Can anyone point me in the right direction here? I have a pretty beefy PC I use as a server and HTPC. 24 2.5ghz cores, 64gb ram, kind of a crappy video card, debian 11. I just migrated all my stuff over and stress tested it supporting 8 different transcribed streams simultaneously (mix of in/out of local). That worked great.

BUT, the video playback is choppy (as in frame skipping) and out of sync when I’m running the HTPC program. Oddly using the web client on the same machine avoids that issue.

Any thoughts? I’m wondering if it might be that it’s an older TV it’s plugged into and there’s some issue there. Thing is, like I said, the webclient its worlds better. Webclient seems to have some issues but I’m pretty sure that’s just due to the TV.

Any pointers are helpful! I’m OK at this stuff but very much learning.

  • @batmaniamOPEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    This would definitely make a ton of sense! I don’t know how to validate but that’s exactly what it seems like.

    Im running a dell precision 5810 with an nvs 310 for graphics and 64gb of ram. Using plasma as a DE if that trips anything up.

    • Faceman🇦🇺English
      2•1 year ago

      that GPU is likely causing issues, no NVDEC or NVENC in a plex box makes it useless, so it’s having to brute force decode and encode everything, which it probably isn’t powerful enough to do while also being the server. That GPU has only basic h264 decoding at up to 1080p, no H265 or 10bit or 4k or anything like that, and might not even be supported by Plex HTPC or you need to try different driver versions as it might just be an Nvidia+linux thing cause the drivers are a bit of a mess.

      Look into something slightly more modern like a p600 or newer. Or redo the server with an intel desktop cpu (even just an i3) which will have an igpu capable of pretty much everything up to and including 4k HDR.

      • @batmaniamOPEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        That makes sense. I’ve been looking at upgrading the card on my usual desktop (current card is a GeForce GTX1060 3GB). If I can find a deal on something non-nvidia I’ll get something directly for the plex box though.

        I had banked on all of that RAM and processor headroom being able to have it function well as a server despite the graphics card (and it did a good job encoding and sending OUT streams), but I’m still learning what does what in this whole chain. Thanks for all your help!