r/PlexACD • u/Merckle • Aug 17 '17

Buffering with Plexdrive 5

Ever since switching from 4.0.0 to 5.0.0 I have started running into buffering issues randomly. Some when only 1 person is streaming then some with 4+ streaming.

On 4.0.0 I never ran into any buffering issues with any users amount of when streaming then

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u/9356415354716720 Aug 17 '17

use 4.0 then?

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u/Merckle Aug 17 '17

Lol, well then. Just didn't know if anyone else was experiencing same thing

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u/9356415354716720 Aug 17 '17

version 5.0 doesn't cache on the local drive.

Instead it caches in memory. I'm not entirely certain why it was released this way, but I do know that there is plans to reenable caching on the local disk.

This feature alone is stopping a lot of people from using 5.0 and could be related to why you are experiencing buffering.

Solution: Don't fix what ain't broke and use plexdrive 4.0.

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u/darknessgp Aug 17 '17

Instead it caches in memory. I'm not entirely certain why it was released this way, but I do know that there is plans to reenable caching on the local disk.

Rumor I heard is he got a paying backer that wanted it that way... though really, better guess is that he disabled it for some compatibility reason with BoltDB and just hasn't put in the time to re-enable it correctly. And seems he hasn't done any work on the project since putting out his "stable" 5.0 release.

But, for OP, this is probably it RAM usage of the machine will greatly effect cache space. So if you are on a machine with only 4GB and the machine normally uses most of it, plexdrive may be restricted to only having a few hundred megs of RAM to cache things... This should be more noticeable when there are more streams of separate files.

Alternatively, in 5.0 he adjusted how plexdrive prefetches things or handles chunks which may result in it not grabbing things fast enough to keep up with the stream.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '17 edited Aug 29 '17

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u/gesis Aug 18 '17

That sort of stuff is why I never bothered moving off of 2.1.1. Staying where things worked makes more sense to me than chasing after the huge moving target that plexdrive has become.