True HDR Metadata passthrough with Plex HTPC on Windows (For problems with Windows 11 24H2 and HDR switching scroll down to the end of this post) Here I just want to write a small guide on how to achieve a true HDR experience with Plex HTPC, now that it´s released and the main Plex HTPC thread is …

[image] Mitzsch: [image] gbooker02: Interesting. With vo=gpu (not gpu-next) I was getting more frame drops in D3D11 than in Vulkan. Oh, that is interesting. Maybe it´s just the CPU on my side. I’m using an “older” Ryzen quadcore. How is your GPU usage while using Vulkan? (Mine is substan…

[image] gbooker02: It seems like it uses twice the memory of D3D11. The amount of memory used is proportional to the pixel count in the source file so I would suppose this is decode buffers. I have also checked my measurements again and can confirm your measurements - roughly double the VRAM …

[image] Mitzsch: On my system, [D3D11 and Vulkan 3D usage] are equal in this regard. I measured it with GPU-Z and Task manager and both tools showed the same percentage. I have not used any shaders, maybe they have a huge impact on that one. As I stated I do suspect Task Manager’s measurement…

[image] millercentral: post install script Just wrote a dirt-simple PowerShell script. I used a folder under c:\temp\mpv as a place where I store my mpv builds that I use for Plex. Put this in a move-my-mpv-dll-somewhere.ps1 file and open Powershell ISE as administrator. (we need admin righ…

[image] Mitzsch: Just wrote a dirt-simple PowerShell script. Thanks for this. The main thing I’m struggling with is the “workflow” – Plex HTPC will update itself at launch if it has previously detected and downloaded an update – I haven’t seen a way to disable that – and once it does, playbac…

[image] millercentral: I haven’t seen a way to disable that You can disable auto-update with [debug] disableUpdater=true added to the plex.ini. [image] In the Plex For Windows client, how can we tell if we're running the current version? Desktop Players Plex Docu…

[image] Mitzsch: You can disable auto-update with [debug] disableUpdater=true So with this piece of the puzzle, I decided to try something dumb - I created a powershell script that does automatic, completely unattended updates to PlexHTPC on Windows and also updates the mpv library to the la…

Maybe I’m blind, but I can’t figure out where to put mpv.conf. Also, when I copy the new mpv file into the folder and rename the old one it breaks video playback in PlexHTPC.

[image] Mitzsch: In the Appdata dir (C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Plex HTPC) create a new mpv.txt textfile. Now change the file extension from .txt to .conf. Then right-click on the mpv.conf and open with editor or notepad. As written in the first post - the mpv.conf should be put in your C:\Us…

Do note that starting with HTPC 1.20.2, the mpv library is now mpv-2.dll and is not mpv-1.dll.

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Mitzsch June 11, 2022, 10:22am 22

You can disable auto-update with

[debug]
disableUpdater=true

added to the plex.ini.

Stop HTPC Auto Updating

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