Looking for plexmediaplayer.conf equivalent on Linux

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I found this article:
25 fps content jerky even after display mode switch
which I believe will solve my problem however it doesn’t say where or what the file is for the setting mentioned on a Linux machine, in my case, OpenSuSE.

Can anyone tell me which file (and where it is) on Linux that is the equivalent of plexmediaplayer.conf on Windows?

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Path is .local/share/plexmediaplayer/plexmediaplayer.conf

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But that doesn’t make any sense. Plex is installed under /usr/lib/, not in my user directory. It runs under the user of plex which is a system user so there is no /home/plex/ directory for it to be under so I don’t see how it’s going to find a .local/ path which is always under a user’s home directory.

EDIT: Hm… the system says the user’s home directory is /var/lib/plexmediaserver so just perhaps /var/lib/plexmediaserver/.local/share/plexmediaplayer/plexmediaplayer.conf will work. I’ll give it a try and let you know.
EDIT2: In /lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service there is the override Environment=PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_HOME=/usr/lib/plexmediaserver so I’m betting the path it will look for will actually be /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/.local/share/plexmediaplayer/plexmediaplayer.conf . Update after a bit of experimentation.

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So I tried putting the option in /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/.local/share/plexmediaplayer/plexmediaplayer.conf and it made no difference. That said, I had to create the file because the .local directory didn’t exist in /usr/lib/plexmediaserver and because I was starting with a blank file I had to deduce what the file would need to be like which I came up with:

{
	"sections": {
		"main": {
			"refreshrate.avoid_25hz_30hz": true
		}
	}
}

which may be just wrong. The truth is there are too many unknowns at the moment for me to likely get this correct.

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I could be wrong, but I think that is a setting for PMP (Plex Media Player), it is not a setting you apply to PMS (Plex Media Server)

You would only be able to apply the setting on the machine that is running PMP, not on the server

So if you are not running PMP on your linux machine, you would not be able to apply that setting there…

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Ah, I’ve only worked on the server and never really thought about a client. This all makes sense now.

With that information I looked at my Roku and there was no setting for this on the Roku Plex app. however I did find a buried setting on Roku about doing video conversions and I turned it off and that seems to have solved it.

The funny thing is that when I streamed my Roku Plex to my TV there was no problem but when I streamed it to my projector then the jerkiness happened. I’m not going to bother to figure out why that was, I’m just happy it’s working.

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You referenced plexmediaplayer.conf. The path I provided was for embedded PMP… The Roku app is not Plex Media Player.

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