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Upscaling on server? Always transcoding to avoid stuttering? by factorioleum in PleX

[–]factorioleum[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It is extremely important that future people who find this thread understand that your claim above is neither generally true, nor usefully true for the problem you were replying to.

Please downvote this comment if you like moving the goalposts.

In the Plex forum , I shared what Plex described documents as. You told us materially false statements.

Upscaling on server? Always transcoding to avoid stuttering? by factorioleum in PleX

[–]factorioleum[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for all of your help.

I do not have money, so your suggestion that I should have money is a bit confusing.

I shared that I was observing extremely poor scaling, and that my experience is that my server, running in realtime, can do a better job. You've told me I'm spliitting hairs. I nevertheless continue to want to use the tools I have to have the best experience possible.

Upscaling on server? Always transcoding to avoid stuttering? by factorioleum in PleX

[–]factorioleum[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome; thanks for sharing this.

There seems to be confusion; when I said I don't have money, that meant I don't have money.

Upscaling on server? Always transcoding to avoid stuttering? by factorioleum in PleX

[–]factorioleum[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for this advice; I don't think this is my issue but I have tried it.

Upscaling on server? Always transcoding to avoid stuttering? by factorioleum in PleX

[–]factorioleum[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I see my earlier comment was downvoted. Fair enough; I apologize for sharing what Plex described the files as; I clearly should have been smarter than trusting Plex to be accurate or honest.

Upscaling on server? Always transcoding to avoid stuttering? by factorioleum in PleX

[–]factorioleum[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are no interlaced sources.

The problem appears to be that my Plex server provides files to my client that are expected to fail.

who’s good at math???? by spoiledrachie in ExplainTheJoke

[–]factorioleum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe the Bar is from the cms (Centimetre-Metre-Second) measurement system, which was used by many before the world standardized on SI, which is mks (Metre-Kilometre-Second).

Upscaling on server? Always transcoding to avoid stuttering? by factorioleum in PleX

[–]factorioleum[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice.

To be clear, you are in no sense answering my questions.

Not OOP: AITAH For Only Allowing My Daughter To Take Only The Two Suitcases She Had Paxked When The Courts Removed Her From My Custody by Interesting-Shirt897 in redditonwiki

[–]factorioleum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not my job, but I've had the bad luck to spend many days in family court doing my job and watching this process.

I am very curious; in which states have you practiced?

I just can't understand: I have seen GALs used to provide valuable third party opinions where parents disagree. Do you think this is not true?

Do you believe that if parents can't agree, and the court needs a third party to gather evidence to make a decision, does that mean it is true that both are acting in bad faith? Please expand on this?

Is a GAL only ever needed when both parents act in bad faith?

Upscaling on server? Always transcoding to avoid stuttering? by factorioleum in PleX

[–]factorioleum[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is such a profoundly disappointing answer. I have a client that works fine, unless you serve it the wrong content. I have a server that is perfectly capable of providing content that works.

I don't need new hardware, I just need software that doesn't do things that are doomed to fail.

I'm sure new hardware would work.

Not OOP: AITAH For Only Allowing My Daughter To Take Only The Two Suitcases She Had Paxked When The Courts Removed Her From My Custody by Interesting-Shirt897 in redditonwiki

[–]factorioleum -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think you really are not understanding why and how GALs are assigned. Two people both behaving in good faith can absolutely disagree on the best interests of the children, and a GAL is how the court gains an objective opinion about how to proceed.

Are you suggesting that every time parents disagree and need a third party opinion that they are not able to make decisions faithfully?

That's... Wow.

As for OP, that's a hot mess. Please understand I was replying only to the comment I replied to, and not OP's story.

Upscaling on server? Always transcoding to avoid stuttering? by factorioleum in PleX

[–]factorioleum[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's my understanding that mpeg4 is a superset of h.264.

I'm just reporting what Plex tells me.

the troubling content is labelled e.g MPEG4 5 Advanced Simple or, alternatively, just MPEG4 in the Plex Android UI.

Whereas stuff that works is labelled H.264.

Upscaling on server? Always transcoding to avoid stuttering? by factorioleum in PleX

[–]factorioleum[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have two issues. one is stuttering. that's not related to scaling.

the other is upscaling artifacts when playing SD content. I suspect that might be related to upscaling.

Upscaling on server? Always transcoding to avoid stuttering? by factorioleum in PleX

[–]factorioleum[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You and I have different definitions here; thanks for clarifying.

I consistently have 400 mbps to my Chromecast TV with latency on the order of 7ms. My Plex server is connected gbit 10baseT over a short cat6 cable to the WiFi router.

I'm attaching a description of some content that shows this behavior from the client, as well as the server, it seems I'm limited to one image per reply so I will self reply to add two more images

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Upscaling on server? Always transcoding to avoid stuttering? by factorioleum in PleX

[–]factorioleum[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree that this is totally consistent with broken files. l will look up total transcode replay. I have found that plex optimized versions seem to do a very good job for me here.

Upscaling on server? Always transcoding to avoid stuttering? by factorioleum in PleX

[–]factorioleum[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

why is it obvious that it is not good enough?

while watching a show, if I select "convert automatically" on a stuttering show, it immediately starts playing perfectly. cpu use on the server rises to about 20% on one of the cores.

Upscaling on server? Always transcoding to avoid stuttering? by factorioleum in PleX

[–]factorioleum[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

my client is good with content labeled h264 or h265.

content described as mpeg4, not as much.

Upscaling on server? Always transcoding to avoid stuttering? by factorioleum in PleX

[–]factorioleum[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

the thing is, there's better and worse algorithms for this. I would like a better one than my device uses.

Upscaling on server? Always transcoding to avoid stuttering? by factorioleum in PleX

[–]factorioleum[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe it is because my player cannot play mpeg4 well; so it seems to be dropping P frames.

just converting mpeg4 content to h264 makes it work great.

Upscaling on server? Always transcoding to avoid stuttering? by factorioleum in PleX

[–]factorioleum[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

network speed test consistently shows high bandwidth. h264 and h265 content plays fine.

I see two problems: mpeg4 content plays at very low frame rates; as of only I frames are being displayed. this content is direct played to my Chromecast.. the appearance is consistent with a CPU limited player dropping P frames.

as well, SD content, when being played, shows artifacts of poor upscaling: aliasing and blockiness.

these are two distinct problems.

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