Quick backstory: So I was able to get a good amount of unused server hardware from a friend that was purchased for business use then never actually used and he wanted to offload at a very reasonable price so here's what I have.
My player of choice was Roku Ultra as it seemed to have the most compatibility and best media center interface for others to use but I don't think Roku has anything to do with my issue.
If subtitles are used, it forces it to transcode and really no matter what quality it buffers every minute or so which makes it unwatchable. Also most 4K that I've tried watching will also buffer every 5-10 minutes but just for a few seconds, but that ruins the immersion for sure.
Now I can't see what's going on here to cause this. I thought for sure this would be more than enough hardware to easily transcode a single 4K stream if absolutely necessary which it doesn't even have to do, all it does depending on the movie is transcode some audio but still direct play the video.
Watching CPU usage via htop shows very little usage regularly and only ~10-20% during 4K transcoding if I turn on subtitles. But then it'll buffer every minute or so.
Network shouldn't be an issue either, both the server and Roku are wired into the same Ubiquiti Switch, I've been able to pull 1Gbps to and from the server so it should be fine on that end.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
- SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SRH-CLN4F-O
- Intel Xeon E5-2620 V4
- Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM ECC DDR4 2133
- SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 250GB NVMe
- 3 x HGST Deskstar NAS 3.5" 10TB 7200 RPM 256MB
My player of choice was Roku Ultra as it seemed to have the most compatibility and best media center interface for others to use but I don't think Roku has anything to do with my issue.
If subtitles are used, it forces it to transcode and really no matter what quality it buffers every minute or so which makes it unwatchable. Also most 4K that I've tried watching will also buffer every 5-10 minutes but just for a few seconds, but that ruins the immersion for sure.
Now I can't see what's going on here to cause this. I thought for sure this would be more than enough hardware to easily transcode a single 4K stream if absolutely necessary which it doesn't even have to do, all it does depending on the movie is transcode some audio but still direct play the video.
Watching CPU usage via htop shows very little usage regularly and only ~10-20% during 4K transcoding if I turn on subtitles. But then it'll buffer every minute or so.
Network shouldn't be an issue either, both the server and Roku are wired into the same Ubiquiti Switch, I've been able to pull 1Gbps to and from the server so it should be fine on that end.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.