Apple TV 4K audio sync issues with enhanced player

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Plex for Apple TV 8.21
PMS for Mac 1.32.4.7195
Apple TV 4K (2nd generation)

We experience these Plex for Apple TV app 8.21 bugs, audio failing completely and the scrub bar UI becoming dysfunctional, with OTA Live TV HD (all 1080i and 720p), rendering PMS effectively again useless. and, perhaps even worse, leaving Plex users without any mitigation options whatsoever—yet again.

(It seems we have experienced audio sync shift with every PMS and Plex player Apple TV and iOS app versions during the last 15 months, so I suspect the AV sync bug(s) reported by others is(were) not introduced by 8.21, but rather are bugs of long-standing.)

Plex does not keep multiple Apple TV and iOS app versions in their respective app stores, so users are screwed when severe bugs like these are released.

These Plex for Apple TV app 8.21 bugs affect watching all OTA current (ie, HD) broadcast content:

  • content during OTA live broadcast TV watching;
  • the playback of previously successfully recorded content (both recently recorded by PMS 1.32 and content recorded many months ago by previous PMS versions); and
  • watching live shows that are scheduled to record while they are being recorded.

All our Library content was recorded by PMS for Mac.

The only content we can now watch are old reruns on or from stations broadcasting SD (ie, 480i)—yet again.

This Plex severe dysfunction began abruptly with the Plex for Apple TV app 8.21 installation:

Plex for Apple TV app 8.21 AGAIN (appears) to Dung; Repeating Problems like 8.6

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These Plex for Apple TV app 8.21 severe bugs now making Plex again completely useless appear similar to the even more catastrophic bugs introduced last year 22 July 2022 when the Plex for Apple TV app 8.6 was dumped on users—Plex was without any value whatsoever for 32 days!:

Plex Useless; Apple TV 8.6 & 8.7 Player FUBAR—Can't Play TV; iOS Player 8.5 Can't Play Shows Being Recorded:

Plex did absolutely nothing for more than a month. A workaround was finally re-posted by a user—disabling the setting Auto Adjust Quality. I don’t know if the 8.6 (thru at least 8.7) bugs were ever fixed—I have not dared to ever re-enable Auto Adjust Quality.

Apparently, these bugs would also manifest if Use Old Video Player was enabled. I had never enabled Use Old Video Player, so I don’t have any experience thereof:

Live TV does not work with Apple-TV

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I have only been dealing with Plex’s apparent casual-testing-of-releases for 15 months. Does the term “enhanced player” in this January 2020 topic’s title by any chance refer to more recent Plex for Apple TV app functionality when Use Old Video Player is disabled?

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