Player Version: 1.90.1 Whenever I am watching a video on Plex Desktop, the fans speed up significantly and CPU utilisation spikes, clearly indicating that the player is not using hardware decoding for the file. I’m running the official Plex Desktop app which was installed via Snap. The device is …

Same issue on Flatpak version! [image] Plex Desktop on Linux (Flatpak) is not doing hardware acceleration Desktop Players Player Version#: 1.76.2.3951-15712eae On Fedora (but I don’t think the distro matters), Plex Desktop installed as Flatpak. When playing 4K HDR HEVC fi…

Same issue with a 7940hs on ubuntu 23.10. plex-desktop and plex-htpc snap, none of them works with hardware decoding. Has been the case for more than 6 months now… It works well everywhere else, except on this “new” machine.

More than a month and nothing is fixed. I tried to upgrade to ubuntu 24.04, now it is even worst. In addition to plex-htpc being unusable, the new version of kodi also broke my composite addon. And none of the plex addon are working (PM4K, PlexForKodiConnect or plex). Now the mini-pc is a nice bric…

Likewise. I had thought of getting plex pass when it was on sale recently, but not a chance now. Even if they fix this issue soon it will take a while to rebuild trust. More maddening is I want to make my point and get off Windows due to the recall announcement, and this has delayed it as the plex …

GPU Decoding not working on Plex Desktop for Linux (Snap/Ubuntu)

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Same issue on Flatpak version!

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GPU Decoding not working on Plex Desktop for Linux (Snap/Ubuntu)

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