PLEX : Problem with VIDEO_TS playback

bozolino wrote:

sphardy: thanks a lot, it works ! however, having to mount an afp volume each time before using plex is kind of odd no? afp is slow and full of overhead, which is one reason why i opted for direct network playback via plex... plus, the odd thing is: playback with FILES works "out of the box"... only VIDEO_TS folders are a problem. a fix on the plex side should be rather straightforward to implement, so let's hope the devs get a chance to look at this...

I think you are misunderstanding how Plex works and what direct streaming actually means in this context

The Plex client will access the media in different ways depending on the client capability and the network setup.

If media is discoverable in the same location on both server & client, and the client is suitably capable, then the client can access the media directly - just as any other media player can access the same - and the sharing protocol is whatever you choose to use (AFP, CIFS, NFS etc). Else the media will have to be streamed via the Plex server.

When streaming, Plex will either stream the media as-is, or it will transcode and/or remux the stream, again depending on the capability of the client.

"Direct streaming" as supported by Plex simply refers to there being no transcoding - that the client plays the original media though it may or may not be remuxed, and may or may not actually be streamed via the server

As streaming is only supported for media files, not for VIDEO_TS folders, this is why the share must be mounted first on the remote client such that the client can access the VIDEO_TS folder directly at the same logical path and the client must understand the DVD file structure of the VIDEO_TS folder. Both requirements therefore preclude iOS access