Server Version#: 1.41.4.9463 Player Version#: 1.108.1.307-dd5b87aa <If providing server logs please do NOT turn on verbose logging, only debug logging should be enabled> Somewhere between player 1.106.0.276 and 1.108.1.307 the Mac player started stuttering during playback. I can’t find older ver…

Sorry, I used the path that’s further down the page and relates to downloads. Here are the proper ones for the player. Plex.zip (438.1 KB) I also checked the file in question: Format : MPEG-4 Format profile : Base Media / Version 2 Codec ID : mp42 (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41) File size : 389 MiB Du…

Also, @cortig can you review your Plex Media Scanner Analysis logs can confirm that the title included is actually playable outside of Plex. It seems to be flooding your logs with errors. The one file I found referenced in there is unrelated (I haven’t tried playing it at all lately). It looks li…

great thanks, the errors were making it difficult to see that issue we want to focus on.

Out of curiosity, I checked on the same Mac using Infuse (with Plex connection) instead of the Mac Plex media player. The same videos played nice and smooth: No stuttering, 9% CPU use only and the fans never kicked in… There is really something quite off with the current Plex Mac player.

EAC3 passthrough doesn’t work either, with Infuse it does… I already have a Plex server and Jellyfin running at the same time. I just hope to get a little more used to Jellyfin so I can completely eliminate Plex from my life.

Unfortunately, I’ve also been experiencing this stuttering since the last update on macOS 26. I’m running Plex on a dedicated server in the OVH data center with sufficient resources: 64 GB RAM, AMD EPIC CPU with enough cores. Unfortunately, the app often stutters on Mac. I’m using a MacBook Pro M1 …

I had similar problems with the same spec macbook pro. I found it helped by turning off hardware acceleration. It seemed to stop my periodical stuttering. Maybe worth a shot unless you have already tried doing that.

Disabling HW decode on the client works for me too, but causes massive CPU usage. Interestingly going to the plex website to watch works fine. The quality of the native client seems to be really degrading. >_<

Any update from the Plex team on this? Is it caused by the MPV issue that was pointed out back in June?

Mac Player stuttering video playback

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guillaumeperes November 30, 2025, 5:23pm 48

Hi, any update about this issue ?

The problem does not seems to occur when using Plex HTPC, neither the Windows one. Only the Mac OS player seems to be affected.

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