Weekly Build Help Thread

I’ve got local auth and DLNA setup, yet no access to my own server via any client apps. Yay.

This isn't Plex specific, but I think relevant to those of us maintaining plex libraries.

Sharing a video of this being discussed by Linus Tech Tips, but... A federal complaint revealed a persistent Windows identifier that helped investigators follow one machine through VPNs and proxies. Looks like this broke in the news a week or so ago, but I don't see discussion on here.

Just wanted to share for those running Plex and perhaps other apps that you may keep behind a VPN for privacy. Running Windows means your VPN no longer keeps your machine anonymous.

Let me open by saying multiple outages like this in a short span while also jacking up prices is absolutely pathetic. I get things happen, but cmon Plex. Get it figured out. With that being said… they have allowed us to watch locally without authentication for a long time… Set it up properly people! I’ve tested mine on multiple devices and each one works locally. Also didn’t have any issues 4 days ago when it was down. And if this is a regional thing and I’m not impacted in the Midwest US then I apologize.

Here’s the link to setting up local access without authentication.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/200890058-authentication-for-local-network-access/

I set mine up years ago and haven’t needed to do anything since. I never have an outage. Internet goes down? No issue. Plex HQ servers go down? No issues. Hell, even when my power goes out I can still watch on my phone and tablets with my UPS.

At least in Melbourne right now I'm just getting hit with cloud flare errors, connection timed out, SSL handshake failed and so on.

Android and TV clients seem unaffected for me, just can't get on the web app.

I'll add my tech specs and settings below. And yes, I already know that this can be resolved with Infu$e. But before we dive into all that, I just need to know if this is even possible or not because I've read countless posts with so many contradicting answers.

On the Plex App, I can direct play my MKV files with no problems (more of a direct stream, but you get it). When I enable subtitles of any kind (SRT, PGS, or VOB), it starts transcoding and therefore stuttering. Can I achieve direct playback with subtitles by tweaking my settings or not?

Playback Details:

• Client: Plex App - AppleTV 4K 3rd Gen - tvOS 26.5
• Video: MKV container, h.264 codec
• Audio: AAC
• Subtitles: SRT

Settings:

• Auto Adjust Quality: On
• Home Streaming: Maximum
• Allow Direct Play: On
• Use Old Video Player: On
• Use Old Audio Engine: Off
• Burn Subtitles: On Image Formats

What’s the volume of your plexamp library? Curious to see how many people are loading up album after album like I am due to the ridiculous ads from Spotify. Currently at 2600+ songs, I’m not sure how many GB/TB exactly. Planning to backup my server on BRDL disks and store them offsite at possibly a friend’s house. I’ve also been thinking about audiobooks but I haven’t looked into the possibility of that through plexamp, so any recommendations are welcome!

My collection on Plex almost entirely is made up of rips from my personal blu-ray/4K collection of movies. Out of all of them, only one has a problem where when I try to play it (through the Plex app on AppleTV 4K), it just crashes/closes the app entirely. No indication of an error, it doesn't play a little bit of the movie and then crash; I just click play and boom the app is closed.

I can confirm that I can play the file on my Windows PC with either VLC or MPC-HC just fine. No issues there.

Any particular reason that this would happen? Or a way to fix?

My current setup (LG WebOS) isn't doing for me anymore.

I do have a couple of the og Xiaomi Mi Box S's, but they are very long in the tooth... So need to get something new.

I'm looking at either the new version (Xiaomi TV Box S), or the latest Apple TV.

Any reason I should spend 3x the price for the Apple?

I'm having trouble connecting my LG TV to my home server.

Every other device in my network works fine, laptop, TV etc.

When I use the Plex app it starts but says notConnected in logging on screen with little explanation of what the issue is.

If I connect using the browser it loads but the connect via Google button is greyed out.

I tried changing the DNS on the TV but that hasn't helped.

Getting "An internet connection is required to scan library files" message when attempting to scan files via the web interface on my Windows 10 machine and my laptop. I can access all files on my devices and stream music and video. Settings have remained exactly the same for ages. Restarting the Plex server did not resolve this Any ideas?

Or even with Plex Pass just let us pick a color from the grid. I’ll play with Moonlight or Bubblegum because sometimes I like the color transformations, but I always go back to High Contrast. Classic black.

So I have far too many computers, and unfortunately my main "Recording Studio" Mac Pro is stuck on OSX 10.13

Right now, my server is running, and I can access it from every single computer in my house except for this machine.

