"I'm tired, boss"

Currently on AppleTV 4k Gen 3, and almost a third of my library is still unplayable. I'm having issues with both DV 7 and 8, even though people seem to be only reporting issues with DV 8 playback.

I was contemplating buying the new AppleTV 4k Gen 4(has native DV 8 support), using the dovi-convert docker, and converting all my DV 7 to DV8. But honestly, I didn't want to spend $300 testing if that would resolve my issues. (If the developer of dovi-convert is reading this, it would be awesome if you added an option to strip out DV 7 and 8, since you utilize dovi_tool)

So I decided to stop chasing my tail and just come accept that I can do without DV; even though my TV which is below 1000 NITS would benefit from it. Just vibe coded a script utilizing dovi_tool that strips out all DV 8 and 7 profiles, and leaves the underlying HDR10. Anything without DV 8 and 7 it ignores. I tested three movies I had issues with, and now they are playing flawlessly. I just setup the script in a Flow in TDARR docker and I'm YOLOing it at my library.

Am I a fool playing with fire? Maybe. But this is the level of desperation I'm at trying to make sure my library is playable. Would love for an option on the Plex app to simply just ignore DV 7 and 8, and just automatically play the HDR10 layer.

Before anyone mentions Infuse, I'm aware it can play DV 8 and properly handles DV 7 fallback to HDR10. I just don't want to be forced to use another app.

All of a sudden I’m having trouble playing 4K movies in the Plex iPhone and Apple TV apps. It just sits at the spinning wheel when starting a 4K movie, doesn't matter if it’s a REMUX, WEB-DL or encode.

The same movies work in the Plex app on my Mac and in Infuse on the same iPhone and Apple TV. Forcing a 1080p video transcode in Plex gets it playing immediately. I checked the server logs and session details and the phone connects locally without Relay, and switching audio tracks to avoid transcoding still leaves it buffering at 0:00. No explicit playback/transcoder error showed up in the server log window and Infuse plays the original 4K file on the same phone without transcoding.

Running iOS/tvOS 27.2, Plex iOS 2026.20.0 and PMS 1.43.5.11079 on Unraid with binhex-plex.

Anyone else seeing this?

I tried to skip forward on a movie and now it just doesn’t play anymore, even if I restart plex.

Does anyone know how to turn off this notification? I am only seeing it when using Plex. My ATV is just updated to TVOS 27.2, and my Plex app is up to date.

There doesn't seem to be a Plex option in the ATV Settings-> Notification (see pic 2) or any way to fine-tune Plex under the ATV Settings-> Apps (see pic 3). I've also checked in the Plex app settings and don't see anything under Settings-> Experience or Settings-> Player Experience.

Very frustrating, and annoying every time a new video starts. (ya, ya, ya, 1st world problems, I know.)

Any help is appreciated. This seems to be a Plex app problem, not an ATV problem; as I mentioned, it only happens when using the Plex app (doesn't even happen when I use the TV app or Music app).

I've been running a Plex server with a Plex Pass for multiple years. Just within the last week or so, all of a sudden my server has been crunching away constantly "Generating loudness data" for seemingly every single piece of media in my Plex library. This is generating modest but steady background CPU usage during that time from the "Plex Transcoder.exe".

Is this normal intended behavior?

Is it normal for it to be doing this 24/7 instead of just during maintenance? I'm inclined to just let it finish doing whatever it needs to do, but after doing this constantly for a full week, I'm just not sure at what point I should start to wonder if something is wrong. Is it really normal for it to take weeks? I do have a fair bit of media, but weeks just to "generate loudness data" seems a bit off.

It is an "older" CPU for what that's worth. A Xeon E5-1660 V3, or the Xeon equivalent of an 8-core i7-5960X extreme edition.

Hi everyone!
I've configured Tautulli's Notification Agent to send "recently added movie" to Slack. I wonder is there any way to replace the section "View Details: Plex Web" by a "Watch Now" button ( with same action ) or something like that?

Appreciate all your help!

Plexamp v4.50.21-beta.3

Desktop is on the beta channel now, and mobile is on TestFlight and Play testing. The main ones: the desktop sidebar can tuck away for a tab bar, and the widgets keep getting better.

Added

• Desktop: a button at the top of the sidebar tucks it away for a tab bar along the top, and brings it back.
• Android: a tall Now Playing widget fills its spare room with up to four upcoming tracks.

Fixed

• Desktop: the Albums, Singles and other headers on an artist page open the full list again.
• iOS and Android: Plexamp uses less memory when it starts.
• iPad: tapping the top bar or the sidebar’s button no longer scrolls the page back to the top.
• iPad: the sidebar highlights the section you just chose.
• iOS: the small widgets read better in CarPlay and on iPad.
• The Now Playing widget shows what’s next as Artist – Title, and its buttons are all one size.
• Android: Plexamp no longer crashes at launch on some older phones, such as the OnePlus 8 Pro.
• Android: playback no longer pauses itself at a track change with the screen off.

