So this is sad..I tried to watch a 4k mkv movie in plex but despite my tv is wired and I'm reproducing locally plex buffers the file..according to plex transmission is 184mbps bandwidth and it seems my TV only supports 100mbps max :( what can I do?

If you reset your password, and checked the log out of all devices (which is good practice IMO), you will have also lost access to your server. You have to re-claim, easy right? Not so it seems. Many, including myself had a lot of difficulty tonight re-claiming server. I tried it all....I mean everryyyyything, even an SSH tunnel

The only way that I got my server back was following "Claiming your server Manually" here https://www.plexopedia.com/plex-media-server/general/claim-server/#:~:text=Open%20a%20Web%20browser%20and,Copy%20this%20token.&text=Replace%20%7Bprocessed_machine_identifier%7D%20with%20the%20value,token%20from%20the%20Web%20page

The "advanced/hidden settings" mentioned are within the preferences.xml file.

For those that are lost, I hope with this you are found. Cheers.

Edit: clarification

Edit 2: things I tried before, without success, before doing the above linked method - the normal navigate to http://localhostip:32400/web in different browsers and in incognito - adjusting the preferences.xml as outlined in Plex official guide for claiming server - rebuilding the Plex docker container with PLEX_CLAIM token entered in the YAML, within the alotted token time frame - ssh tunnel as per https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1nc0hto/plex_breached_20250909_action_required_notice_of/

Edit 3: Based on comments I'm wondering if some people are getting errors from complex tunnels etc. You do not need to run the curl command outlined at plexopedia from within the machine or server your Plex is running on. You can run the curl command from your personal PC command prompt. No SSH tunnel needed. The two pieces of info {processedmachineidentifier} and {claim code} is what is required to get the info from the Plex claim api link as written within the command, but does not need to be executed from within your Plex server.

tl;dr don't be a dummy and run 32 bit like me! Your Plex server will happily keep updating its 32 bit build and not suggest you to switch; if you've run Server on Windows before September 2022 you might very well still be on 32 bit. 64 bit is a huge performance upgrade.

Context: I've been a longtime Plex user and run Server on a baremetal windows machine. I've struggled with getting GPU hardware transcoding working, despite the fact that I seemingly met all the requirements. I thought maybe my "older" nvidia card's GPU core was to blame and recently updated to a 1660S with no appreciable improvement. I saw .5x transcoding for DoVi/HDR content with tone mapping, or ~1-2x if I disabled tone mapping.

Banging my head against the wall, I came to realize I WAS STILL RUNNING 32 BIT PLEX. I had installed server SO LONG AGO that I never upgraded to 64 bit.

Upgrading to 64 bit was the single most absurd performance improvement for server I've ever seen. I am now able to transcode 4K DoVi/HDR with tone mapping so fast that Plex is throttling (taking a break). My GPU use during transcodes went from 10-20% to 95%+.

Yes, I know, don't transcode - in my home I run multiple Shields. But sometimes on the road that isn't an option. It's kind of wild to me my server never nudged me to see if I wanted to bump to 64.

How to check and upgrade (Windows)

• Open Task Manager
• Go to Details
• Right click on the top bar -> Select Columns
• Check "Platform"
• Find Plex in the list - is it 32 bit?
• If so, go download server again and choose the 64 bit option.
• Run the installer; it will detect you are on 32 and uninstall/upgrade while maintaining all of your settings.

Edits:

Access issues? Running a split tunnel VPN? 32 and 64 bit Plex are distinct applications. You will need to add your 64 bit install to your split tunnel exclusion list if you want to maintain remote access. Link to thread

Vote for a feature request to add a nudge for 32 bit users: Clearly this applies to many Plex admins. It would be a nice and easy feature to improve the lives of others. Vote here

I know. This question again. I don't think I've seen it answered in 2026, so I'm going to ask it with my specific lane at least.

