I have Ubuntu 12.04 running plex media server Version 0.9.8.18.290-11b7fdd.
Everything looks like it is working but when I go to stream a video it takes a very long time before it starts (20 mins or so).
Once the video starts it buffers multiple times a second making it impossible to watch.
I have tried reinstalling plex but this does not help.
I ran strace on start_pms and it shows the transcoding session start
!!! Plex Transcoder v3.003.13.0403-0054 (c97b73a, DEBUG, x86_64) !!! "/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plex New Transcoder" "-i" "http://127.0.0.1:324...arts/2/file.mp4" "-threads" "0" "-y" "-segment_format" "mpegts" "-f" "segment" "-loglevel" "quiet" "-loglevel_plex" "error" "-map_metadata" "-1" "-progressurl" "http://127.0.0.1:32400/video/:/transcode/session/57yq5y9qis8/progress" "-vcodec" "copy" "-flags" "-global_header" "-segment_time" "10" "-segment_start_number" "0" "-bsf" "h264_mp4toannexb" "-map" "0:0" "-sn" "-acodec" "libmp3lame" "-aq" "2" "-map" "0:1" "media-%05d.ts"
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Disable Segmenter (only one output destination allowed)
In another terminal i ran ps aux |grep "Plex New Transcoder" there isn't a transcoder process running.
At the beginning of the strace there are some errors about files not existing
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
mmap(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7ff5b8bab000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=31607, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 31607, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7ff5b8ba3000
close(3) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
The server has a quad xeon processor and 16GB of ram so there shouldn't be any problem running plex.