I played around with Plex a little the last couple of weeks and it is really giving me a hard time. I only fiddle around with media files which can either be played via Direct Stream or Direct Play (MPEG-2 TS with 1080i H.264 video and AC3 audio), so without any transcoding necessary on my weak NAS. Remuxing should be fine on a dual core ARM Cortex A9 running at 1GHz, no?
I tried playback with 3 clients:
(1) Microsoft Edge running on a Win10 notebook
(2) via Google Cast on Sony Android TV (iniated from my iPhone 7)
(3) Plex on Sony Android TV
You will find those 3 attempts in the attached logs (last 3 in exactly the above order).
Results:
(1) working
(2) video not starting, loading forever (only Google Cast page is loaded on the Sony TV)
(3) video not starting, loading forever
Even though I re-installed the server on the NAS, I still see old logs. So I assume that the server has also not been reset to factory settings? How can I achieve that?
PlexMediaServer-1.3.2.3112-1751929-arm7 on Synology DS216j NAS (latest DSM6)
Plex 5.2.0.477 on Sony KD-55XD8505 (Android TV Lollipop/5.1.1)
Plex 4.5 on iPhone 7 (iOS10)