I’ve had trouble streaming Plex in the bedroom, 4K content only. Lot’s of buffering/stutters.
I still haven’t got around to networking the bedroom to Ethernet, just WiFi.
Out of curiosity I opened VLC on the bedroom Nvidia Shield, and there’s an option to access devices on the local network, including my NAS. Opened the file directly and it only buffered once, slowed for about a minute (the audio sounded like my cat playing with my turntable lol) but then it caught up in 30 sec or so and streamed flawlessly after.
Not sure why it worked better, but figured I’d post here as a hack for others in similar situations.
It wasn’t even transcoding. It was showing as direct play on the dashboard.
It’s been a problem ever since I set it up about 2 years ago.
And, it actually transcodes just fine at friends homes. Or on my phone with a VPN on and 5g.
I originally had PMS on my Shield in the living room and assumed it was related to that, but I just moved PMS yesterday to my PC instead and the problem persisted.
I meant you could try workarounding it by transcoding to lower quality in the room where you have the problem.