I have a Plex Media Server attached to my HTPC via WiFi and Blu-ray rips attached via gigabit ethernet. VLC can play the rips no problem but Plex Media Player buffers frequently. This leads me to suspect that my movie files are making a round trip over WiFi through the PMS and back to the HTPC.
Can anyone confirm whether the PMS actually pulls files and hands them to players or if it just passes a URL for the player to open? If the PMS is transferring files can that behavior be overridden?
Latest Plex Media Server running on an Ubuntu 16.04 VM.
Latest Plex Media Player running on an Intel NUC running Win10.