I’m in that weird place where none of what Linus is upset about is anything I use. What I do with PLEX (host my media and stream it to my family) works fine. I don’t download, I couldn’t care less about intro detection (that’s what fast forward is for), Hercules plays fine on my Apple TV. I do hope PLEX addresses these issues but I would rather get slideshow and audio books but that’s just me.
I really would rather not switch due to the hassle of starting from scratch, but Plex has seriously been letting me down lately. What’s with all the feature creep? What’s with all these glaring bugs going unfixed for so long?
I haven’t cared about about a single new feature since intro detection, and yet highly rated feature requests have been on this forum for YEARS and get no acknowledgment from staff. It seems like Plex’s core functionality as a media server is their lowest priority. If Plex’s “future vision” is to set itself up as a gaming/streaming service to the detriment of local media, then I’m simply no longer interested.
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Is the problem with downloads only on Android? I just attempted to download a (transcoded) movie to my iOS device… saw the (linux) server cpu go brrrr… the download completed.
Then I disconnected from wifi and killed the app… restarted it and the offline video was available for me to watch.
However, I couldn’t figure out what codec was used in the offline/downloaded vid.
Im pretty sure Linus said GPU encoding, but idk and im too lazy to watch back the vid, but hey, maybe cpu encoding works fine
The big issue with downloading is that it’s a feature you pay for as apart of Plex Pass, a feature advertised, which flat out does not work… Intro skip works fine for 90% of use cases, but is something that could be improved upon. Rather minor nitpick there, but valid!
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Glad Linus has made a large audience aware of Plex’s lack of support for core features. I’ve been using Plex for years and it’s not what I want it to be.
Downloading has been broken for almosr a year on Android devices, there’s still no playback speed feature that has a really high number of votes on the forums with no comments from Plex staff, lack of transcoding support for AMD GPUs (officially) and no support for Intel dGPUs (Arc). Jellyfin on the other hand has these, with downloads eventually to come as mentioned in the video.
I run Plex and Jellyfin servers side by side and sync them with Trakt.tv, and in the last month I’ve used Jellyfin only.
Intro picking works fine most of the time yeah but what bothers me there is Plex is selling my cpu cycles and my electricity to users.
What if I don’t enable intro skipping server side? Plex does not care, still selling it.
How this is not a server side Plex pass feature is beyond me.
Would you mind elaborating on what you mean by Plex selling your cpu cycles and electricity to users? Not exactly following.
We need people like him to even get ■■■■ fixed, its sad. @elan
I agree, but i do love live tv and dvr added, but yeah theirs even some bugs with that.
I’m not saying it isn’t valid. I still remember that “slideshow” used to actually be on their website as a function of photo hosting. Eventually, I guess when it became common knowledge to even PLEX that it never worked, they took the big step of removing that word off the website. That will fix it.
All I’m saying is the stuff they say works that doesn’t isn’t a big impact to me.
Yeah, but theirs million others who have different needs and have different issues.
I don’t understand this comment, what is Plex doing?
lol, ngl same.
I think he’s saying that some of the features like Intro Skip put an unnecessary/uncontrolable strain on his server. If another user that has a Plex pass watches things on his server, they can use those features outside of his control.
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Thank you for translating.
AFAIK, intro skip markers is 100% enabled by the server owner. If you invite another user to see your content, they cannot force your server to perform intro skip. This theoretical other user can access available intro skip markers if your server made them, but shouldn’t be able to force it to run.
Credit skip, though, I can see a possible point. In the future, Plex plans to allow you to upload intro/outro skip markers to the cloud (Plex themselves) so your server won’t have to perform the operation again for the same file. And in theory, if someone else has the exact same file (same signature), then they immediately “download” the skip markers from Plex so they don’t have to perform it themselves. This could possibly be that your server did calculations for someone else, but again, it was YOUR choice to generate the intro/outro markers for your content.
No, plex is selling a Plex Pass feature they have no control over if its available.
If the server owner does not enable it, it’s not available for the user yet plex advertises it to the user.
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Should be advertized as a feature local to their server with a possibility of it extending past that to shared servers depending. It should be laid out plain as day otherwise Plex has some legal issues to sort out.
I love the intros to my shows.
This should be a server side paid feature.
