@TimmyBGood wrote:
@ChrisC29
Again, the streaming device doesn't require anything like 100Mbs to output UHD content to the screen, even at highest possible quality: that's kind of the point of streaming. Your server might well want gigabit if it were to serve multiple streams, but no client device needs that.
And how are you getting to that conclusion? You do know we're not talking about the compressed UHD that Sky is supplying? We're talking about the fact that if Plex were to be added, it would be pants.
If you wanted to use the Stream puck for Plex and you wanted to use it for UNCOMPRESSED Blu-ray rips, coming in at over 100GB in file size, it could not play it without buffering if the movie is under 2 hours and 20 minutes! It takes that long (roughly) to take the file from the server and move it over to the media player, it doesn't matter if it moves all the data and puts it all in buffer, or it attempts to move it all, it won't be able to move it fast enough, as the movie should be finished before the data could be transferred. It would be constantly trying to fill the buffer, but because it cannot pull the data fast enough, the buffer would never fill and it would have to stop.
Let's say the movie is 90 minutes long, there's a 50 minute difference between the time it takes for the data to get to the client and the length of the movie. So, you would have to pause the movie for 50 minutes, so it could buffer the data, then play it, and by the time it got to the end of the movie, it would still catch the buffer as the movie ended.
Don't think you're going to get it by the looks of it, but this is the simplest way I can find to explain it. I literally have this setup and have files of that size on my server, so I know what works and doesn't work, I'm just trying to help people understand why it wouldn't make a great Plex client.