I had a brief reality check when I thought "Do I have other music on this machine - which has about 20TB of local storage of TONS of music", haha, but I'm just so used to opening app.plex.tv and just firing up an album.

I know this is a LONG SHOT - and most likely won't work, but if anyone knows of a workaround, (or just somehow, magically, an older version of the desktop client would work) that would be incredibly helpful!

Thank you.

Yall, I need help as this is getting very aggravating. I've got the scan and match stuff down, but the shows that it doesnt recognize I can not get to show up. For instance, if I add a folder containing TV Show media files (same extension and all that as other files) and it doesnt recognize them, the files just dont show up in Plex. Period. I mean, even if I switch from "TV shows" to "Folders" and open the folder manually it's empty. And this is for multiple shows I've tried to upload. Am I doing something wrong?

Example: I love Gundam, I have a folder full of different series. One folder contains the 2 ovas for Seed Astray. When I add that folder, not only does it not add it as a "show" the files do not appear ANYWHERE in my plex. It will only work if I upload them as "other" but I want to have them in the TV shows tab.

TIA!

It was working on my ps5 for over a year. Today, I'll get the logo then a black screen.

I've rebuilt the database, cleared the cache, reset my PS5, and just tried deleting the app and reinstalling. I also tried changing my DNS settings to manual, 8.8.8.8 primary and 8.8.8.4 secondary. No luck

Anyone else know a fix?

I've got a bit of a dilemma which I'm struggling to find a solution. My film libraries are on my Nvidia Shield Plex server (server is Nividia Library) and my music and audio books are on my PC (server is Family Library). Looking to move everything to a new PC, is this possible to have everything in one Server rather than across two. Thanks in advance.

We’ve released an update to the Plex preview channel - 9.14.8

NEW:

• Add background color to Activity feed.
• Render emoji in user profile fields.

FIXES:

• Fix “Other Videos” item aspect in related hubs.
• Fix live TV crash when stopping a paused player.
• Fix missing ultrablur on list activity details screens.
• Fix possible focus loss on artist screen after refresh.
• Search button on list zero state should open search screen.

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/9463/523

Hey all,

I recently set up a Plex server and I'm looking to enable remote streaming so I can access it during work breaks. However when I enabled remote stream within minutes I got several notifications that Xfinity blocked attempts to access my network. Does anyone else get these? I turned remote access off but now I'm scared lol

I haven't connected any new devices so it's definitely not me.

Some just don't scrape correctly. When I go to the advanced settings for Anime, I select episode ordering to be TVDB, but I don't get an option there for TVDB (Aired). I can fix this issue on a show by show basis by changing episode ordering to TVDB (Aired), but it would be nice to just set this as default for my entire build. Is there something I'm missing? Worst case scenario it's not that big a deal to do this on a show by show basis, but I'd just like to know a better way of doing this. I'm not certain how my TV shows are yet. I just had to redo my Plex setup.

Hello, I’m starting to create my Plex server and I need some help regarding the anime aspect of it…
I don’t know if it’s possible but how would one go and have an anime list all episodes and Ova’s in chronological order and play them subsequently?
Cause one of the animes I recently added, I put the 3 Ova’s inside the folder S00 and name them accordingly inside my drive, but when I see the list inside Plex they are listed before the first episode of season 1…
Is there a fix for this??? Or it’s just not possible to have both Ova’s and episodes run along each other?

So this has been going on pretty much since I got the drive, but I don’t know if it has got worse recently or just that my patience has finally worn thin.

About three years ago I purchased a larger 20tb WD Elements drive to replace my 8gb version of the same product line.

I never had these issues with either of the 8tb drives I had, but for some reason, the 20tb drive will “spin down” after a short duration of inactivity and then basically need to be “woke up” anytime I need to look at something in it, which causes a noticeable delay. This translates to Plex, where almost every time I open Plex on one of my devices, none of my media can be found at first and I need to wait sometimes up to a minute, maybe more, for it all to actually appear. This also happens if I have to pause the movie or show for several minutes.

I’m using a 2018 M1 Mac Mini and have “Put hard disks to sleep when possible” deselected, but it still doesn’t help with this specific drive. None of my other drives have this issue.

I would typically just ask for recommendations on a more performance driven drive and get a new one, but as we have seen, prices aren’t exactly ideal right now so I’m trying to troubleshoot.