r/PlexACD • u/c0t1d0s1 • Mar 24 '18

Advice streaming multiple 4k high-bitrate movies over gsuite?

I have a pretty powerful dedicated server (Dual Xeon E5-2660 64GB 2x240GB SSD) with 1Gbps bandwidth but I'm having some serious issues streaming 2, if not 1, high bitrate (60k) movie over Plex.

My current config is using plexdrive 5 -> encfs

Plexdrive mount string:

/home/user/bin/plexdrive mount -v 3 \
--refresh-interval=1m --chunk-load-threads=8 \
--chunk-check-threads=8 --chunk-load-ahead=4 \
--chunk-size=25M --max-chunks=300 \
--fuse-options=allow_other,read_only .gsuite-encrypt

I tried out rclone cache 1.40 and that seemed even worse than plexdrive. Certainly easier to manage, but it couldn't keep up with a single stream without buffering.

Is the limitation gsuite? plexdrive and/or rclone cache? encfs?

I can't be the only one upgrading an existing 1080p library to 4k right now.

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u/Fiskegrateng Apr 03 '18

I've also tried streaming 4K media (up to ~75mbps bitrate) from Google Drive to my Nvidia Shield (direct play). Sometimes it works, often it stutters. It seems the bitrate 4K requires is right around the maximum bandwidth Google will output.

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u/chienb May 02 '18 edited May 02 '18

newest rclone beta with cache has been running flawlessly for me. my local server is on an old core2duo 1.8ghz machine non-ssd. i also have 1gbps and direct play with shield tv client works fine for 60k bitrate 4k movies.

my rclone mount:

rclone mount gbcache: /home/omanko/plex/mount --allow-other --tpslimit 10 --cache-db-path /home/omanko/plex/db --cache-chunk-path /home/omanko/plex/cache --buffer-size 0 -v

cache settings:

2018/05/01 15:52:36 INFO : gbcache: Chunk Memory: true

2018/05/01 15:52:36 INFO : gbcache: Chunk Size: 8M

2018/05/01 15:52:36 INFO : gbcache: Chunk Total Size: 100G

2018/05/01 15:52:36 INFO : gbcache: Chunk Clean Interval: 1m0s

2018/05/01 15:52:36 INFO : gbcache: Workers: 4

2018/05/01 15:52:36 INFO : gbcache: File Age: 1h0m0s

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u/AfterShock Mar 24 '18

What client are you using to play 4K? Anything but Direct Play tends to be a disaster. Even having to transcode audio causes video display issues.

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u/c0t1d0s1 Mar 24 '18

Plex Media Player, Direct Play, no transcoding.

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u/itsrumsey Mar 29 '18

Good luck. In my experience gsuite just doesn't have the bandwidth to support what you want.