Roku and Plex black screen or blank screen for a second or two while watching movie

[pcslookout]

What could be the cause please?

 

[pcslookout]

It is more of a flicker but I never seen it because I don't use it.

 

[Railgun]

Are you direct playing/streaming or transcoding?

 

[pcslookout]

Are you direct playing/streaming or transcoding?

Not sure I know Plex is in use.

If some of my C drive is being used at the time does that mean it is transcoding ?

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Could be your HDMI cable.

 

[Railgun]

Well, I'll need more info really. What are you watching on, and what/where is the server? What is the source material? DVD? Blu-ray? Is it a direct, 1:1 rip or was it encoded to a smaller file at a lesser bitrate?

By default, it should be configured to direct play, which means it's not transcoding the file...it's playing it as is. A lot of devices have issues playing a direct stream with, say, a native blu-ray rip. My AppleTv 4, LG tv, and any idevice have the same issue. The PS4 seems to be ok.