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I'm a YouTube addict. The issue, I need it to research frequently. This means parental control timers and site blockers don't work because I run into the blocked content and then need to disable the setting for a more legit reason. I want to find a way to make it so the more YouTube (or any site really) is used, I want to add incrementally more delay when loading new content. Make it so it's worse to use the longer I'm stuck watching content. Watching shorts for an hour? It takes 2 extra seconds to load each short. Something like that. Something that brings added friction to its use without getting to the point where I need to disable the controls fully.

While streaming, even on my home network, video files frequently begin to stutter like the file needs to buffer and I am not (yet) technically literate enough to figure out why. Doesn't always happen. Such as I'll be halfway through a DVD quality file and it'll just start stuttering for a while. I imagine there's some part of the chain that needs to be updated, but I'm curious if someone can tell me what is most likely to be causing this. HDD vs SDD? Drives too full? Router speeds? Ethernet card? CPU? Cache drives? Client end? Just not sure. As to the specs, probably very unbalanced. Had some other ideas when I initially built the server. Specs Motherboard: MSI Z370 A-Pro CPU-i5-8400 (thought it should be able to transcode 6 concurrent streams) RAM: 16GB DDR4. Can't remember the speeds, nothing fancy Drives: 6x4GB WD Red. Arrangement: Unraid Single Parity. Drive use: Parity drive: 3.01/4GB full, Plex drives: 1.24-2.71/4GB full (originally set to stop at 1/2 full then move to the next one, but added an extra drive to that Share). Disc 4 is a file server share. Cache Drives and GPU: None Add ins: Gigabit network card with 2 ports. eth2 is the active port. Clients: iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro. I understand off my local network the 20-25Mb/s Upload speed from Comcast is the limiting factor, but I figured I should be able to stream multiple BluRay original quality streams on my network. Am I making an incorrect assumption/calculation somewhere and do I need to upgrade/reconfigure something? I appreciate any assistance that can be provided.

PC Specs: CPU: Ryzen 5 1600 GPU: GTX 1080 Palit JetStream MOBO: ASRock ab350 PRO4 RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport 2x8GB 3000MHz (XMP 2.0) PSU: XFX 650W (don't remember what model) OS SSD: ADATA SP920 OS: Windows 10 21H2 Problem description: Hi. I have a problem that has been going on for some time (2-3 years). It's hard to explain what it really is. Sometimes, my computer stops playing music, stops videos (starts buffering on youtube), there is no sound in games and when I minimize the game window and return to the game there is a black screen with window borders (the game runs on full screen) - I can't exit the game by clicking the "x" button in the corner, I have to end the task. When I open the game after the incident it runs, but has no sound. Other than that computer doesn't crash, etc. For example, when I'm doing a project in Adobe Illustrator I can normally work, finish the project and save it without any issues, but spotify stops playing music. I can open new programs, but the issue still exists. What causes the issue (and when it happens): It happens when it wants to. Sometimes when I turn on my computer it happens within 5 minutes (sometimes immediately, sometimes a few minutes later). Sometimes it happens a few hours after I turn on my computer. Sometimes I can run my computer for 12-15h and it will work just fine. I checked if it does that under stress. I opened 2 games, gimp, chrome x2 (around 30-40 tabs total), edge, spotify, origin, a few smaller programs, adobe illustrator and tried to open photoshop, but it didn't want to open due to lack of ram, but the porblem didn't happen. I could watch YT and listen to spotify without any issues. Apex Legends was running fine (the performance was only a little bit worse). However, I've noticed that sometimes it happens exactly when I'm opening a new program (game, browser, etc.). Sometimes it happens just like that, I can leave my PC for 2 minutes and after I come back there's the issue. Sometimes it happens when I turn on the computer, I reboot it, it happens again (and 3-4 times like that, one after another). Sometimes when I'm rebooting my PC after the provlem occured there is a message that Task Host Window is stopping background tasks. What fixes the issue: Again, hard to tell what exactly. When I reboot my computer the problem is usually fixed. Sometimes I have to reboot it a few times (expecially if the problem happened within 5 minutes after I turned it on). When the problem happens some time after the system boot (a few hours after) sometimes it helps to end chrome, game (usually apex legends) and spotify task in the task manager. I didn't really test if other programs work after that or just the ones that the task was ended. However, sometimes anding the task won't help and I have to reboot the system. What is ok: CPU & GPU temperatures are fine RAM is working fine (I did a memtest x86) What I did to fix the problem: System reinstall Removing and installing the GPU and RAM (exchanging their place too) Unplugging and pluging in the GPU cables MemTest x86 (no RAM issues, at least it didn't show any) DDU (hard uninstalling GPU drivers), multiple times Installing multiple GPU drivers (they are not the issue) Updating the chipset drivers (to AMD version 5.12.0.38, 08.03.2020) I don't know if it's a software or hardware related issue. I think that the first thing to do would be to find what causes the issue (if it's even possible). Without it, it will be really hard to fix the problem, since I won't know if the thing I did fixed the problem. Thank you if you read everything. I hope that someone will know something, maybe had a similar issue. It really drives me crazy.

