As you may know, Lemmy.world has decided to ban any communities that deal with the subjects of piracy. Considering that this sub might be considered piracy-adjacent, I'd like to make it clear that discussing the subject directly is not allowed, nor is requesting/offering Plex shares in posts or comments.

This is a community for discussing Plex products, serivices, add-ons, etc. and getting adivce and support or those apps/services. It's not a place to discuss piracy. I understand this is a fine line to walk and requires a certain amount of compartmentalization in our discussions, but it's what keeps our discussions from becoming legally problematic (depending on your jurisdiction) for our instance hosts and keeps our community federated with and visible to as many users as possible!

Thanks, Everyone!

-- The Mod Team

• Plex FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions about using Plex Media Server and client apps with many useful links
• Useful Plex Add-ons - Detailed info on many Plex add-ons with setup guides and other useful links
• Join the c/Plex community on Matrix!

EDIT: it should be noted that discussions that may involve piracy ARE PERMITTED (as it pertains to Plex and its add-ons) in our Matrix community chats (linked above and in the sidebar), as they’re not Lemmy-related and aren’t going to get this community in trouble here. However, all other rules still apply.

PUBLIC - Version 4.113.2

Platform: Plex Web

New

• Added Cast list to Season and Episode details pages when available
• Discover Together: Allow remove rating activity directly from Profile
• Show header and breadcrumb when viewing hubs from Home

Fixes

• Discover Credits: Fixed blank avatar styling
• Fixed an issue that could cause some users to not be able to remove Friends
• Fixed arrows appearing on number inputs in Firefox
• Fixed an issue in the Home Continue Watching list that could cause items to not be displayed by order of activity
• Improved library sharing modal messaging when user has multiple servers

Hello, Community!

As you may have noticed, I've been trying to find the right community icon for the last few days as could get quite the right one. So I made one that combines the Plex logo with the Lemmy logo.

I think it looks prtty nice, and I hope you like it, too!

Cheers!

-- u/BrooklynMan

• Plex FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions about using Plex Media Server and client apps with many useful links
• Useful Plex Add-ons - Detailed info on many Plex add-ons with setup guides and other useful links
• Join the c/Plex community on Matrix!

Weekly Advice / No Stupid Questions Post

This is part of a weekly series of Plex Advice threads for novices and pros alike to ask questions, give advice, troubleshoot, and share knowledge and resources! Please be polite and helpful to beginners just getting started out, and we want to be as welcoming as we can to newcomers to this community.

Common subjects can include:

• Plex Media Server setup
• System requirements and advice buying components
• Advice choosing the operating system that's right for you
  • Getting started with a new operating system (eg. Linux)
• Advanced setup and configuration
• Help with PMS add-ons:
  • Docker
  • VPN advice
  • Setup / configuration of the *arr family of apps (Sonarr, Radarr, etc.)

Anyone who posts good starter guides, FAQs, and/or wikis may get their links added to the sidebar so the rest of the community can benefit!

Cheers!

Useful Resources

• Plex FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions about using Plex Media Server and client apps with many useful links
• Useful Plex Add-ons - Detailed info on many Plex add-ons with setup guides and other useful links
• Organizing and Naming Your Media Files
• Troubleshooting Server Connections
• Plex User Forums

I'm starting to create managed user accounts for my two daughters on plex. They are 7 and 4, so movies I'm giving them access to consist mostly of Pixar/Disney type stuff. Well, when I log into their users, it has recently added movies and TV shows, which show appropriatle the things I've given access to from my server. But below those it has "Binge Worthy Shows" "Plex Picks" "Summer Lovin'" and a few others which are all hosted "(on plex)" It even is advertising "The Marksman" right now, which is a guy holding a shotgun on the cover.

Is there a way to turn off those (on plex) suggestions so it ONLY shows the movies that exist on my server? Ideally I could just turn off those suggestions on a user basis as well.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

Weekly Share-Your-Build Post

This is part of a (semi-)weekly series of Share-Your-Build Post threads for everyone to share their builds, discuss different server solutions, and share knowledge and resources! Please be polite and helpful to beginners just getting started out, and we want to be as welcoming as we can to newcomers to this community.