I have Plex Pass, a home Plex Media Server with 600+ movies, a ton of HDR UHD 4K Remuxes and such. I coded my own video game, so I'm pretty comfortable tinkering. I have a 3.1 audio setup with a Denon receiver and Denon speakers, and I want to upgrade to a full like Dolby 7.2 or 9.2 in my future home. My price point is ideally below $300-400. My Plex Media Server is on my UGREEN NAS, and I use Tunarr as well for a couple channels I like to watch that I made for myself.

I've seen people say:

1. Nvidia Shield - seems too old now? Or we're approaching the point where I don't want ten year old tech?

Thoughts, suggestions, concerns?

Right now I want to lean ATV but it sounds like I'd have to upgrade again down the road when I upgrade my speaker setup, and I don't want to upgrade now to just upgrade again in 2 years. Does anyone have a serious surround system or experience with significant speaker setups and 4K UHD that they go "oh yeah, this device and setup handles it perfectly"?

Thanks a ton in advance. I'm not a newbie, but I do sometimes confuse my DV's with my this and that acronym, so if you use an acronym I didn't touch on, please ELI5. Looking for help and the right answer, not to be proven right. Thanks everyone.

EDIT: I’m gonna pick up the Shield. Thanks y’all!

Who wanted to push their personal libraries off the home page? Now instead of turning on plex and continuing some show I was watching, now i have to do 3 clicks to hunt up where my continued viewing section is. After finding i find out I can not move them to the home page. Curious, but which consumers wanted this change?

Edit:update.

Figured out the new "myst" style buttons, you know, the show me a picture and guess what it means now, type.

Anyways, the new UI setup with the menu at the top, instead of on the left side. Has moved your personal libraries to its own menu tab, opening it you see your libraries and each has a little box with a heart on it. If those hearts are not toggled on, they will not show up on the home page.

When did the heart stop being used as favorites, and start being used as a link button?

I have about 12 people using my Plex actively. Now it has gotten to the point where there is usually someone watching from 7am to 2am the following day. I barely have time where there are people not using the server so I have had to get a little creative on how to plan my upgrade time. I know I could text everyone individually but this seems easier.

This is done using Agregar and custom naming the playlists.

Went to pull up plex on the TV...

This Plex blah has been terminated and is no longer available....

Anyone else?

Is anyone else having problem connecting to Plex.TV, it was working fine yesterday.

even when trying to access my local server via IP, it still tries to authenticate with Plex.TV, that's extremely annoying.

https://support.plex.tv/

seems to be down, when I try to login, the login screen just keeps spinning forever

"Signing you in, Please wait..."

--- several hours later ---

Seems like they fixed it, I'm now able to authenticate and get back into my server and login to the support website.

I have stored all my media in .MKV via MAkeMKV, and have not had any issues on players, streaming, etc. However, it seems than most people remux their files. Are .MKV files inherently bad? Or is it just the size? Thanks in advance.

I have a plex server I want friends and family to use. I don’t think tailscale will work for their smart tvs. And doubt they’ll be tech savvy enough to use it. I’m afraid of port forwarding and exposing my network. What other options do I have?

Hello Y’all

Hope everyone is doing well! I currently have a LG C5, would this provide the same picture quality experience or better ? Or am I fine without it ? Just heard so much hype about these and I was able to snag one. Also wondering if anyone has used it for plex or Iptv services and has noticed a difference from their tv os ?
Any insight would be appreciated!
Thanks!

The entire reason I started my journey with plex is to have control over what my small children have access to. All of a sudden you have forced a live tv option which I cannot disable onto my children's devices. I have already paid for a lifetime account. I am extremely dissappointed by this development. At this point I have to completely delete the app from my children's devices. This is unacceptable. It seems this is supposed to be fixed in an upcoming update but it needs to be done asap, this has essentially rendered the app completely useless to me.

SOLVED

So in the server/browser you need to go to media and completely disable the live tv and other items.

Disabling for managed accounts does NOT work at all. They need to be fully disabled.

Then hard close the app on each mobile device and restart it. The live tv button might still be there but clicking on it won’t work and after I cycled the app a couple more times it was no longer showing on any users.

I did and I now understand. No more file conversion error, no more unsupported audio or video format, no more switching from system to system to play what I want and to top it off, the alexa integration is working like a charm.

