He’s asking which version of the Plex app. It sounds like you are using the normal (public) release. You would need the beta (testing) version for AV1 to direct play in software, another app that will do software decoding, or you can try the option veeejay suggests.
Yep. I’m pretty sure they’re using the current (soon to be “legacy”) version as well. I sincerely wish they’d just go ahead and push the new experience app given the “staleness” of version 8.45. It had some serious issues when it was last updated and it hasn’t seen one in more than a year. It’s time to put it out of its misery and just deal with the inevitable fallout of mainstreaming the new app (it’s pretty good in my opinion).
@d_ne6 Another option is the Infuse app, if you’re not too price-sensitive. It can pretty much play anything directly. It does have a cost associated with it, however. It’s been around for a long time and is constantly under development. Its single biggest issue for me is that it doesn’t support live TV (via a local tuner), but I have a separate app for that.
I do appreciate that Infuse, like Plex Pass, is something you can get month-to-month if you want to try it out, so there’s no big commitment. But at the same time I loathe subscription software. At least Infuse still has a lifetime option.
Anyone who says subscriptions is how things have to be done for business solvency never used computers in the ‘90s and early 2000s.
Yeah, I paid the lifetime subscription years ago so I’d have a decent client for Jellyfin (for which there are none natively).
