High bitrate (4K/HDR) content video render freezes every 10-15 minutes, while audio keeps playing

Server Version#: 1.32.0.6918
Player Version#: 5.58.2

TV Model: OLED55C16LA
WebOS Version#: 6.0.1-4529

Hi,

Ever since a few months I have not been able to properly use plex, any content that has anything but a bitrate higher then roughly 15Mbps will have the issue with the video render freezing while the rest of the content keeps playing.
The higher the bitrate, the more often this interruptions are (ranging from twice during a full movie, to every 10-15 minutes).

To make it worse, you can’t fix it by just quickly going in and out of the movie, only after waiting ~45 seconds you can press play again. Pressing play any earlier results in the video renderer staying black while the content keeps on playing.

The overlay and menus work fine while this is happening, the TV’s display itself is not frozen.

Considering this issue seems to have appeared around the same time as when PGS subtitles can cause the app to run out of memory, I wonder if this is also memory management related. Especially the wait time feels like this is me just waiting for the renderer to get shutdown / freed from memory

Would really love to see this fixed

I want to note that I watched another movie just now, but no issues showed up. Maybe this has been fixed in the last few weeks, I’ll report back when this happens again and see if it maybe only persists on a certain combination of codecs

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