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/221280/132

I’m so happy that plex finally added official widget for Plexamp! I’ve been waiting ages hoping that this would happen. With that being said. Since I don’t like subscription services and prefer hosting as much as I can locally. Could we please get a widget for the main Plex client app also? Plex and Plexamp totally replaces Apple TV and Apple Music for me. WOuld love to have a widget like the Apple TV app but for Plex instead.

ITEMS ADDED:

• (Metadata) Added support for reading artist and album metadata from NFO files in music libraries (PM-6153)
• (Network) Ignore manually specified public port for IPv6 connections (PM-5364)
• (Network) Send subnet information to plex.tv so IPv6 and non-private local connections are detected correctly (PM-5364)
• (Security) The server no longer trusts the eMudhra certificate authority roots whose intermediate signing keys were compromised (PM-6479)
• Updated Web to 4.162.1

ITEMS FIXED:

• (Butler) Scheduled loudness analysis ran on movie and TV libraries that had it disabled (PM-6263)
• (DVR) Harden validation of the post-processing script setting (PM-5538)
• (Metadata) Stream display titles left out the format for Plex for Roku (PM-5906)
• (Music) The record label was not read from the ID3v2 publisher (TPUB) tag in MP3 files (PM-3800)
• (Network) Added IPv6 support to the preferred network interface (PM-6017)
• (Network) Try every resolved address when connecting to pubsub servers (PM-5760)
• (Remote Access) The server could keep reporting its port as mapped after remote access was disabled, which left Plex Web waiting indefinitely (PM-6260)
• (Security) Address a library scoping issue in search results (PM-5958)
• (Security) Fixed request locality when the server's local network interface is unknown (PM-6183)
• (Security) Increase security on requests arriving through a proxy (PM-6201)
• (Thumbnails) Video preview thumbnail generation on Windows no longer leaves temporary index files behind; bundle cleanup removes existing ones (PM-3536)
• (Transcoder) Photos could fail to load for clients connecting through a reverse proxy (PM-6476)
• (Transcoder) The server could crash while building an HLS playlist for media without a video stream (PM-6226)
• (UltraBlur) Colors were computed from the thumbnail when an item had no artwork of its own, so episodes and seasons did not match the background shown by clients (PM-4282)

DOWNLOAD LINK: https://www.plex.tv/media-server-downloads/

This problem existed with previous version before the big update, but a simple fix was enable the "Older Player" in settings.

Now the new version got rid of that feature and now its showing blocks instead of the subtitles, after playing for 2-3 minutes, it buffers every 5 seconds and eventually crashes when I exit the player (2nd screenshot), I've tested .mp4 and .mkv with both Traditional Chinese and Simplified chinese.

Doesn't happen on iOS version. I'm running tvOS 27 with Apple TV 4K 2nd gen

Is there any hope of bringing back the "Older Player" in settings? Or a fix to this?

Plexamp v4.50.21-beta.2

Desktop is building for the beta channel now, and mobile is on its way to TestFlight and Play testing. The main one: home-screen widgets are here, on iOS as well as Android.

Added

• Mobile: home-screen widgets, Now Playing and your hubs. Android, we took yours away at the start of the beta; consider this an apology with interest.

Fixed

• Android: Plexamp no longer crashes every time it starts after a big download queue.

Android widgets1280×2031 379 KB Android Now Playing widget1280×2158 291 KB

iOS widgets1405×1690 457 KB

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/221280/131

I have a massive collection of radio drama and fiction podcasts (audiodramas). I would like to put these into Plex. But I have a question before I get started.

For movies, I use the standard method of folder names: Movies -> The Godfather (1972) -> The Godfather (1972).mkv

But my radio drama collection is currently setup in sub-folders by Genre. So, I've got folders for each radio drama, but they are in genre sub-folders like Mystery, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, etc. So, the folder structure might be something like this: Audiodrama -> Science Fiction -> The War of The Worlds (2017) -> The War of The Worlds 001.mp3.

Is there any way to make this work with Plex? Or do they need to all be in one giant master Audiodrama folder (with no genre folders)?

Hi everyone,

I'm stuck troubleshooting Remote Access in Plex and could really use some help.

Background: Until a couple of days ago, I was running Plex on a Windows 11 VM in Proxmox without any issues. I recently migrated Plex to a Proxmox container (LXC). The server is running fine locally, but Remote Access is completely broken.

The Problem:

• In Plex settings, Remote Access shows as unavailable.
• Connecting via the Android app from outside the home network fails to connect.
• However, connecting from an outside network via a web browser using http://[WAN_IP]:32400 works perfectly, and media plays without issue.

