I have noticed my Plex keeps shutting down daily on my iMac and I ma not sure why. I haven’t changed any settings on my iMac to do so. I have noticed this once I try to play movies and notice my iMac is not online everytime I check. I have to go back to my iMac and turn it back on. so I did some dig…

That’s just showing a bad SSDP lookup where one device on your network is sending information in a different format than expected by Plex. That snippet isn’t showing anything about a crash/shutdown of your server. If you experience a crash… the more interesting part is the end of the log from righ…

Can you provide your Plex server version?

Server Version#: 1.23.1.4602 Player Version#: On Mac OS, PMS is crashing constantly while trying to record. Something to do with Plex transcoder it seems. Plex Transcoder_2021-06-01-001908_mac-mini.crash.zip (1.1 KB)

There’s already a thread for transcoder issues on Mac in the .23 releases. Plex is basically ignoring it at this time. Not sure why

Thank you for letting me know. Restored a previous version from a backup. The problem makes PMS useless, so pretty unprofessional to ignore.

No problem. At this point I’m trying to decide what the successor to my Mac running PMS might be. For me at least I’m basically on stuck the 1.22 branch as every release since has crashed due to the transcoder. In another thread a Plex Staffer essentially said they don’t have a Mac so they can’t tes…

No. Just using backed up version for now.

Mine is doing the same thing not sure why? I have noticed my Plex keeps shutting down daily on my iMac and I ma not sure why. I haven’t changed any settings on my iMac to do so. I have noticed this once I try to play movies and notice my iMac is not online everytime I check. I have to go back to my…

Plex keeps shutting down daily

Plex Media Server

tom80H June 27, 2021, 12:23am 13

From the looks of it, there’s one fix in PMS 1.23.3.4707. Those symptoms/crashes might however be linked to different root causes.

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Plex keeps shutting down daily

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