you all action movies )
As for Lables you need to edit each video in Plex and then you have option to put your own Labels
Hrm,
Thats a good point Stokkes. To be honest I dont know even how to test that.
Just checked a little lower in the thread and it looks like Ajki made me a bash script.
I’ll check it out.
Ajki,
You are awesome. I will chmod +x that script and toss it in my script directory and give it a whirl.
I’ve sent some beer money your way for all your friendly advice/help, from the link on your site.
Cheers.
