Will have a look tomorrow, see when files close during playback.
Will be interested to see if there's a difference between transcoding, direct play, and different transcode buffer settings.
Thanks for your help, appreciated as always
Direct Play - That should keep the file open the whole time.
Direct Stream/Transcode - I would assume/guess and agree with you as it probably closes it out at some point if the throttle is hit.
Just gave it a shot. (On my phone so don't have logs)
I set the transcode throttle buffer in Plex to 3 hours, so it won't ever throttle the transcoder.
I started playback of a transcoded file on Server 2 and then deleted the file on Server 1.
Within a few seconds, even with transcoding still occuring (transcoding hadn't throttled), playback stopped on Server 2 with a transcode error in Plex.
From what I can tell, transcoding a file in Plex doesn't keep the file open. So Rclone will delete the file on the mount and kill any current transcoded playback.
Direct playing a file seems to keep the file open. Which is one positive.
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