I am getting 70mbps download and 10mbps upload, but for some reason when I try to watch youtube in 1080p or even 480p it just craps its self. The video just buffers and can barely load.

Have had this for a while now but the ever so often buffering is really bugging me now. I watch a stream on twitch.tv and it never buffers but when I use Streamlink I get buffering. Anyone have any suggestions on how to eliminate it? I've tried various players, different buffer cache settings and it still buffers. My laptop doesn't like the website, plus the quality compared to a streamlink stream is terribad.

For the past week, I've had random internet slowdowns where most websites loaded slowly, the ping was high, YT videos not loading at all, and Facebook/Instagram pictures not loading. I applied some of the popular fixes for network issues (netsh commands etc) and nothing worked except resetting IPs or disabling then re-enabling the adapter. While I was testing my speed with Speedtest.net it showed me that I'm in the US (I'm not). I was really confused then I had an idea as to what's going on. I checked my IP address with whatismyipaddress.com and it also showed me that I'm in the US. I uninstalled Hotspot Shield but my YT videos were still buffering, then I uninstalled Windscribe and they worked instantly. I should've checked before uninstalling it to see if the program was running or not (I'm fairly certain its icon wasn't showing in the notification area). So yeah, I thought I should share this in case someone is having a similar issue because I was about to buy a NIC.

Hey all, so I have an up-to-date Plex server with Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Gen2 installed. It has 72GB of RAM (~50GB of which is being used as a cache system with PrimoCache), 2x Xeon E5620 CPU's, and a bridged NIC (I have tried with and without bridged NIC's and the bridged one has the least buffering time). The server is DMZ'ed from the outside and the ports are forwarded. Firewall is allowing Plex and all its services to send and receive data on the server and the client. This issue happens across multiple clients and hasn't happened before on previous Plex servers on my network. Transcoding is set to "Prefer higher speed encoding". No GPU acceleration is being used due to no GPU being installed. If this is an issue with Windows, I will gladly switch to a Linux distro but I just want to make sure that it isn't something I have done to mess with the configuration before I make the switch to the Linux distro and have the same issues. Any help is much appreciated.

Hello Everyone, I am currently have a 200 Meg Internet connection and everytime I go to watch a YouTube video I experience constant buffering. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could help me out with this situation.

Since those fucking cryptominers freesync is off the table, any way to reduce vsync input lag? planning on using at least tripple buffering so yeah. No don't tell me to lower my settings so I get a perfect 60, cuz I'm on a 75, I will also punch you if you say that. Any solution like mixing gpu buffered frames and vsync buffered frames? i don't have any gpu yet so I'm just curious to know if I should wait to get an rx570 or just buy a 970.

