Plex add-on and CPU usage,

    Hi everyone,

    Been a long time lurker, however, thought I would join in. i am using my old Android box which is an Amlogic S905x CPU. I had installed libreelec via USB then progressed to install locally on the box. All working well indeed! I wish I had found libreelec years ago, what a better way to utilise these boxes, Android that is installed on them in real bad sometimes!.

    i have set up libreelec to use the Kodi Plex add-on. My pMS is being served up data from a NAS mount point, all working well. The issue comes in when out of the blue Plex is hogging sometimes 140% CPU, drops to 90% then holds for say 30mins to 60mins before returning to normal. This is when I am attempting to play a movie. The movie in question is 1080p (H.264), so no transcoding should be taking place via the Plex MacOS app.

    Anyone seen this type of behaviour before?

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    PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                                                                                           
 3571 nobody    20   0  425572  46468  18464 S 140.3  2.5  14:41.94 Plex Media Serv

    /shrug