Common info to share can include:

• Plex server make/model
• CPU and GPU info
• Storage solution info
• Plex add-on info (Radarr, Sonarr, Docker, etc.)
• other configuration info

Anyone who posts good starter guides, FAQs, and/or wikis may get their links added to the sidebar so the rest of the community can benefit!

Cheers!

PUBLIC - Version 7.7.0

Platform: Roku

New

• Update social activity button style.

Fixes

• Fixed missing overflow menu button on Live TV.
• Fix social activity button flashing while navigating between episodes.
• Fix social activity button width on initial display.
• Fix the missing avatar in a shared message in the activity feed.
• Fix clipping on “Watch from these locations” hub when there are many locations.

PUBLIC - Version 7.6.1

Platform: Roku

New

• Remove option to sign-in using a code (Roku cert requirement 2.2).

Fixes

• Add possible fix for delayed audio sync after seeking.
• Make next/previous post play items selectable when returning from screensaver.
• Remove “releasing” date from Live TV details screen.

PUBLIC - Version 2.123.0 (client v5.66.1)

Platform: Xbox

New

• Change default remote quality from 4Mbps to 12Mbps Added volume support for Plex Companion

Fixes

• Fixed episodes hub not displaying on miniseries preplay screens for Discover source
• [Community] Number of friend suggestion hub items is now 10
• [Discover Together] Fixed disclaimer overflow in the Privacy Settings screen

PUBLIC - Version 5.66.1

Platform: Samsung 2016 to 2022 Televisions (Tizen 2.4, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5)

New

• Change default remote quality from 4Mbps to 12Mbps Added volume support for Plex Companion

Fixes

• Fixed episodes hub not displaying on miniseries preplay screens for Discover source
• [Community] Number of friend suggestion hub items is now 10
• [Discover Together] Fixed disclaimer overflow in the Privacy Settings screen

PUBLIC - Version 5.66.1

Platform: Playstation 4/5

New

• Change default remote quality from 4Mbps to 12Mbps Added volume support for Plex Companion

Fixes

• Fixed episodes hub not displaying on miniseries preplay screens for Discover source
• [Community] Number of friend suggestion hub items is now 10
• [Discover Together] Fixed disclaimer overflow in the Privacy Settings screen

PUBLIC - Version 1.45.1

Platform: Windows, Mac, and Linux

New

• Change default remote quality from 4Mbps to 12Mbps Added volume support for Plex Companion

Fixes

• Fixed episodes hub not displaying on miniseries preplay screens for Discover source
• [Community] Number of friend suggestion hub items is now 10
• [Discover Together] Fixed disclaimer overflow in the Privacy Settings screen

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PUBLIC - Version 5.66.1

Platform: Hisense models (in United States and Europe) running the U4 system software

New

• Change default remote quality from 4Mbps to 12Mbps

Fixes

• Fixed episodes hub not displaying on miniseries preplay screens for Discover source
• [Community] Number of friend suggestion hub items is now 10
• [Discover Together] Fixed disclaimer overflow in the Privacy Settings screen

PUBLIC - Version 5.66.1

Platform: LG webOS 3.0+

New

• Change default remote quality from 4Mbps to 12Mbps

Fixes

• Fixed episodes hub not displaying on miniseries preplay screens for Discover source
• [Community] Number of friend suggestion hub items is now 10
• [Discover Together] Fixed disclaimer overflow in the Privacy Settings screen

PUBLIC - Version 5.66.1

Platform: VIZIO SmartCast

New

• Change default remote quality from 4Mbps to 12Mbps

Fixes

• Fixed episodes hub not displaying on miniseries preplay screens for Discover source
• [Community] Number of friend suggestion hub items is now 10
• [Discover Together] Fixed disclaimer overflow in the Privacy Settings screen

Before I even start let me say that I know the suggestion is to put 4k into it own library...

99% of my movies are 1080p and that is my preference for space and quality balance. However, there are a few choice movies that I'll want a 4k version of. I would rather my users get defaulted to the highest non-4k version but then have the option to select a different version if they were savy enough to do that.

Feels like it shouldn't be a terribly complicated feature. Have a "include x quality in default version selection". Or hell for my random case use if I could just manually reorder them I'd be happy.

Can anyone point me in the right direction here? I have a pretty beefy PC I use as a server and HTPC. 24 2.5ghz cores, 64gb ram, kind of a crappy video card, debian 11. I just migrated all my stuff over and stress tested it supporting 8 different transcribed streams simultaneously (mix of in/out of local). That worked great.

