@Knapsu said:
Hey @mdesdin and @zpaolo11x. I’ve made some testing regarding issues you have mentioned with screensaver and monitor sleep mode . It looks like this is not a problem with AppImage package but with Plex Media Player itself.
Thank you for your reply, I just disabled Ubuntu screensaver and rely on PMP screensaver, I use this PC only as a Plex server and client so no big issue not having the OS screensaver
Works very well, thank you!
Just launched tv2 on Ubuntu 16.04. Works flawlessly! I’ve even got Linux booting directly to it. Loving the new interface!!!
Thanks!
I am running the AppImage built from the tv2 branch. It looks like the old PMP.
Plex_Media_Player_20170910_6ce79a63_tv2_x86-64.AppImage
Nothing like what I see here
https://www.plex.tv/blog/new-hope-for-meda-browsing/
Have issue with video suddenly shutting off. Switched back to manually compiled PMP 1.
Will most likely look into compiling PMP 2.
Knapsu… you are a frickin’ legend, thanks a bunch! I’ve been waiting for a Linux version of PMP to replace my old flaky PHT… your AppImage PMP is the easiest thing I’ve ever done in Linux, 100% functional right out of the box.
@Knapsu Thank you for building the tv2 package. Seems to work okay!
Update from my previous comment: I have found the new design of PMP while it is running in full screen with the tv2 branch.
AppImage was really easy to use.
Not much activity on the tv2 branch. Last was 10 months ago, while dist-ninja-tv2 has some recent commits.
Running the tv2 built AppImage under windowed mode, there is no settings for auto-login under Web>General. I have asked a question about it, but since it is an unofficial build not much help there.
Hey @DJViking. The packaging format has almost nothing to do with the app functionality or UI changes. I wish to help but I only take care of the packaging and don’t know the details of what is being done by Plex Team in each development branch. They should have answered your question.
Plex Media Player v1.3.9.714-a326d45f is available for download from https://knapsu.eu/plex/.
Plex Media Player v2.1.1.703-79cdfa5c is available for download from https://knapsu.eu/plex/.
PMP version 2.x has the new UI when we switch to full screen.
Anyone way to modify this to get it to start in fullscreen?
Hey @Mashedtaders, Plex Media Player will remember if you used fullscreen mode or windowed mode. If you close PMP when in full screen and then launch it again, it will go into full screen on its own.
You can also force full screen mode by adding --fullscreen attribute when running the binary. Add it to your Plex Media Player desktop menu entry if you need it.
Plex Media Player v1.3.10.720-dfcd90a6 is available for download from https://knapsu.eu/plex/.
Hi!
I’m on Lubuntu 17.04 and have tried both the versions listed on your page, the problem I have is low quality, the video stutters a lot. At times it is smooth and at times it stutters. Do you know what could be the reason for this? Any other information I can provide?
The player is running on the same computer as the plex media server and the media files. There should be no transcoding going on right?
PMP works fine from a windows computer connected to the same plex server.
Plex server version is 1.9.4.4325
Having some trouble with HiDPI settings (haven’t really experimented, but I think it is combining xrandr and xft dpi settings for some reason) - other than that, I am running smoothly on void linux.
Edit: Did a few settings changes regarding xft and xrandr, neither seem to affect the scale of the application. Not sure what would cause the scaling to be somewhere near 400% of what it should be.
Hey @ldmvcd , my first thought is that the move is being transcoded. It depends on the actual video container format, if you have direct streaming enabled and if you stream subtitles with the movies.
I think the best would be if you could launch system process monitor and see if there are any high CPU usage or processes with convert or transcode words to be sure if this is not the reason.
Hi @fortiter. I guess Void Linux installation on your computer has some missing configuration files for Qt library, they are in some uncommon location or simply the software you use is not reporting the settings correctly to the Qt library. This is just a quick guess though.
As a workaround I suggest to run the AppImage with environment variable QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1.0 to force the scale factor. Try replacing 1.0 with some other value to see what suits you best. Hope this helps.
Thanks for the app image. Some great work there and works great on the 17.10 Ubuntu final beta.
I see that others had the issue for the player not disabling the screen saver function. I also see that someone listed a fix (i dont know what it is). Since then you have put out a few releases but dont mention it or it being worked on/fixed. I unfortunately have this bug. Any assistance for what i should be trying to fix it? Cheers.
