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to be fair, I have a fairly large iTunes purchased back-catalog of tv series and movies - when I go to view the index of them on a gigabit network, it takes mor
by jerrysievert 4y ago
to be fair, I have a fairly large iTunes purchased back-catalog of tv series and movies - when I go to view the index of them on a gigabit network, it takes more time than I would expect it to. latest appletv.
but, if I hit play, it's instantaneous and I'm surprised at the quality (plus they've upgraded a ton of my purchases to 4k when I bought them at whatever I could)
if I contrast that to local plex, the plex meta-data is instantaneous, but I find it amusing that the appletv videos start more quickly.
plex îs local cache, usually still in memory, apple is building my stuff from legacy iTunes data that I doubt they cache forever for me.
that said, I think I'm ok with the tradeoff for the most part.
- vonseel 4y agoYea, it's amazing how quickly videos stream from most services. If your Plex videos are taking a while to start, might be an issue with your client or server setup. Are the disk drives sleeping so they have to spin up, are they slow for some other reason, etc. My storage is all on spinning disk on 8+ year old hardware and I don't have any issues, except with certain slow clients.
- jerrysievert 4y agothe slowdown is with 4k movies - all codec (audio/video) match so no transcoding, plex runs in a vm with 4 typically idle cpu's allocated, and disks are cached with ssd's on a synology. still the slowest of the players I watch. you can use infuse, and often times it is much faster than the plex client against the same server.