BUT, the video playback is choppy (as in frame skipping) and out of sync when I'm running the HTPC program. Oddly using the web client on the same machine avoids that issue.

Any thoughts? I'm wondering if it might be that it's an older TV it's plugged into and there's some issue there. Thing is, like I said, the webclient its worlds better. Webclient seems to have some issues but I'm pretty sure that's just due to the TV.

Any pointers are helpful! I'm OK at this stuff but very much learning.

There's apparently a Plex outage currently. And it's a bit frustrating as it's preventing our TV app from connecting. Just an endless spinner after choosing a user despite only using local media etc.

PUBLIC - Version 8.23.1

Platform: tvOS

New

• A crash when launching the app on devices running tvOS 14 and tvOS 15.

BETA - Version 1.32.6.7371

Platform: Mac, Linux, and Windows

Fixes

• (Agents) Some attributes were missing from legacy agent api responses (#14436)
• (Analysis) MP4 Atom Parsing could fill logs (#14418)
• (Automatic Scanning) Symbolic links with missing targets could cause changes to later entries in a directory not to be detected (#14398)
• (DVR) Could not record a show if a show with the same name (such as a remake) and episode number already existed in the target library (#13444)
• (DVR) Devices could fail to be recognized when IP addresses change (#13529)
• (DVR) Multi-lineup DVRs could be created as single-lineups (#14395)
• (DVR) Tuning in channels could fail for channel names containing special characters (#14391)
• (Debian) Remove GPG lower version limit (Music) Scanning music could be pathologically slow in some cases (#14389)
• (Playlist) Adding a Clip to a playlist would unexpectedly convert it to a photo playlist (#14381)
• (Transcoder) An incorrect fallback font could be used when burning subtitles in some cases (#14357)
• (Transcoder) Certain newer AMD GPU models couldn’t be used for hardware transcoding on Linux (#14416)

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PUBLIC - Version 8.23

Platform: iOS

New

• Some devices may not be prompted for local network access and therefore couldn’t access local PMS.

Download from iOS Apps Store

PUBLIC - Version 8.23

Platform: tvOS

New

• Performance improvements to the sidebar and home screen hubs.

Any idea why this would happen. I think it’s mostly (if not always on my roku that I’ve noticed it.

Off by ~2 seconds if I directly play but is fine if I downgrade the quality.

PUBLIC - Version 9.28.0

Platform: Android

NOTE: We are performing a staged rollout, which means the update may take a day or two before it becomes available.

Fixes

• App could crash displaying the activity feed.
• Player: strip out HDR10+ when playing DoVi P8.1 & HDR10+ stream on a DoVi display.
• Player: postplay would sometimes be missing the play icon.
• The list of muted and blocked accounts could be cut off.
• Player: ensure TrueHD is transcoded on FireTV 4K Max devices that don’t support TrueHD.
• Player: switching to another quality could fail when multiple versions exist.
• [Mobile] The Grant Media Access flow would result in an error if the user does not own a Plex Media Server.
• [TV] Sidebar icons would end up in a weird state if clicked while content was loading. [- TV] Returning to a collection after browsing an item would scroll to the top.
• [TV] Friends: app could crash when unmuting or unblocking a user.
• [TV] Platform: app could crash while signing in on Amazon Fire TV devices.
• [TV] App could crash editing a managed user account.

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store.

DOWNLOAD APK (Plex Pass required):

• Google Play (armv7a)
• Google Play (arm64v8a)
• Google Play (x86)
• Google Play (x86_64)
• Amazon AppStore (armv7a)
• Amazon Fire OS Devices (armv7a)

When I first learned how to put my media into Plex, I did it by using Handbrake, compressing the content down to .mp4, and doing my best to use “audio passthrough” for the highest quality audio tracks I could find. But nowadays a lot more discs are coming with TrueHD, which apparently isn’t supported by the .mp4 container.

I’m wondering what I should do for these audio tracks. I don’t really want to keep my media in .mkv format because of the challenge of getting subtitles to work and because the .mkv files are enormous. I’m assuming that hevc isn’t the answer, since I believe that still uses the .mp4 container. Any advice?