This works really great for me on my Ubuntu, but all versions that has come after Plex_Media_Player_2.13.0.877-6e1ea2cb_x64.AppImage i am unable to get Passthrough audio.
In 2.13 when going to Audio i select “HDA Nvidia, HDMI 1/HDMI Audio Output” but if running a newer version it always says “Disconnected device: alsa/hdmi:CARD…”, is there a way to get around that?
Edit: Ahh, see now that only PulseAudio is supported since July 2018
@Knapsu Thank you Sir! Works great!
after downloading and checking the very latest version, I was impressed again.
and there also came a question: how about remote control ??
Hi
I just installed this onto ubuntu 16.04 . Is there any place I can find logs to try and debug a problem? When I try to run it something briefly flashes onto the screen but is gone to fast to see what it is. It placed a icon in the menu fine. But nothing seems to happen when clicked on.
Ok think I may have answered my own question. I tried running the appimage from a terminal and it tells me QT xcb plugin is missing.
Downloaded and installed a older version of the plex media player package and it now loads fine and displays videos.
@MicW I’m getting the same error trying 2.20 on a new installation of ubuntu 18.10. What version did you downgrade to to make it work? I tried 2.18 and got a different error. Hoping I can get this figured out or does anybody know to fix?
./Plex_Media_Player_2.20.0.909-46413dd1_x64.AppImage
libva info: VA-API version 0.39.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin “xcb”
in “”.
Available platform plugins are: xcb.
Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Aborted (core dumped)
SOLUTION: doing a google search I found this:
sudo apt-get install libqt5x11extras5 fixed it
@pbenzschawel Hi , yes 2.20 was the problem one for me in 16.04 2.18 worked also 1.3 and the daily build 20181017 also worked without issues. I’ll give your fix a try. Though I’m playing with compiling my own version as there is a LIRC remote control bug in these versions that has a fix on the net that I’m keen to implement.
Is there a way you can make the UI scale good with Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon on 4K screens. Everything is too small and i have already scaled to max in Linux Mint Settings.
Can you add support for 4K because screen is flickering when browsing in 4K resolution and it is also laggy. Fix would be highly appreciate it. I’m using latest PMP.
Does the flickering go away on lower resolutions?
Finally after weeks of my live TV dropping users out because of a Chrome and Firefox bug, I installed the latest beta yesterday on my laptop to test and viola! No issues, so installed it on the server to as it allows direct play of the TV instead of having to hardware encode.
Keep up the great work, will be installing it on 2 more Laptops later for 2 remote users that use my server who found the issue with chrome and Firefox with the live TV before I did!
Dave
When i right click on PMP it does not show “edit application”. Care to explain how you did it in details? I’m running Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon and latest PMP.
When running the latest PMP AppImage (2.20 or the latest daily) on Ubuntu 18.04 on a NUC7CJYH, 1080P runs fine. However 2.7K or higher (4K) runs choppy. On the CLI I found it errors with (and CPU toggles 100% in htop):
libva info: Init function not found __vaDriverInit_0_39.
It feels like it is missing HW accelleration as VLC runs 4K fine (htop at 30-60% CPU). At first it missed the xcb, which I fixed (it didn’t run at all then). Any way to troubleshoot this missing HW accelleration?
this is strange 
on my device with Debian 9, I run PlexMediaServer.
when I use the Plex app of my Samsung TV, the processor goes to it’s maximum.
with this Plex Media Player, the processor keeps it well below 50%.
this difference must be caused by ths use of HW decoding.
@NOONE3 Right Click the appimage file and go to properties then go to permissions, there should be a box that says open as executable towards the bottom. Once clicked close the window and you should be able to double click and launch the installation.
Hope this helps…
Dave
I have the PMS and PMP both on Ubuntu 18.04. The movie is run with Direct Play. VLC can run it without issues on 30% with both CPU’s. However PMP runs it with 100% CPU on both CPU’s. I think it doesn’t do HW accelleration.
Due to VLC running I know the drivers/firmware of the GPU work fine with the OS and it can offload/HW accellerate. However it feels like the PMP AppImage is missing connectivity (no init found) to the GPU (onboard Intel).
@FoUStep
I really would like to know, how you got VLC working 
I have tested it on my Debian machine, but the GUI does not open.
I don’t want it to run from the command line, but from the main screen.
your help will be appreciated.
I did not change anything but the minimal install. Just downloaded it from videolan.org. But that does not solve my problem for Plex Media Player (you know, the forum where we are). 
The latest newsletter from Plex mentioned Linux and Snap available in Cannonical Store.
They could have mentioned Knapsu AppImage also.
AppImage is much better than Snap, specially for distributions that are not Debian based. For me running a RPM based distribution like OpenSUSE I have no interest in using Snap. Even Flatpack in my opinion is better than Snap.
Also the Cannonical Store Snap only had the 1.13.10 version of Plex.
