Notice all the other controls the HTML5 media player also provides you with. If your likely to resize the window to a smaller "postage stamp" or "rearview" window size on your desktop while conducting other work the stream will appear crisp and clear and the lower resolution and bitrate will be completely unnoticable. at worst you'll get a "softened" slightly blurred effect that will probably improve with time or become generally unnoticable.
The brower will still "Scale" the content as the window is resized with whatever resolution the HTML5 media player is capable of producing from the stream. The effort will be worth the smooth and seamless playback experience henceforth. Once you have profiled and selected a "stable and sustainable" client bit rate it will remember it and all your playbacks going forward will begin at the new bitrate and won't take as long to start. be patient and let it complete the bitrate transition. the result can be while "testing" different bitrates the time to "restart" can seem inordinately long. Note: When starting a new session at a different bitrate the Plex server will have to buffer the content at that new bitrate and "catchup" to where it was in order to "resume" the playback at a different bitrate. This can be important if either the network bandwidth is over WiFi, the Plex server isn't up to the task of Transcoding at the bitrate requested or for any other reasons that a sustained high speed connection cannot be maintained.įirefox does have the ability to playback using HTML5 but it must be manually configured to prefer it over the flash media player.įirst go to about:config in Firefox and tap (dbl click) the Preference to set that to "false", then tap (dbl click) the Preference to set it to "true". Google Chrome however defaults to the HTML5 player and gives you control over the stream parameters. That browser plugin does not allow changing any parameters for the stream request, it is hard coded.
If you are using the default Player type for Firefox 41.0.1 that will be a Flash media player.
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Here's how to fix that.įirst the Plex media server doesn't decide what the Transcode parameters will be for a stream, that is decided by the Player that requests a stream. It stops and starts, stutters or doesn't play at all. Plex playback in Firefox can be a problem.
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