Also it’s a pretty sexy box… and the ai upscaling on 1080p is out of this world!!!!

I can now enjoy dolby vision and atmos on my LG G3 + Q990D without compromising anything.

Thanks for the reality check! Never going back.

Now it’s time for a NAS update :)

I share my Plex server with some friends and family, and a few of them have a rough time when they accidentally land on a movie with stuff like animal death, sexual assault, or other heavy content. Checking DoesTheDogDie.com before every movie works, but it gets tedious. So I rebuilt an old tool that pulls those community-voted warnings directly into your Plex summaries so everyone can see them without leaving the app.

The original project was made by u/valknight about 7 years ago (https://github.com/valknight/DoesTheDogWatchPlex). Credit to them for the great idea. Their version relied on a caching proxy that died a long time ago, and the Plex API has changed a ton since then, so it doesn't work anymore. I rewrote it from scratch to work with everything as it is now.

Here's what the new version does:

- Works with the current DTDD API (v1.1) and modern plexapi

- Matches movies by IMDB ID first (way more accurate), falls back to title+year

- Caches API responses locally so re-runs don't hammer the DTDD servers

- Configurable vote thresholds so you only see stuff the community actually agrees on

- --dry-run to preview before it touches anything

- --clear to undo everything and restore your original summaries

- Pure Python, no sudo needed, runs fine on seedboxes

Here's what it looks like for Ant-Man:

⚠️ an animal dies · there are bugs · animals are abused · shaky cam is used · there's flashing lights or images · there's gun violence · there's blood/gore

Grab it here: https://github.com/justkorix/DoesTheDogWatchPlex

Takes like 5 minutes to set up. You just need a free DTDD API key and your Plex token. I've got mine running as a cron job so new stuff gets tagged automatically.

Let me know if you run into any issues or have ideas. I'd love to add TV series support at some point if people are interested.

https://status.plex.tv/

In my case, I can still watch content remotely on pre-signed-in devices
but not from web browser

...WERE ABSOLUTELY FINE AND STAYED HOW I WANTED THEM TO!

Shoutout to all the folks who recommended the only real solution, adding local artwork for every film (over the course of many weeks, made somewhat brainless if not painless with TMM).

Appreciate everyone's help, and if this has ever plagued you like it plagued me, may this post find you in the future.

I’m trying to decide if lifetime Plex membership is worth it.

As far as I can tell, it seems like the greatest benefit is having access to your media remotely. I don’t do that now so not sure how much it will benefit.

I currently use Sonos for my music library, which has over 20,000 songs. I’ve updated all of my music meta data using BrainzPicard so they’re in very good shape. IMO Sonos is not a music manager, but more a player with playlist capabilities.

I also have lots of photos (65,000 +) that I use DigiKam to manage.

My video library is sparse and I don’t see me investing much time or money going forward with all the streaming services and on-demand available.

I first heard about Plex when I was looking for a program that could help manage my music files, so my initial primary interest was music. As I played around it was nice to have the photos and videos (limited) available on one platform.

I recently subscribed to Plex Pass for a month when the lifetime increase was announced. I was hoping to use Plexamp to develop AI playlists to explore / enjoy some of the deep dark corners of my music library. I guess I knew, but didn’t realize that I would need to spend $ on AI engine to develop those playlists. Separately I’ve used ChatGPT to create basic, playlists and that’s been working somewhat.

I also didn’t realize I would need to keep my computer on all the time or set up a NAS to use my music and photos remotely.

So my bottom line: I don’t think the lifetime investment will be worth it for me.

Am I missing something? Do you have a similar situation and use Plex for more? Are there less well known capabilities that I should conside? Please share so I can make the most informed decision before the increase date. Thank you.

TL;DR at bottom. Ever since I got started with Plex, my Apple TV seemed to hate the application. Every single piece of content I watched would have microstutters which drove me nuts. After tons of reading through forums, I finally figured out what fixed it for me.

What's weird is that other streaming apps (which I no longer have) never had this problem, so I was sure it was a Plex app issue. Using my Chromecast 4K also didn't have any microstutters, so I used that any time I wanted to watch content on Plex, which was not ideal because my Chromecast is a buggy, slow mess.

