1080i broadcasts may be problematic generally, again.
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My wife just yelled at me, “That piece of [dung] [Plex] isn’t working again!!!”
The sound and playback position UI just failed shortly after she began watching an OTA Live TV PBS (which broadcasts 1080i) that was being recorded. She was not able to watch the show despite gymnastics of exiting and re-starting playback.
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(Yesterday, I did double-check to make sure that Auto Adjust Quality is set to [OFF ].)
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Ironically, this appears have similar characteristics to the Plex for Apple TV app PoS version 8.6 that effectively made Plex useless for an entire month last year, 22 July 2022 – 22 August 2022.
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I wonder if the 8.6 catastrophic bugs was(were) ever fixed. (Posting reference numbers (eg, “#14360”) in Plex release notes isn’t particularly helpful if users don’t have access to such (presumably) bug listings or database.) Plex was worse than useless for 32 days, until a saintly user, Alsfeld (thank you very much again), posted a workaround of disabling what I presume was a default setting, Auto Adjust Quality.
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What I painfully experienced for an entire month last year: Plex Useless; Apple TV 8.6 & 8.7 Player FUBAR—Can't Play TV; iOS Player 8.5 Can't Play Shows Being Recorded:
