Or has the Plex build gone real down hill.
PLEX please can we concentrate on the major playback issues that seem to plaguing everyone and halt the whole DVR and additional nice to have features,.
It seems to me that since these features started to come online the problems of the basic features have started to grow.
Recent builds have been very flakey and frustrating. i.e remote access stopping working.
For me nothing changed on my network or hardware. the only thing that changed was the Plex server buildâŠ
What does everyone else think?
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I agree, last couple of weeks everything seems to be a shamble. For example, I updated the server yesterday to 1.13.3.5223. Attempt to launch Plex on the Nvidia Shield, canât get past Settings. Reboot Shield, still stuck on settings. Navigate to Server, says itâs connected, click on the already connect server, maybe that will help? Finally the libraries etc appear. Go to play a video. Oh! they still havenât fixed that bug where it instantly stops and leaves you selected on the next episode. Later on in the evening, DVR recordings get missed with no information in the notification as to why. I wonder if theyâll record tonight? Who knows when you use Plex, everything is just the luck of the draw. My God, I wish Microsoft hadnât killed Windows Media Center. Imagine if they had continued development.
While there do appear to be problems that impact some people those problems do NOT impact âeveryoneâ at all. In fact I believe they do not impact a large subset of Plex users. On the contrary I believe the problems effect only a small, quite small, subset of Plex users.
Plex has problems BUT, in my experience, most of those problems are interface related in the players not in the actual operations of playing media.
Operationally my Plex system works flawlessly on my Rokus, Shield TV, Raspberry PI and my computers using both PMP and the web app.
The only system I really like the interface on at all is the Roku BUT dislike of the interface does not equal playback problems.
We need to avoid the tendency we all have to assume that âeverybodyâ equals âme.â
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The fact is, none of us can know the extent of the issues or impacts, because most people will either silently put up with problems, or move on to something else, only a few of us will come here to the forums to complain.
I personally think they do impact a large subset of Plex users.
I would have made the same statement a couple of years ago too. I would like to walk in, pick up your Shield remote and hold down the right arrow while on the Recently Added TV list and crash the app to demonstrate.
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Well I just tested and holding the right arrow on Recently added TV simply scrolls all the way to the end. I never use recently added but I thought I would test.
I guess I am just lucky but that has not been my experience. For me my only real complaint about Plex is the interface on all the players.
For me Plex just works.
I have the shield too. While I like it, itâs definitely not as smooth operationally as an htpc or even a roku.
The problem your describing as @Elijah_Baley mentioned is probably player related. When it crashes, can you still use Plex on a browser or any other clientâs?
Might just be my Experience but I think PMS is the best itâs ever been. 3-4 years ago Iâd run into random screwiness on ocassion but I havenât come across any issues in quite some time. The shield client however I canât say the same.
Oh it sure is a client problem. But really as itâs a flagship client itâs shoddiness contributes to the âflakinessâ comment. Interestingly in my testing, the faster the server, the longer you can scroll on the client before the crash.
One more thing, I do not currently have a Plex server running on the Shield. I have a Shield Pro but I found that having the server running produced some instability and at time sluggishness. I reset the Shield and I have had no further problems.
I have other servers that do a better job than the Shieldâs server so I do not need the server on the Shield. I will note that the Shieldâs server itself was pretty good but it made the Shield hard to use for other tasks.
I still do not like the Shieldâs interface and it does have one annoying bug that impacts my use but that bug is just annoying and does not cause a crash.
I hear you. Iâve voiced my wishes to slow down on the crazy device expansion a few times in the past because it was taking resources that could be spent on areas (i think) more appropriate, on devices that didnât need to be there- while spreading themselves thin.
Most of my complaints came before pms v1 when some essential server settings werenât available (like security, bandwidth controls etc). I still feel like drilling down on key clients and making those better is more important than putting Plex on some external WD drive or supporting some woefully under powered nas device but thatâs me.
All that said itâs how they market themselves and spread the word.
So my setup is server based and only use my Nvidia Shileds as players.
But explain why things like remote access keeps turning off. My hardware has not changed. My ISP has not changed. But this keeps happening.
I have reneable several times a day.
And because there is no actual first line support. It makes it hard
The only thing that changes is the server build
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