Hey everyone, Hoping someone can help—since Friday night, Plex has completely stopped working on every Samsung TVs in my house (all 2025 models, running Tizen). Here’s what happens: - Friday: Watched for hours, no problem on the main living-room set. - That evening: Bedroom TV—click Plex, screen goe…

It really needs to be raised in Plex support But I can’t seem to find one.

I think this is the support area, hopefully someone will respond shortly. Did you see my post, I’m living on the Isle of Man, and when connecting my network to a UK VPN the Samsung Plex app starts working. I was wondering if you were also in an unusual jurisdiction and if that could be related to …

Just to let you know, as of 17:30 GMT both of my Samsung TVs appear to be working again. No changes were made by me to get this working, so maybe someone pressed some buttons at Plex support.

Keeps crashing on my Samsung Frame TV pro… having luck streaming it to the TV with my android phone though

Thanks for the update. I’ve been using a fire stick as a temporary fix. while I was waiting for some kind of update and if one hadn’t come I was thinking of maybe using jellyfin. Which I didn’t much like the idea of. But you’re totally right. just tried it on the main TV and it’s working, mind you I…

I’m having a similar issue. Black screen but only on certain videos; there doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason as to which videos either that I can discern. Its across a variety of resolutions, file formats, and audio formats. Everything works on the firestick on the upstairs TV though, and on…

I keep my smart hub off. I don’t need samsung poking through my personal files. When you uninstalled plex, did you pull the plug out the wall? So the TV clears properly. leave it unplug for 2 to 3 minutes.Plug it back in then reinstall , it does make a difference

Still happening to many, found a fix?

Plex Black Screen Crash on Samsung TVs After Possible Update – Anyone Else?

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MediaStream_IM February 22, 2026, 11:30pm 2

Same problem here, I reported it on Friday

https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-app-not-loading-on-samsung-tvs/936557/2

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