What I've Tested & Verified:

• Manually specified port 32400 in Plex and forwarded it on my router.
• canyouseeme.org confirms port 32400 is open and accessible.
• Tested on a fresh container to rule out a bug, but the issue persists.
• Tested installing Plex on a separate Windows 11 PC on the same network—Remote Access failed there too.
• Network checks: No double NAT, ISP does not use CGNAT, UPnP is enabled, IPv6 is disabled on the router, router has been restarted and firewalls are not blocking the connection.

As a hobbyist, I’m stumped as to why direct browser playback over WAN works fine, but Plex's Remote Access feature fails.

Does anyone have suggestions on what to check next? Any help is greatly appreciated!

My ISP has been doing work in my neighborhood so internet was going in and out throughout the day. In trying to configure my Plex setup to work locally when there's no internet I've hit a roadblock and am hoping someone can help. I was able to set the list of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without authorization on my Plex server (Synology NAS.) On the client side, however, Gemini AI says the Plex client app on my android based streaming devices (DirecTV Osprey boxes, Google Streamer and Chromecast, Amazon Firestick and phones) will often want to check the internet and should ideally be configured with my Plex server's local IP address using Settings>Advanced>Manual Connection. Settings>Advanced>Manual Connection is nowhere to be found in the latest version client app. In searching this forum I see the Manual Connection issues in the past. The conspiracist in me wonders if the absence of Manual Connection is another symptom of their growing emphasis on internet streaming at the expense of those with their own libraries, but perhaps somebody else has a solution.

The pre-roll function has not worked for me in a while....I did the update this week and they work again. I didn't see it listed in the release notes but I am not a smart man.

Edit. I'm running server version 1.43.5.11079 that also just updated.

Everyone's talking about Apple TV alternatives lately, but I want to know what the consensus is on Nvidia Shield options. Since the latest Plex client update, I'm getting micro stuttering, significant interface lag, and numerous QoL changes have made using Plex just so painful.

I already run a Jellyfin server and use Wholphin in parallel, but I like Plex media server and would like that to be my main server if I can manage it.

And, yes, I know I can sideload an older Plex client APK if I want to. But what if I don't want to?

So what are your recommendations?

This weekend I set a recording in plex to record a sporting event because I knew I wasn't going to be home for the beginning.

In older versions of plex I was able to go to the guide and long click on the event to get the option to watch live or from the beginning.

Using the updated android version of plex.

Am I missing something or did plex remove that ability?

Also. I noticed that trying to go thru my guide that I can scroll down a few channels and all of a sudden the guide will jump to where I started. It will do this multiple times before it actually moves the selection to the channel I want.

Same if I scroll up. Scrolls up 3 or 4 channels and jumps right back to the channel I am on. Very frustrating.

Had this happen on three different android devices.

Is there a way to change the thumbnails automatically for certain shows to avoid spoilers?

For some game shows/reality TV shows, I'd like to have the episode thumbnails be some kind of placeholder or generic image because I have seen spoilers more than once from the thumbnails.

I haven't been able to find a solution other than manually changing them myself, does anyone know of an app or something that can do this?

I"m a big hockey fan and want to supplement the games with a 'trailer' with the games highlights sourced from YouTube. Can I somehow assign the highlight as the trailer to the main 'feature'?

Do I then go about it in the following structure:

Plex > Media > TV (Sports) > game.mkv trailer.mkv ?

It's probably not going to work since Plex pulls the trailer from somewhere off site though, right?

I have young kids and it is fantastic to have the Common Sense Media rating available for each film. But, I would like to sort by this value. Is there a way to do that?

What other way could I filter to display movies that are suitable for a certain age, or younger?

Updated the library (added around 10 albums), and the dashboard is stuck as above.

First time I see this "XMediaRecode3625" notification popped up, is this normal? Kind of paranoid nowadays with all the security concerns. BTW is there a way to check if your Plex server is infected or no?

I am running a plex media server on a windows 11 box. It has been running perfectly for many months.

All windows based plex clients (with the exception of NVIDIA Shield clients) can see all libraries and play media

All NVIDIA shield clients (both remote and local) are missing two of 8 libraries.

The missing libraries are Photo libraries -- no photo libraries are showing on NVIDIA or Android plex instances.

I have cleared cache on nvidia shield boxes with no success.

Since this issue extends beyond one NVIDIA shield box, it would make me think the issue lay within the media server.

I have tried to delete access on the media server and readd the NVIDIA Shield for access, but that also doesnt work.

I have checked folder permissions with no success.

I also checked on the Plex Phone App (android), and the same two photo media folders/libraries are also missing, so this issue extends beyond just the NVIDIA Shield.

I have also uninstalled and reinstalled Plex Client on both phone and nvidia shield with no success.

Thoughts?

(Thanks in advance.)

Hello.
I have an old CD collection, around 100 or so audio CDs that I would like to convert and store in my media server, before I put them all in storage (I have recently moved, and can no longer afford to keep CD racks around).

The last time I've converted any audio stuff was over 20 years ago, when FLAC was the format to got to. Id this still the case, or is there another format out that is better?