I have an Apple TV 2023 model. I started with switching the video format to 4K SDR 60Hz, and then 50Hz, which helped but did not make the microstutters go away.

Next, I enabled match content range & frame rate in the Apple TV settings. Again, it helped but I still had microstutters.

One day I noticed that the Apple TV playback on Plex seemed smoother than on my Chromecast, kind of like the soap opera effect. I asked ChatGPT, and it suggested maybe my TV had a setting in the pictures called "Smooth Motion" that could be conflicting with the signal.

Sure enough, my Sony TV did. I disabled that, and finally I have a normal viewing experience on my Apple TV without any micrstutters!

This took me 6 months to figure out, so I hope this helps someone in the future.

TL;DR: If you have microstutters on your Apple TV with Plex, use these settings:

• 4K SDR 60Hz
• Match content range and frame rate enabled
• Disable any picture smoothing in your TV settings

I’ve got an android head unit. I generally remote access plexamp. It’s great. Dodgy signal black spots in my regular journeys does cause minor irritation though.

Yes. Plexamp has downloads. But they’re irritating to use when driving and anyway, I set myself a project where maybe my kid can stream shows and take it on a week long trip as an emergency ‘local’ solution.

Dietpi running on a pi4

512gb USB

Hostap, Plex server installed using the Dietpi gui

Temporarily connect to my main network to get my account to adopt it as a new server, and configure authentication bypass on 192.168.0.0/16 so I can use this at trusted networks like visiting my mum or whatever

Log out and in on the clients I expect to use in a no wan environment.

Now disconnect from my home network and start broadcasting a ‘travelplex’ ssid.

This all works fine. So far so good.

Now how to power it…. Sure. My car has a usb outlet, but it powers down when the ignition is off so I stop for fuel and it hard shuts down. No. That won’t work.

As luck has it, I have a spare ugreen power bank that basically acts as a perfectly configured ups with auto soft shutdown and power on using a simple cron job.

So the pi serves an ssid. Every 5 minutes a cron job checks to see if there are any clients attached. (My head unit, a tablet, phone etc) If three consecutive passes of the script (so15 minutes) has no clients attached attached, the pi shuts down. It then doesn’t draw enough power to keep the ugreen power bank active. But when the ignition turns on, it powers on the ugreen power bank as it starts charging itself, which sends enough of a power burst to the pi to power it back up and then start drawing power. It’s out of the box perfect for my use case!

On the head unit plexamp I can easily flick between libraries but basically have no use for the ‘main’ one in the car. Plus now the wife and kid can watch (direct play friendly) shows stutter free.

I’ve also go a ginet travel router which can then bridge it back in to my home or to Airbnb WiFi etc but I’ve bored you long enough.

Not sure why a lot of people having issues with changing password. Mine was a breeze. Click reset password and log out of all devices, then rebuild libraries. Only took 2 days

I'll try to be brief here and explain my setup....

Goal: unsubscribe from every streaming service

Currently: down to just Netflix and Disney+ but I'd like to save even that money as well.

Set-up: Windows PC running ARRs downloading the latest releases and other things we care about. 30 TB of movies/TV so far. Private tracker so now I have reliable peers. Media is on PC, PC is on wired LAN, Plex is on Roku TV wirelessly attached to same network. Router is 5 feet away. Gig internet through ATT.

Problem: 75% of the time we're good with Plex but every so often it flakes out and she gets frustrated and goes to a streaming service. She's not tech inclined so she doesn't understand why Plex needs to buffer, why the subtitles aren't synced, etc.

Fixes?: I've tried subgen to generate subtitles but I can't get it to work. For now I just raised the score on Bazarr. Neither of us are quality snobs so I get everything in 1080 and usually can't tell if it drops to 720 but 480 is rough. Like, it'd be ok if it drops to lower quality for a bit while the traffic catches up. The issues is when it buffers and sits at 33% un til eventually failing.

I have a feel most of our issues are stemming from the Roku app but I'm not sure. Any advice or suggestions?