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I will have to look at it later, no more time today. Thank you for the help

It seems it's transcoding but i dont know how to disable it top - 15:15:02 up 5 days, 4:28, 0 users, load average: 4.75, 2.86, 1.62 Tasks: 339 total, 2 running, 336 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie %Cpu(s): 70.2 us, 2.2 sy, 7.1 ni, 20.4 id, 0.2 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.1 si, 0.0 st MiB Mem : 31951.9 total, 22039.6 free, 3284.1 used, 6628.2 buff/cache MiB Swap: 0.0 total, 0.0 free, 0.0 used. 27896.6 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 32407 nobody 20 0 1277080 1.0g 13296 R 457.3 3.2 4:00.66 Plex Transcoder 5741 root 20 0 10.9g 212476 48968 S 3.3 0.6 146:13.07 unraid-api 28606 nobody 20 0 253932 79588 28496 S 1.3 0.2 4:32.91 Plex Media Serv 28155 root 20 0 721016 12236 1740 S 1.0 0.0 2:55.55 containerd-shim 6336 root 20 0 695596 26700 516 S 0.7 0.1 33:57.75 shfs 9351 root 20 0 95564 30688 24056 S 0.7 0.1 0:00.22 wg_poller 10819 999 20 0 449104 11424 5704 S 0.7 0.0 1:54.78 pihole-FTL 698 root 20 0 95512 14328 7816 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.03 php-fpm 2203 root 20 0 4748 2800 2544 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.01 intel_gpu_top

Sorry i dont know how to see that, i'm not that tech savy

Plex is not showing anything in the dashboard, and yes i know where the info is it is transcoding

Yes, but there is no transcoding going on

Have also tried Emby and Jellyfin and its the same. Regarding the Cpu. When i try to play 4K content it pretty much runs all cores at 100% ?

Have tried with my Sony Tv with Plex installed and it's the same And yes all on the same port

Client is a New Apple TV 4K. Maybe i'm dumb, but should it not be able to playback mkv's ? 1080 mkv is running fine. Dont see any settings in the Apple Tv or in the Plex app regarding 4K ?

1. The server is only a storage server with Plex installed 2. Have tried with Windows and Mac machines all hardwired 3. Network run at max speed if i test it.

I have a question about direct play (no transcoding) with Plex, Emby and so on, and hope here is the right place. When i want to play something 4K, the playback is buffering all the time and i would like to know if anybody can tell me where my bottleneck is. I can get a smooth playback if i transcode with Intel Quick Sync but it can't be right that i have to do that on my local network with only one user ? I think it's the cpu that is not powerfull enough but i'm not sure. Network is cabeled 2,5Gb were the player is an Apple TV 4K with a 1Gb connection (No wifi anywhere) Don't run any VM's Unraid server is Asus PRIME H410M-A Intel® Core™ i5-10400 CPU @ 2.90GHz 32 GiB DDR4 2,5 GB network card 3 spinning disks 1 cache ssd I have no Gpu in the machine, would it help if i did or is a Gpu only used for transcoding or can you also use it in direct playback ? Hope someone can help me forward, thanks.