I too had to reinstall manually but then I noticed my videos were playing with a green overlay and bar on the bottom. I also disabled hardware decoding and that seemed to fix it. I’m wondering if I had it enabled before and it worked or if I previously had it off and this version defaults to having it on causing my issue?
So I just tested the same video files with Plex for Windows vs VLC. When played with PFW with hardware decoding enabled, I get the green issue. When played in VLC it handles it both with and without hardware decoding without issue (I checked CPU usage and it actually is using GPU in VLC). Is VLC just better at this than the Plex player?
No, Plex for Windows is based on MPV wich is way better than VLC, but it is either too old or not well implemented to PMP so you have to disable hardware decoding for it to work correctly.
Just uninstalled, deleted Plex folder from Program Files, restarted and reinstalled with the same crash. I can’t even get into the settings to make any changes since it crashes as soon as it starts loading my library.
In your case the GPU on the server was creating the green tint, switching off HW allowed the CPU to do the decode/encode. Certain versions of Intel iGPU’s had this driver problem and it might be possible to work around.
