Server Version#: latest, but doesn’t matter
Player Version#: just-downloaded Mac Plex.app from store
Just double-clicking it in Applications gets you a black window with a Plex logo that disappears, and then … just a black window…
Running it from the console shows why:
/Applications/Plex.app] simon% ./Contents/MacOS/Plex
Rescanning for external libs: '/Volumes/raid/simon/Library/Application\ Support/Plex/Plex\ Media\ Server/Codecs/dd95667-2434-darwin-x86_64/'
Loading external lib /Volumes/raid/simon/Library/Application Support/Plex/Plex Media Server/Codecs/dd95667-2434-darwin-x86_64/libaac_decoder.dylib
Loading external lib /Volumes/raid/simon/Library/Application Support/Plex/Plex Media Server/Codecs/dd95667-2434-darwin-x86_64/libh264_decoder.dylib
[cplayer] mpv 0.28.0-UNKNOWN Copyright © 2000-2018 mpv/MPlayer/mplayer2 projects
[cplayer] built on Tue Jul 23 03:39:08 PDT 2019
[cplayer] ffmpeg library versions:
[cplayer] libavutil 56.7.101
[cplayer] libavcodec 58.12.102
[cplayer] libavformat 58.9.100
[cplayer] libswscale 5.0.101
[cplayer] libavfilter 7.12.100
[cplayer] libswresample 3.0.101
[cplayer] ffmpeg version: 1.4-dd9566721d-0
[cplayer]
[cplayer] Configuration: ./waf configure --enable-libmpv-shared --disable-cplayer --disable-apple-remote --disable-macos-touchbar --disable-cocoa --enable-lgpl
[cplayer] List of enabled features: asm atomics bsd-fstatfs build-date coreaudio cplugins cuda-hwaccel debug-build drmprime encoding fchmod ffmpeg gl glob glob-posix gnuc iconv lgpl libass libass-osd libav-any libavcodec libdl libm libmpv-shared optimize osx-thread-name plain-gl posix posix-or-mingw posix-spawn posix-spawn-native pthreads stdatomic zlib
[cplayer] Built with NDEBUG.
AVDCreateGPUAccelerator: Error loading GPU renderer
[libmpv_render] GL_VERSION='2.1 ATI-2.8.38'
[libmpv_render] Detected desktop OpenGL 2.1.
[libmpv_render] GL_VENDOR='ATI Technologies Inc.'
[libmpv_render] GL_RENDERER='AMD Radeon HD - FirePro D700 OpenGL Engine'
[libmpv_render] GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION='1.20'
[libmpv_render] Loaded extension GL_ARB_framebuffer_object.
[libmpv_render] Loaded extension GL_ARB_texture_rg.
[libmpv_render] Loaded extension GL_ARB_texture_float.
[libmpv_render] Loaded extension GL_ARB_sync.
[libmpv_render] Loaded extension GL_APPLE_rgb_422.
[libmpv_render] GL_*_swap_control extension missing.
[libmpv_render] Testing FBO format rgba16
[libmpv_render] Using FBO format rgba16.
[libmpv_render] Disabling HDR peak computation (no compute shaders).
[libmpv_render] No advanced processing required. Enabling dumb mode.
[libmpv_render] Loading hwdec driver 'cuda-nvdec'
[libmpv_render/cuda-nvdec] Failed to load CUDA symbols
[libmpv_render] Loading failed.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.230439:ERROR:gl_context_cgl.cc(136)] Error creating context.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.230528:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(262)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Failed to create shared context for virtualization.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.232619:ERROR:gl_context_cgl.cc(136)] Error creating context.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.232649:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(262)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Failed to create shared context for virtualization.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.239150:ERROR:gl_context_cgl.cc(136)] Error creating context.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.239176:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(262)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Failed to create shared context for virtualization.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.240556:ERROR:gl_context_cgl.cc(136)] Error creating context.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.240581:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(262)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Failed to create shared context for virtualization.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.349487:ERROR:gl_context_cgl.cc(136)] Error creating context.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.349520:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(262)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Failed to create shared context for virtualization.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.351335:ERROR:gl_context_cgl.cc(136)] Error creating context.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.351364:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(262)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Failed to create shared context for virtualization.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.352939:ERROR:gl_context_cgl.cc(136)] Error creating context.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.352967:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(262)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Failed to create shared context for virtualization.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.354010:ERROR:gl_context_cgl.cc(136)] Error creating context.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.354034:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(262)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Failed to create shared context for virtualization.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.355011:ERROR:gl_context_cgl.cc(136)] Error creating context.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.355034:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(262)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Failed to create shared context for virtualization.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.355967:ERROR:gl_context_cgl.cc(136)] Error creating context.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.355990:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(262)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Failed to create shared context for virtualization.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.813330:ERROR:gl_context_cgl.cc(136)] Error creating context.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.813363:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(304)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Failed to create context.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.814212:ERROR:gl_context_cgl.cc(136)] Error creating context.
[72913:52995:0815/122746.814237:ERROR:gles2_command_buffer_stub.cc(304)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Failed to create context.
This is a Mac Pro (the old type) running Mojave 10.4.4 - everything else seems to be fine with graphical output … To add insult to injury, the “old” Plex Media Player application runs just fine…
