10 Aug 2023 (47 days!): Plex for Apple TV app 8.21 – 8.23.1 still dung—no improvement whatsoever, however, it appears Plex has made things significantly worse with 8.23.1. (Can’t know if 8.23 has the same new bugs as 8.23.1, since 8.23 crashed 100% immediately upon launch.)
- Can not watch current TV (without disabling current audio engine), nor play HD content, sound fails completely (ie, no sound whatsoever);
- The scrub bar playback position UI become dysfunctional within a few minutes, typically less than three (< 3!).
- (New?) Old Video Player is dysfunctional and can no longer be used reliably.
- (New?) Watching TV (ie, OTA Live TV > Guide > watch show) abruptly fails.
- (New?) TV Shows posters disappear (grid view).
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Plex for Apple TV app 8.22 [Apple TV 4K (2nd generation) 64GB]
PMS for Mac 1.32.5.7349
“Use Old Audio Engine" set to [On] still seems to be a temporary workaround (ie, disabling current audio engine) for dung failures 1 & 2 above.
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It appears the Plex for Apple TV app 8.23.1, yet again, has newly added bugs:
3 ..The Plex for Apple TV app has abruptly exited multiple time while watching an OTA Live TV show, reverting to Live TV > Guide. (Unfortunately, I have not been able to capture Plex for Apple TV app logs before the logs rolled.)
We had not seen this bug in 8.22, nor before—it appears to have been introduced with 8.23.1
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4 .. It appears the Old Video Player is dysfunctional and no longer reliable.
**9 August 2023 5:24pm – 5:30pm PDT [-0700], the Plex for Apple TV app 8.23.1 failed attempting to play a 1080i OTA Live TV show successfully previously recorded, “CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell (2019)” S2023E157, recorded 8 August 2023 6:30pm – 7:00pm PDT [-0700] with Use Old Video Player [On].
Both Plex player for macOS and for iOS successfully play this episode.
We had not seen this bug in 8.22, nor before—it appears to have been introduced with 8.23.1
Playback was successful after setting Use Old Video Player to [Off].
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5 ..OTA TV Show posters have been buggy for many PMS versions. Now, among the fraction that have been displayed, TV Shows (grid view) posters disappear upon playback exit. (Since OTA TV Show posters have been very, very problematic for many PMS versions (PMS 1.32.1.6999 or earlier), I can’t be sure that this is a new bug.)
Before playback:
Immediately after playback exit:
After exiting TV Shows to Live TV, then back to TV Shows:
