Hi,

 

I recently switched from using Ubuntu Server to unRAID 6 on my HP N54L system.  Really liking it so far.  I'm a heavy Plex user, with various clients around the house, including three Roku 3 units.

 

The problem i'm having only seems to happen when using the Roku client, and the kicker here is that it never happened on my old Ubuntu Server setup, so I can only conclude its something to do with the Docker based Plex Server setup on unRAID.

 

So, the problem is that occasionally, videos will fail to load on the Roku client. The server is up, i can select the show or movie, but it fails to load.  Using the unRAID webui to restart the Plex Server docker sometimes fixes this - more often I have to Stop then Start the docker (not sure why that would make a difference).

 

I think there may be some interrelation with transcoding.  I'm not totally sure what formats the Roku 3 supports, or if transcoding is a factor here, but i've also been trying to get a TVHeadend plugin for Plex to work, which I know requires transcoding (from MPEG Transport Stream to, well, something playable) - this fails every time, with errors in the plex log.

 

Posting here in the hope someone else has experienced this and can provide some guidance!

 

Specs: HP N54L microserver, 16GB ECC RAM, using the linuxserver.io docker, serving content from the main unRAID share.  I do have a plex account / subscription (whatever you call it) too.

 

Thanks in advance!

Hi -

 

Do you have a cache drive, and if so HD or SSD?  Also, when you have trouble getting a video to start streaming are there already devices streaming, or does this happen on the first instance?

Just to finally lay this to rest.. I had stupidly set the transcoding temp location to a non-existant path - the transcoder was crashing when it tried to transcode for the Roku client. My bad!