Thank you for providing an easy way to install the Plex Media Player.
I just re-installed my HTPC: debian 9, PMS (with official deb file) and your PMP flatpak (autostarted on boot by lightdm). The HTPC is connected with HDMI for audio and video to an Onkyo A/V receiver.
I encountered some issues:
no sound (pulseausio was not installed and not started automatically, that was easy to fix)
no hardware acceleration in PMS, vainfo reports VA-API version: 0.39 (libva 1.7.3), Intel i965 driver, and hw support for MPEG2, H264, VC1, I still havenāt found a solution for that but so far my machine is powerful enough to run with software decoding
quite often when I start a video, the remote/keyboard does not do anything (canāt pause, show menuā¦) I have to wait until the end of the video, which brings to the next issue:
quite often when a video stops, nothing happen, the screen stays black, it doesnāt go back to the PMP interface.
Has any of you encountered those problems? Any idea on how to fix that?
Thanks for your help.
@LJD
I have more or less the same as you, i.e. Debian 9, libva 1.7.3, i915
but I can play anything up to 1060p, also without hardware decoding.
both sound and video are OK.
and I donāt use Flatpak
there are 2 things, that I have outside Debian Stretch:
MiniDLNA from Stratch-Backports
VLC from StevePusser
may be this has installed new versions of some files.
@vogelap Did you ever get it working in 18.10? Iām running 2.21 on 18.10. I ran into an issue after I upgraded to 18.10 as well with PMP not opening or doing anything.
I ran it from terminal which gave me an error message ,
./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 āxcbā
in āā.
Available platform plugins are: xcb.
Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Aborted (core dumped)
I fixed it by running sudo apt-get install libqt5x11extras5
Like I said, donāt know if you figured it out already, but wanted to mention it since that fixed it for me running same OS.
Iāll check it and verify that Iāve got all of the updates applied. I had to go to the system logs to get the messages because I was running it from the window manager and didnāt get any terminal output.
was wondering if you might know why when i rightclick the appimage, go to permissions there is no execute box to check? the player runs but i get asked every time.
āWould you like to integrate /media/mc2635599/Downloads - Torrents/Linux Downloads/Monitors - Sound - Video/Plex_Media_Player_2.22.1.917-2a5a2e01_x64 (1).AppImage with your system?ā
This will add it to your applications menu and install icons.
If you donāt do this you can still launch the application by double-clicking on the AppImage."
any help would be greatly appreciated. on another note iād like to have it startup with the system. thanks
Your path (/media/ā¦) suggest you are running it from media card or USB stick. Probalby it is using FAT filesystem that doesnāt support setting execute permissions on files,
then that would have to be a plex issue, cause i have other appimages that i donāt have this issue with. so in a nutshell no itās not because of the ntfs file system unless it is something in pmp preventing it.
Plex Media Player AppImage has an extra script that does the menu integration. This is not a Plex issue for sure. I would suggest try to run the AppImage from a different location (your home directory for example) and see how it behaves. Maybe this will give some clue of what is wrong.
iām truly at a loss. i copied it to the desktop, clicked it, got the same message. decided to click no this time, launched perfectly. looks like it did what it was suppose to do just for some reason it was still asking me if i wanted to create the startpanel shortcut and execute the file even though it was already executed and the starpanel shortcut was already there. now launches perfectly without the message coming up.
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as for the appimage always worked perfectly here. as for fkickering not here that iāve seen. as for the autologin havenāt had that issue, i keep expecting to cause in windows i had the issue.
I thought I should further define the flickering issueā¦
When using a UHD TV (2160), the Plex menu will flicker from screen to screen but not during the replay of videos or TV shows for both Intel and Nvidia on Linux Fedora.
I am another ARM based user. I have the Odroid XU4 running Ubuntu minimal 16.04LTS and would seriously love to have a native install. Apparently from the Hard Kernel forums from what I am seeing is that the suggestion is to instead use the Plex add-on in Kodi (tastes vomit rising in throat). Knapsu is this possible with you package? TIA for your assistance.
