This is where Plex Media Server stores previous versions that you’ve installed.
I opened the folder for the version prior to the current one (current is 1.41.4.9463-630c9f557, previous is 1.41.3.9314-a0bfb8370), ran the exe to install it, and now it’s working for me.
If you just installed PMS for the first time and don’t have any old versions available, Plex doesn’t have a download page for previous versions. However, if you search for “plex old version,” there is a GitHub page that has links to download old versions directly from Plex’s servers.
Been meaning to say, this solution to rollback to a previous update worked for me. Thanks! I also see the banner at the top saying the problem has been identified and fixed. I’m not quite brave enough to try it yet unless someone else confirms 1.41.4.9463 definitely works on Windows with AAC now?
For anyone else trying to make it work. I manually downloaded all the linux_x86_64 codecs and then put them in the folder “Codecs/e613bce-97f23d579c1001d8e9cc0d2e-linux-x86_64”. Seems to have done the trick…
Tried installed an old version of PMS on windows (after removing all the relevant folders such as codecs folder) but still doesn’t seem to work unfortunately.
I’m sure the Plex team will find a way - currently back to old school computer plugged into the tv with an HDMI lead!
For what it’s worth, copying the zipped Codecs you provided into my Codecs folder fixed my issue. Thank you very much, helped us get through a movie night.
It also led me to backtrack and figure out wtaf was going on with my Linux Plex server.
Copied over my Codecs folder from a working Linux installation… All fixed.
Worked like a charm. Deleting the /Codecs folder and restarting PMS would recreate the /Codecs folder and sub-folder, but wouldn’t re-download the codecs themselves. Just did a wget on all the files above in /e613bce-97f23d579c1001d8e9cc0d2e-linux-x86_64 folder and restarted PMS and everything works again.
Since I am a new user it wont let me post all the links, but for mac you do the same thing but you change each link from linux-x86_64-standard to darwin-x86_64-standard and you change the extension from .so to .dylib.
You will also need to highlight all of them after you have them in the directory, right-click and select the open option to get mac to allow you to approve them to be used.
I only tested this on the intel chip, not sure if there are different files for arm
If you are looking for your Codecs dir look in the following places ~/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server /Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server /System/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server
It may be in any one of those depending on how you installed PMS
@wmr1980_1 there is a codecs zip someone above uploaded for windows, if you wanted to download from source instead you would follow the same instructions here for windows, but change linux-x86_64-standard to windows-x86_64-standard and all the extensions from .so to .dll
Where do I find the codecs folder on Mac? I don’t have a Plex folder in Library/Application Support, and there isn’t a codec folder in PMS application contents.
Just FYI