I recently repurposed my old pc (i5 4690k, 16GB RAM) into a plex server to have my media be independent from my gaming pc and for consumption on my TV. Since 4k content was stuttering over wifi (buffering every minute or every few minutes) I decided to get a switch (Netgear GS305) and wire everything up. However the situation actually got worse With the 4k media (~45 Mb/s) stuttering ever ~10 seconds or so and even 1080p streams buffering once or twice during a show. I'm consuming the content on my Samsung MU6400 using their Plex app. If I play a file (not stream) on my pc form the server there is no buffering. Even while streaming the server is basically doing nothing, so no transcoding is going on. I'm guessing my network is the problem, could it be my ISPs router just being crap? The wiring is as follows: the router is in a small closet from where two ethernet cables run to ethernet wall sockets in two separate rooms. The server is in the bedroom and the TV (and my gaming pc for that matter) are connected to the other wall socket through the switch. Would the situation improve if I buy a decent router and put the one provided by my ISP in bridged mode?

Hey HTPC cognoscenti, I’ve recently installed an LG oled b7 and as a Plex user had hoped to stream some 4k content directly to the screen. Unfortunately the stream has to buffer every couple of minutes because it is transcoding and my cpu (2500k) clearly isn’t up to the task. I have attempted to set hardware transcoding on my 1070, but that is worse if anything. Does anyone one know of a way to force Plex to direct stream 265? I'm pretty sure the screen can comfortably accept the codec on that side. Alternatively, can I convert out of hevc into something Plex can cope with that won’t degrade the quality? Thanks!

As I understand it, triple buffering works in conjunction with V-sync to allow a second frame to rendered in the back frame buffer while the GPU is still waiting for the monitor refresh to be ready.. However, is it true that triple buffering is forced when you run a game in windowed mode even though Vsync is disabled? Source: " Windows 10, like Windows 8 before it, forces the use of the Desktop Window Manager. (desktop compositor) This means that any application running in a window will have triple buffering applied to it. If you disable V-Sync in a game that is running in a window, the framerate will be uncapped and is no longer synchronized to the refresh rate - as expected. However you won't get any screen tearing because triple-buffering is applied via the DWM. If you want to disable V-Sync and still get screen tearing, run the game in fullscreen exclusive mode. That way the game should bypass the DWM." How come Windows can run triple buffering in windowed mode while Vsync is disabled? If there is no Vsync the GPU would just spit out the next frame as soon as it's ready meaning there would be no point to triple buffering yet when playing games in Windowed mode V-sync is not running because FPS is not capped in game.. What?

So today Youtube just decided to say nope. Everything else works fine but Youtube videos just keep on buffering. My internet speed -> Could it be their servers? Thanks, Blueprint

Hi all. Vessel for the past few months has been quite random. Most of the time The video would buffer, then play for awhile then buffer again which makes for a really terrible video watching experience. I have a 10Mbps symmetrical fibre internet and I could play 1080p Youtube and Twitch no issue though. The Android app is even worse since most of the time I can't even get to the homepage. I'm in SEA region btw. If this issue isn't solved, after the trial Vessel period I'm just gonna wait for videos to release on Youtube then. Is it only me or is this already a known issue? Thanks in advance!

