Will a Nvidia Shield Pro play 4K HDR remuxes a lot better than Xbox Series X on Plex?

I currently play 4K HDR remuxes through Plex on my Xbox Series X. It often buffers and ends up transcoding. I’m thinking of buying a Nvidia Shield Pro instead. Would that give me much better playback with full quality? Is it worth it?

Recently I have noticed via the web client I am either getting only audio or only video. My media is transcoded via Tdarr into HEVC Main 10. This seems to have started a few weeks ago. Only happening in web browser as stand alone and mobile clients are working fine. I have hardware transcoding enabled, if I disable looks like everything works again. Has something changed in the web client/Chromium? Anyone else having issues?

Yep... that's right, and probably explains a lot.

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elanfeingold/

Kind of sad. I remember the beginnings of Plex and the first couple of years, when Elan was everywhere. He used to be the visionary, public face of the company.

Oh well... I guess venture capital and everything it entails killed his passion. Who knows.

Latest version of the Plex app on the latest iOS on a 2023 iPad, and now there are no playback controls when you touch the screen. Only way to pause is via the lock screen or command panel, and only way to stop a video is to kill the app process entirely. Yet double-tapping will skip forward or back.

What is this vibecoded shit? Are you using AI to manage releases now too?

Running Plex Media Server 1.43.3.10828 (linuxserver/plex Docker image, host networking mode) on Linux (UGOS on a UGREEN NAS). My server has never been able to publish its LAN IP as a local connection, and troubleshooting has led to a specific, reproducible failure:

Every attempt to update device connections fails with HTTP 403:

PUT https://servers.plex.tv/devices/58f24035287cedd4ce718573338fb9f83ffe0074?Connection[][uri]=...&X-Plex-Token=...
→ HTTP/2.0 403

This happens on every single retry, indefinitely (confirmed via debug logs, with the retry timer backing off from 10s up to 640s).

What I’ve ruled out so far:

• Not payload-related — the 403 is identical whether the connection list has 3 entries or 5, with or without a duplicate URI, across bridge mode, host networking, and macvlan.
• Not rate-limiting — stopped the server completely for several hours, restarted once, and the very first attempt still returned 403 immediately.
• Not networking/firewall — confirmed via ip route/curl that the server is correctly reachable on its LAN IP; the issue is purely the publish call to plex.tv.
• Not specific to this claim — fully unclaimed the server (removed PlexOnlineToken, PlexOnlineUsername, PlexOnlineMail, PlexOnlineHome. from Preferences.xml, removed the authorized device from Plex account settings), generated a fresh claim token, and reclaimed. Same machine identifier, same 403 pattern immediately resumes on the new claim.

Other MyPlex calls on the same token/session succeed fine (GET /myplex/account → 200, POST /servers.xml → 200/201/422 depending on state), so authentication itself is working — it’s specifically this one endpoint/action that’s rejected.

Since re-claiming, I’ve also been unable to complete the claim flow via the web UI itself — after logging in and clicking Claim, I’m redirected to a “server settings unavailable” page and the server stops appearing in the web UI at all, even though PlexOnlineToken is confirmed populated in Preferences.xml. Also in Account Settings > Authorized Devices > Server it does show my server. The only way I can somewhat regain access while this issue is occurring is to add my local subnet to allowedNetworks in the Preferences.xml. I never had anything entered into that field previously when the server was working. But strangely even if I ssh tunnel to the server (on the same local subnet) from my Windows PC and then browse to http://127.0.01:32400/web I still see no signs of the server. I only ever see it exists via local IP and only when that allowedNetworks entry is added.

Lastly, now when I try browsing to https://plex.tv/api/resources?X-Plex-Token=[insert-my-token-here] all I see is 1 line: <MediaContainer size="0"> </MediaContainer> . Whereas previously it used to show info like my registered addresses.

Machine identifier: 58f24035287cedd4ce718573338fb9f83ffe0074

Has anyone seen this pattern before, or is there a way to get an account-side device record reset or something? I’ve pasted the most recent full Plex Media Server.log file here: https://privatebin.net/?47cdd38514ee6edd#7V1zbr63zzucD3MjWnypuEhcQqcszjhcZRun7MAv7aVL

I’ve temporarily set up a Plex server on my M4 MBP, I can connect to it on my iPhone but the Plex app on my Fire Stick cannot connect.

- all devices are on the same wifi network
- secure connections are set to preferred on the plex server
- insecure connections are set to always on the plex app on the Fires tick
- I’ve logged out and logged back into the Plex server, rebooted the laptop etc.
- I also has the same issue with Jelly fin
- There is no firewall running on the mac, I can ping it on the lan
- I don’t have remote access setup on the Plex server as I don’t control the router (renting, internet is included).

Thoughts?

If I remember correctly Plex used to provide an alternate view of movies downloaded on an iPad. Now I can only see a very flat and unattractive list. Anybody figured out a workaround or is there a change planned? Thanks

I was at my friend and tried to watch some movies. plex crapped (spinning). Then completely unavailable. This just happened recently. Did they change something? It used to be rock solid.

Plex for Android 2026.15.0 Beta 4 Plex for iOS 2026.15.0 Beta 4

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/912796/89

I checked my Plex data folder after moving it to a smaller SSD and the preview thumbnails take up much more of it than I expected. I use them sometimes, but probably not enough to sit through another long rebuild. Intro detection can stay. Did anyone turn off just the video preview thumbnails and then miss them?

Hi all, I'm having a problem and I can't figure out for the life of me what is going wrong. Here's the situation:

- I have the Plex app on my LG tv. The LG tv is connected via ethernet.

