Plex ending TV episodes early

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Started having an issue with Plex ending TV episodes early

Plex Media Server (Synology 64 bit) - 1.9.5.4339 - Running on Synology DS916+
Plex App running on Apple TV 4th Gen (up to date)

Consistent behaviour is that all TV shows play fine until there is 2-3 mins left in the episode then we hear a couple of Audio glitches + then Video issues. The issues occur as follows and are fairly consistent:

  • Sound cuts out momentarily
  • Audio then changes Surround sound to Stereo
  • Audio goes back to surround
  • The video begins so buffer momentarily
  • Then it will go to the black screen with a spinning wheel
  • The video begins again for another 20 seconds
  • And finally, Plex ends the episode

As you can imagine, this leads to some interesting and annoying clifhangers while watching TV. If anyone has ideas, I’d really appreciate it.

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It is an ATV thing.

I am on the latest plex beta for ATV and that still stops near the end of tv shows.

Luckily my ATV4 is not my only client so I just use it when there is an update then stop using it when the finishing early still happens.

It appears to me this started with the ATV update (tvos 11.0) not a plex update.

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Actually, it’s a PMS thing. They have released an experimental version that can be downloaded. See this post from @elan: https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1534781/#Comment_1534781 and subsequent posts verifying the fix for ATV.