So, I've been watching Youtube videos at 1440p+ lately, and I've been having a problem. I can't get it to playback without buffering. I have a 60Mbps connection that I confirm I can use all of it all of the time. So why is Youtube buffering? I checked my router, which is an ASUS RT-AC68U, since it has an app monitor to see what a specific app's usage on the connection is. It's showing that Youtube is only using 4Mbps, AND that its using it on the uplink, while almost none (0.5Mbps) on the downlink. That's the max speed of my upload too. It also shows 3145Kbps in 'Stats for nerds' on the video itself. How can that be when you're streaming from the servers? Thanks, and if you need it the debug info is below: {"ns":"yt","el":"detailpage","cpn":"cb0nvvxlOQUpdZdn","docid":"4d0B0Dli-1g","ver":2,"referrer":"https://accounts.google.com/signin/challenge?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fsignin%3Fhl%3Den%26feature%3Dsign_in_button%26app%3Ddesktop%26next%3D%252Fwatch%253Fv%253D4d0B0Dli-1g%26action_handle_signin%3Dtrue&service=youtube&hl=en&checkedDomains=youtube&checkConnection=youtube%3A350%3A1&pstMsg=1","cmt":"55.148","plid":"AAUc-wsj4BW3uLap","ei":"CA3JVe7DKMWtqgXYzICoAg","fmt":"271","fs":"0","rt":"1371.53","of":"Y-46tEBbkDMTcW2Ic_IMcw","adformat":null,"content_v":null,"euri":"","subscribed":"1","lact":53,"live":null,"cl":"100036190","mos":0,"osid":null,"state":"4","vm":null,"volume":100,"c":"WEB","cver":"html5","cplayer":"UNIPLAYER","cbr":"Chrome","cbrver":"45.0.2454.26","cos":"Windows","cosver":"10.0","hl":"en_US","cr":"US","len":"912","fexp":"3300110,3300134,3311879,3312231,3312381,3312701,9407157,9407168,9408521,9408710,9409171,9413123,9415365,9415435,9415485,9416023,9416126,9416729,9417192,9417203,9417926,9418009,9418083,9418153,9418330,9418573","afmt":"251","at":"2_1","allowed":"1_2,1_2_1,1_1,1_3,2_2_1,2_2,2_1,2_3","vct":"55.148","vd":"912.000","vpl":"0.000-4.524,4.724-49.791,49.991-55.148,","vbu":"48.048-106.772,","vpa":true,"vsk":false,"ven":false,"vpr":1,"vrs":4,"vns":2,"vec":null,"lct":"55.148","lsk":false,"lmf":true,"lbw":"436465.184","lhd":"0.224","ltd":"222.558","laa":"itag=251,seg=10,range=2055515-2073287,time=105.8-106.8","lva":"itag=271,seg=19,range=52561513-54778262,time=103.6-106.8","lar":"itag=251,seg=11,range=2134065-2320866,time=110.0-120.0","lvr":"itag=271,seg=20,range=54778263-57314526,time=106.8-112.0","lvh":"r5---sn-vgqsener","lab":"40.001-106.861,","lvb":"48.048-106.772,","debug_videoId":"4d0B0Dli-1g","gpu":"ANGLE_(NVIDIA_GeForce_GTX_980_Direct3D11_vs_5_0_ps_5_0)","cgr":true,"debug_playbackQuality":"hd1440","debug_date":"Mon Aug 10 2015 17:06:48 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)"}

hello i started streaming few weeks ago and im streaming on 3000 bitrate and people keep saying that my stream keeps buffering when resolution is 1080p here is my internet speed please help me and tell me how do i fix it btw im not droping any frames

So here's an interesting predicament. I'm trying to stream my (totally legally obtained) movies from my desktop's hard drive to my PS3. Because for some odd reason the PS3 only plays nicely with my network shared folders a fraction of the time (they work all the time on other windows devices and all my android devices) I am using a bit of software cleverly called "PS3 Media Server." Sometimes it works great, and other times, not so much, with intermittent stuttering that seems awfully like buffering to me. This seems to be linked to the size of the file, so I'm assuming it's a bandwidth issue. The software has a couple options I've tweaked, one helped some, the other didn't seem to help at all. The first thing I tried was increasing the buffer size from it's original setting of 200MB. This helped in that it enabled the PS3 to load more of the data while paused, but it would eventually work through it's buffer and require me to pause it and let it buffer again, clearly not an ideal situation. I also found a Max bitrate setting, which I set to 0 (the settings say that means unlimited). My only issue with that is that it has an indicator on the main page showing it's current and peak bitrates, and max stays locked at 35 Mb/s no matter what I set the max bitrate to. I don't think this is a hardware issue, as both the PS3 and the Desktop are using Ethernet, I know my desktop is gigabit, I know my router is as well, and would be shocked to find out that the PS3 is using less than 100 Mb, likely it's also gigabit. So right now I can work on a theoretical bottleneck of 100Mb/s. My drive is a WD Blue 1TB 7200 with sequential reads of ~130MB/s (which my rudimentary math tells me should be a bit over gigabit speeds) so that's clearly not a bottleneck, even though it's only over SATA 2 (3 Gb/s). So as far as I can tell, the bottleneck has to somehow be software based? Is there something I can do to fix this? Is it a PS3 issue? Can it NOT accept data faster than 35Mb/s? Any help is appreciated.