Server Version#: Player Version#: 1.17.0.3002-f753d4a0 Has anyone got GLSL shaders to work for their Plex HTPC install? This was working fine for me in PMP, but doesn’t seem to work anymore for Plex HTPC. The glsl shader files were copied to the “%LOCALAPPDATA%\Plex HTPC”, like so: "C:\Users\moz…

[image] OttoKerner: Using ~~ as a placeholder for your user folder doesn’t appear to work reliably on Windows. Try using the complete path C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Plex HTPC\shaders It didn’t in the past but it does now. If the path were the issue, it would log a not found error in …

Using ~~ as a placeholder for your user folder doesn’t appear to work reliably on Windows. Try using the complete path C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Plex HTPC\shaders

Changing to a full path doesn’t seem to work either, unfortunately. On a whim I tried both forward slash and backslash, and even copied the shader files to the root C: drive in case the whitespace was doing something.

I am not sure that you can use a list of shaders. [image] HTPC Tips and Tricks Desktop Players Plex HTPC as well as Plex for Windows/Mac/Linux uses mpv as a playback engine which allows for a high degree of customization. Some of this thread’s intent is to outline some of…

This worked for PMP, I haven’t tried it with Plex for Windows. It’s unfortunate if shaders don’t work in Plex HTPC, but at least for the time being I can continue using PMP.

Thank you! That was it! There was a bug with an earlier version of the shaders I was using that only worked in open-gl, that has since been fixed, but I forgot to remove the open-gl workaround. Thank you again! HTPC is a huge improvement over PMP!

GLSL Shaders for Plex HTPC do not work

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OttoKerner May 29, 2022, 4:02am 4

I am not sure that you can use a list of shaders.

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GLSL Shaders for Plex HTPC do not work

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