Installation was painless and I let the server re-index all the media as I didn't feel like transferring databases and the like.
Clients running on other machines play perfectly, even insanely high datarate HD content.
However, the kids watched a movie using the client on the server itself connected to our lounge TV (via hdmi). I noticed some shudder & jitter on slow pans and zooms. When next accessing the Server Manager, I noticed 17 performance issues reported, all of which were CPU threshold related with Plex reportedly maxing out the CPU.
100% CPU usage is apparently normal when transcoding media according multiple posts on Plex forums. However, I would not expect the Plex Client to need to transcode media - unless I'm missing some codecs on the machine.
I'll need to look into this a little more.
2 comments:
why not using xbmc? no transcoding need it
I've been using Plex for about a year and like it a lot (and know it!) so have no inclination to move, though I expect XMBC would do the job just as well. In any case, the issue was not related to transcoding but rather the fact I was using the onboard X3500 graphics. Changing to discrete PCIe graphics fixed the issue.
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