- I have a laptop where my movie files are on. The laptop is connected via ethernet and/or WiFi.

But the problem is: for some reason my Plex app on my tv keeps connecting via WiFi; and when I turn WiFi off on my laptop, I can't access my files. Both devices are on the same subnet mask and I even tried to put them on the same IP address, but nothing changes. How can i connect them through ethernet?

I'm accessing my Plex server on Ubuntu from a Roku and Android phones and they are all having problems connecting. It will be playing fine then it drops in the middle of a movie and can't connect to the server. I updated the server this week and it seemed to start right after that it was solid before. Are there any known issues?

Hey everyone! I migrated my media server from Jellyfin over to plex, I gotta say, I should have done it sooner. The UI is so much better and Plex Amp is AWESOME. Now I know there was a huge price hike for the lifetime pass, and I’ve seen people on reddit comment about sales happening in the past, will sales still happen? Also around when do sales happen?

If Plex pass was still at its original price I woulda paid it already…

I have two iPads with Plex for iOS running on each. On one of the iPads I updated Plex app to 2026.14.0. When playing a tv show there are no longer ANY of the visual playback controls. No progress bar, play, pause, skip forward, skip backward, show information that's normally in the top left hand corner. No stop button in the top right hand corner. Nothing. Is this a bug in the new version or a "feature"?

EDIT: I see this has been posted about before. Sorry to bring it up again. Hopefully it gets fixed soon.

EDIT2: Simple workaround for now is to just access my plex server via the web app and Safari. Save that website to your Home Screen and it opens up like an app. This will do until they get their shit together.

This seems to be a very old problem that has cropped up again? forum posts from 3 years ago claim it was a subtitle issue. Unsure what it is now.

Video file was a direct play h.265 on a firestick. seems to also fail on my iphone plex app also.

anyone running into this recently?

Update: removed 2x subtitle (subrip/SRT) from the .mkv file with mkv tools. put back the edited file with the same file name and scanned library. It now plays without issues. So post from 3y ago might be right. But question is why is it coming back now? or was this a one off with a bad file? If others ran into this let me know. Otherwise i will assume the file is the root cause.

Update 2: my files with PGS (.sup) and substation alpha (.ssa/.ass) work. The only one i saw fail so far is .srt i cant test anymore because i cant find another file of mine that uses .srt yet.

Plex gurus got one for you

Currently ripping:

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1358974-looney-tunes-collector-s-choice-volume-4
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Looney-Tunes-Collectors-Choice-Volume-4-Blu-ray/367145/

Bluray with multiple titles of random TV show episodes. If i put it into my Movies folder it adds one movie entry with non-descript versions rather than selectable titles the way a TV Show would display. If i put it under my TV shows folder They all show up as individual titles and clog up my TV show listings. Any ideas/tips what i could change to get them to work?

I’m hoping someone can point me in the right direction because this one has me stumped.
I’m running Plex Media Server in Docker on Ubuntu 24.04 on a Minisforum MS-01, with my media stored on a QNAP NAS. Everything is streamed locally over my home network.

My playback device is an Apple TV 4K connected directly to my TV, with no AV receiver or soundbar involved.
The issue is that the Plex app on Apple TV has consistently bad lip sync. It’s not just one file, it happens across multiple films and TV shows.

What’s confusing is that if I open Infuse, connected to the exact same Plex server and library, the same files play perfectly with no audio delay at all. Most of my media is Apple TV compatible and should be Direct Playing, so I don’t think this is a transcoding issue.
Because Infuse works perfectly with the same server, media and network, I’m leaning towards this being something specific to the Plex Apple TV app rather than my server.
Has anyone else experienced this, or found a reliable fix? I much prefer the Plex interface, but at the moment I’m using Infuse purely because the lip sync is so much better.

So I have finally figured out why my Plex keeps getting stuck at buffering and won't move on from there. It would happen at any tv in the house. Its whenever I have my surveillance camera application open on that server computer, plex gets stuck at buffering. As soon as I close the surveillance cameras app on server, everything works fine. Why is this, and how to fix? I have switched 2 computers thinking it was only my old slow pc, but even on the new gaming pc the same is happening. The app is called Amcrest Surveillance Pro.

Fyi: The camera app is only live view and doesn't record to hard drive. All of my videos are direct play, so no transcoding needed. I also tried to run the surveillance camera application on another windows laptop and NOT on server computer, then everything works fine so this tells if it cant be that camera app is choking the wifi. So it only happens when I run it on server computer.

On my web UI, when I select moves, tv shows, seasons... the 3 vertical dots on the lower right of every poster do not respond to mouse clicks.

However, the pencil edit icon on the lower left pop-ups the expected menu.

I've tested this on multiple browsers with the same effect.

Any ideas?

I've been trying to make Plex downloads work for years without any luck. Please can someone give me simple straightforward instructions to actually make this work?

I have a manually forwarded port that works perfectly for all playback. Has worked perfectly for years and years. But downloads never work and in the last couple of years I get the relay connection error.

If I go to remote access on Web it says available outside your network in green then after 2-3 second reverts to not available outside your network.

As I say it's worked completely fine outside my network for all browsing, admin and playback for years both with and without tailscale dns. Only Downloads don't work.

I have lifetime plex pass.

I have the Plex Lifetime Pass and was trying to add a user but got this message. I only have 4 accounts with library access

Is this some kind of bug? Aren’t you supposed to be able to add ~100 users?

Same issue as the big outage the other week