Is there a way to watch Plex through Linux without using a browser?

[mcury]

Hey, hope you are doing fine.

I would like to confirm if there is a better way to watch Plex in Linux, maybe a Plex client? Or use an external player ?

In linux, browsers don’t support hardware acceleration.

[tom80H]

There’s no official player/client on Linux.
As for unofficial stuff…

• There’s a project in the Plex Labs for audio playback -> Plexamp
• Apparently some user(s) have created an Linux version of the Plex Media Player
  Plex Media Player packages for Linux

[anon5074910]

This might also be an option -> https://negativo17.org/plex-media-player-is-back/

Haven’t tried it myself as browser is okay for me but worth a look.

[mcury]

Thanks for the updates, I’ll check those options.
Have a nice day friends

[pshanew]

Here’s another option:

MPV Shim for Plex (Cast to MPV on Linux/Windows)

MPV Shim for Plex MPV Shim is a simple and lightweight Plex client, with support for Windows and Linux. Think of it as an open source Chromecast for Plex. You can cast almost anything from Plex and it will Direct Play. Subtitles are fully supported, and there are tools to manage them like no other Plex client. Source Repository: https://github.com/iwalton3/plex-mpv-shim Getting Started If you are on Windows, simply download the binary. If you are using Linux or OSX, please see the Linux Instal…

Another user (@iwalton3) created this so that you can cast content to a Linux (or Windows) desktop, from another device.

[mcury]

Oh, that’s nice.
MPV supports NVDEC, that works with my nvidia card in linux.
I’ll definitely try that.

[iwalton3]

If you have any questions or issues with Plex MPV Shim, please let me know. I recently added a bunch of new features, such as making it run in a tray icon and improving the playback experience.

For completeness, you can also build Plex Media Player from source using the following commands. It’s definitely more of a pain and I haven’t tested it in a while though.

sudo apt install autoconf automake libtool libharfbuzz-dev libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig1-dev libx11-dev libxrandr-dev libvdpau-dev libva-dev mesa-common-dev libegl1-mesa-dev yasm libasound2-dev libpulse-dev libuchardet-dev zlib1g-dev libfribidi-dev git libgnutls28-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libsdl2-dev cmake wget python g++
mkdir ~/pmp; cd ~/pmp
wget http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.9/5.9.7/qt-opensource-linux-x64-5.9.7.run
chmod +x qt-opensource-linux-x64-5.9.7.run
sudo ./qt-opensource-linux-x64-5.9.7.run
git clone https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv-build.git
cd mpv-build
echo --enable-libmpv-shared > mpv_options
echo --disable-cplayer >> mpv_options
./rebuild -j4
sudo ./install
sudo ldconfig
cd ~/pmp/
git clone git://github.com/plexinc/plex-media-player
cd plex-media-player
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug  -DQTROOT=/opt/Qt5.9.7/5.9.7/gcc_64/ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/ ..
make -j4
sudo make install
rm -rf ~/pmp/