One setting can completely bog down your Pi Plex server.

This document describes how Plex decides between direct play and transcoding for live tuner streams, and EXStreamTV’s chosen strategy so the platform behaves like an accurate TV broadcast system when ...

I'm currently using Plex on my Synology NAS and I quite like it, but the Synology is just not up to the task for anything beyond basic transcoding. So I would like to create a dedicated server to ...

container_linux.go:247: starting container process caused "chdir to cwd (\"/transcode/Transcode/Sessions/plex-transcode-4prvaib6gcbct1asr5v9iqce-95126e93-4ec7-46e7 ...

If high-quality streaming is an issue for your self-hosted media server, there are a few things you can try.

Is there a way to force Plex to transcode particular audio-only files while playing remotely? It appears that it will transcode FLAC files to AAC if they're above a particular bitrate. e.g., stuff ...