Firstly, thanks for the app. Only just downloaded and used a little, but so far, very impressive. I’ve installed the Flatpak. I’m running Mint 19.3
That said, I have a query.
When I sign into my Plex account in my browser, or via my Android app, one of the Home menu options is “Movies & TV : On Plex”. I notice that it is not visible when I use your app to access my Plex account/content.
I assume there is some reason for its absence. I’d appreciate knowing why.
Alternately, if I should/could be seeing that content, please let me know how to access it.
I don’t see “Movies & TV: On Plex” when using PMP on Windows, which is an officially supported platform for PMP. This suggests that it is (at least currently) a limitation of PMP, as opposed to Knapsu’s build of PMP for Linux…
As far as I can tell DTS/Dolby pass-through still not supported. I have it setup with pass-through to an AVR and there seems to be no capability. Very disappointing - hope this happens soon or I’ll have to switch back to windows.
The Android app is not PMP. It has its own separate codebase.
Knapsu is merely packaging source code provided by Plex—source code that (to my knowledge) is no longer maintained. Pass-through audio might be implemented on Windows using an API that doesn’t translate to Linux, maybe. (I’ve not dug around the code.)
My two cents: if you need audio pass-through, bite the bullet and switch back to Windows now. Don’t wait for Linux support, because (and to stress: this is only my opinion) it’s unlikely to happen.
I’m using Plex Media Player on Manjaro and everything works so far. However I’m always connected to my server as remote even though the server is in the same Network. Is there a solution for this problem?
Ok, my bad, it does pass through 5.1. Problem was with Ubuntu.
However, is it possible somehow to use mpv.conf for subtitle settings etc.? It seems the player now ignores my subtitle changes if casting from the android app.
I’ve been using an I3 4th or early 5th gen Nuc for quite some time as a dedicated PMP. It’s been so long I can only remember it uses DDR3 memory. It is setup for direct play, direct stream, hardware decoding, display mode switching and pass-through of all audio tracks as my receiver decodes all of these. If your TV/Entertainment system is not compatible with any of these factors then you are loading up your server especially if it needs to re-sample the 4K content or any larger/more detailed audio tracks like Atmos & DTS-X and any native 7.1.
I like the Nuc’s because they have a built-in IR receiver and I have developed fine tuned coding based on the WMC original codes. These are being used with several different professional universal remote control systems including, but not limited to URC CCP, MX-HomePro, & Total Control, All of RTI’s line, Control 4 and so on. The coding gives me chapter skipping forwards and back as well as the FFW & RW at different speeds. Aspect view changing, audio & subtitle track choosing etc.
4K HDR content streams just fine on the same network. My 4K files are all H265 streams taken straight from their 4K UHD Blurays without any additional compression added to the files. I only strip out foreign language audio and subtitle tracks. Additionally I have converted most of my full BD collection to H265 including all the extras. I do not use crazy algorithms to get the smallest possible file size possible etc. I use a simple process that is non-destructive to the original quality of the BD file it simply cuts the video stream size by 50% while keeping the full original quality of the audio tracks. (Dolby Atmos, DTS-X, DTS-HD 7.1, TrueHD 7.1, ETC.)
I must admit you have me curious. You mention a 4th or 5th generation NUC and 4K HDR. These NUCs only have HDMI 1.4 yet HDMI 2.0 is required for HDR so I’m wondering about your setup here. Are you tone-mapping to SDR and playing that? Are you using Display Port (again requires DP 1.4 and these NUCs have 1.2)? Also with the 4K display, HDMI 1.4 (and DP 1.2) maxes out at 30fps at this resolution. Are you using this?
This PMP Linux port is great! We’re running the latest daily build AppImage right now on our living room system on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (5.3.0-28). To be honest, we mostly use the web player on Chrome, because of the extra features (lyrics, Plex streaming movies, playlist & recommended tabs, more scalable gui size on screen, etc.). But when it come to watching OTA TV or movies, the PMP transports are much faster and more reliable and the video quality seems better.
I did notice something that’s frustrating, especially because we have a hearing impaired person in the home (and have subtitle mode = always enabled). The latest Windows PMP doesn’t show captions for TV Shows (dvr recordings) at all! On PMP for Linux, it will display the captions, but only after turning them off and on again for each show from the Setting control. Any idea what’s up with that? Web, Android mobile, and iOS are fine in this regard.
Thanks again for this great PMP. I can’t believe Plex doesn’t have Linux PMP in it’s long list of players. I have a feeling lots of people are making the leap from Windows to Linux, so having this port is most useful. I love the idea of the web player, but apparently ones at the mercy of the browser environments quirks and limitation.
Thanks for your work on this! I just downloaded it because running the web interface in Firefox was getting to be painful as heck (random hangs and crashes). Is there something I can subscribe to that will tell me when there are updates, or will the app itself tell me like the the app does on Windows?
Would you consider re-trying re-enabling Intel’s LibVA/VA-API again? I’ve got the VDPAU/libVA shim installed, and a libva that’s got IceLake support, but my CPU usage is pretty high on 4K videos.
Alternatively, how hard is it to compile these flatpaks myself, so I could try turning it on again?
I download it on Ubuntu 19.10 and everything works fine, except i can use “Download” function to download content from a shared library on my computer. I test on windows and windows app let me do that, so its not a serve problem.
PMP can’t download/sync on any platform. The current Windows app is no longer PMP, but a new project—which is closed source AFAIK, and can’t be unofficially built for Linux like has been done for PMP here.
