Plex regularly freezes on my TV during playback. It doesn’t happen every time but it’s frequent enough to be annoying. It will randomly freeze during playback and won’t respond to input. I have to force out of the app and reopen it. The new background images on the home screen too (that appear in t…

Your TV is fairly old at this point and likely not anywhere near up to date enough to run Plex smoothly. It looks to me that your TV was released in 2016 making it almost 6 years old at this point. I would invest in something like a Chromecast with Google TV or an Nvidia Shield to go back to an exce…

Its always been very smooth before, the issue only started recently and now during the last update it won’t even open plex. The TV may be 6 years old but that’s not all that old and I don’t see why they should end support for it. I’ve used plex happily for years, this is a real pain in the backside…

It’s absolutely an issue of Samsung not properly supporting their TVs. Read this article I’m posting so you can see what I’m talking about. Save yourself the headache and get a little streaming device and you won’t need to worry about it anymore. On the low end the Chromecast with Google TV is pheno…

Yeah I saw that update about the Tizen Cert change back in September, made sure back then to change my TV client to work from insecure connection on same network as server and all worked smoothly. Its only the last couple weeks it’s been occasionally playing up and freezing. Oh well, looks like I’…

Yeah, it seems that very temporarily kept some of those devices working and things got progressively worse as time went on. I think you’ll be impressed with how good that Google TV Chromecast is. Happy holidays friend!

I look forward to testing it out. Thanks for your help. Happy Holdiays to you too pal!!

[image] FordGuy61: FYI, there was an update earlier today to address hanging during startup. You might delete/re-install to make sure you’ve the latest version. I should have updated post. So I deleted and reinstalled earlier today and after about an hour it started working. It now opens and…

Plex keeps crashing on Samsung TV

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FordGuy61 November 24, 2021, 7:52pm 8

FYI, there was an update earlier today to address hanging during startup. You might delete/re-install to make sure you’ve the latest version.

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