I have been using Plex Media Server with two Chromecasts for about a year now, with next to zero problems. Over the last couple months, a highly annoying problem crept up and is starting to happen so frequently that it's become unusable.
What's happening is that you can watch a video and it will just suddenly stop, like the video is over. I have been told a number of things to try, but have gotten no where so far as to alleviating the issue.
- Some of the video files that fail now used to work fine in Plex before
- Files that fail come from numerous sources in numerous format (home videos, cell phone videos, ripped videos, etc..)
- Files that fail will not always fail
- Files don't always fail in the same spot
- My computer does not sleep when this happens
- My hard drives aren't sleeping when this happens
- All video files that fail in Plex play flawlessly through other apps that cast video to Chromecast
It has been suggested that the files are corrupt and/or sending back an incorrect EOF, but the attached logs show that doesn't appear to be the case. The only sketchy thing I see is:
Jun 23, 2015 22:05:36:141 [4524] DEBUG - Shutting down idle session dc8iwfelmobt9 (idle time is 180 seconds) Jun 23, 2015 22:05:36:141 [4524] DEBUG - Killing job. Jun 23, 2015 22:05:36:141 [4524] DEBUG - Job was already killed, not killing again. Jun 23, 2015 22:05:36:141 [4524] DEBUG - Stopping transcode session dc8iwfelmobt9 Jun 23, 2015 22:05:36:157 [30448] ERROR - PeekNamedPipe failed: 0x6d
Aside from this issue, Plex is great. It has all the features I like and need which is why I bought the mobile app... Unfortunately, it's become unusable. Does anyone have any ideas on how to resolve this issue?