

Not to be lazy I’ve tested same material (720p mp4 file) on my i7, 16gb PC and got the same result!. I have both Direct Play and Direct Streaming enabled in Plex player but even with this Synology CPU spikes to 100% and it’s not possible to watch anything. I am perfectly aware that Synology is rather old to do any transcoding but I was hoping that LG might do this for me. My plex server is on Synology DS1813+ (Intel Atom D2700) with 4GB RAM and 5 4TB HDDs.Īudio is delivered from LG TV set to Cambridge Audio Edge NQ via ARC HDMI.īoth Synology and LG are on a gigabit ethernet connection. Thanks for any help.I’ve recently bought LG OLED55C9 which is meant to be the centre point of my media playback. It's annoying to check the screen for the a music title or see who is on only to find a black screen looking back. Has anyone found a way to disable the screen saver function? I know the logic for having it (to prevent OLED burn in) but I'm not leaving the same image on for more than the song duration (about 3-5 minutes). But i don't use those methods often, mainly Plex to access my music server where I have about 500 CD's stored in ALAC format. Interesting is that the screen saver doesn't come on when using Spotify on a Fire TV stick or if I playback music through a USB device. I also tried opening the hidden menus by pressing the mute button 5 times but that menu didn't have anything relevant. I've tried all the different methods to disable the screen saver function including turning off the Timers, Auto Power Off, HDD Storage, etc. If I run Plex (or Spotify) directly on the LG TV via the LG Content store app, the screen saver with fireworks always comes on in about 2 minutes. After about 20-30 minutes, the album art and other related music information (lyrics, song title, duration, etc) all goes black. I mainly use Plex for playback of my music which is stored on a central server (NAS) and from the app loaded on a Fire TV stick or cube. On virtually all my LG TV's (I have three OLED's and two LCD), the screen saver interferes with my music app (like Plex, Spotify or Amazon Music). I've seen an older thread on this topic but it doesn't look like anyone found a solution to disabling the screen saver, so I'll try a new one.
