@Knapsu said:
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.
Thanks for your reply? The PMP app on windows 10 over the wifi on local network works smoothly, while the builds off your page, even though on local machine, stutter. Do you still think it might be transcoding/burning subtitles?
I will get back to you with answers to your questions
@Knapsu said:
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 again!
Iām running on lubuntu. A ps aux | grep transcode and ps aux | grep convert throw up nothing. Am I doing this right?
Under Settings-Server-Languages, Subtitle Mode is set on Manually Selected and Prefer subtitles in is None
@ldmvcd , you are running Plex Media Server and Plex Media Player on the same machine. Look exactly which process is utilizing the processor as it might be PMS. PMP has two main processes: plexmediaplayer and pmphelper. AppImage itself will also create a separate process. Check them.
@joshndroid, the issue with screensaver is PMP bug which only Plex Team can fix. I can do a workaround in the AppImage itself. Because I see few of you clearly are annoyed with this issue so I will try to add it to the AppImage next week (currently I am working on some other project).
Thank you @Knapsu. I, like others, will appreciate it.
For those that are also using the app image within gnome based distro (like Ubuntu 17.10) and wishing to get the appimage to eventually get to your application/favourites of gnome ill put this little list of things i did to get it working. Note - There are a couple of decisions i made to make it easier to update with new app images later and not need to change files/paths (like naming the app image a simple name).
Find a plex icon .png file you like
rename the appimage file to -> plex-media-player.AppImage
create an empty file named - > plex-media-player.desktop
Paste these contents into the file and save it. Note 1 - you will need to change your paths to your AppImage and icon location. Note 2 - If the icon doesnāt show you can right click and open the .desktop and change the icon manually in there (i had an issue with a png i used).
#!/usr/bin/env
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Plex Media Player
GenericName=Plex
Comment=Plex Media Player
Categories=Media;Video;
Exec=/home/josh/Documents/plex-media-player.AppImage
Icon=/home/josh/Pictures/plex-media-server.png
make the .desktop executable
5a - Via right clicking the .desktop and going to permissions and ticking the excutable checkbox
OR
5b - via running in terminal within location of the .desktop -> sudo chmod +x plex-media-player.desktop
Place the plex-media-player.desktop file within ~/.local/share/applications/
Profit???
Once a new AppImage is released you can just delete the old one and rename the new one and the launcher link will still work.
The formatting section relating to the code of the last comment didnāt work correctly and i cant edit my previous comment, weird so here is the example contents of the .desktop again, apologies
#!/usr/bin/env
#
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Plex Media Player
GenericName=Plex
Comment=Plex Media Player
Categories=Media;Video;
Exec=/home/josh/Documents/plex-media-player.AppImage
Icon=/home/josh/Pictures/plex-media-server.png
Hey @joshndroid . I was not aware that the menu entry is missing as the AppImage itself should create it. Run some tests and it does not cerate one. Bug. After looking into the build scripts Iāve found out that one of the tools used for building the AppImage breaks the desktop integration. Next release will have it fixed so no need for manually created .desktop file.
@Knapsu said:
Hey @joshndroid . I was not aware that the menu entry is missing as the AppImage itself should create it. Run some tests and it does not cerate one. Bug. After looking into the build scripts Iāve found out that one of the tools used for building the AppImage breaks the desktop integration. Next release will have it fixed so no need for manually created .desktop file.
Ah. This and another program yesterday had been my first foray into AppImages so i under the impression that it was part of how they work. Thanks for checking and look forward to seeing the fix in next build
Desktop integration fixed. Patch provided upstream to the AppImage project.
Plex Media Player daily builds have this fix applied starting from 20171017_c3c92d72.
@Knapsu said:
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 that
Using QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1.8 worked perfectly for me on my QHD monitor running 2.1.1
If you run Plex_Media_Player.AppImage --help from command line you will get a list of useful options:
Options:
-h, --help Displays this help.
-v, --version Displays version information.
-l, --licenses Show license information
-a, --from-auto-update When invoked from auto-update
--desktop Start in desktop mode
--tv Start in TV mode
--auto-layout Use auto-layout mode
--windowed Start in windowed mode
--fullscreen Start in fullscreen
--no-updates Disable auto-updating
--terminal Log to terminal
--scale-factor <scale> Set to a integer or default auto which controls the
scale (DPI) of the desktop interface.
Please note the --fullscreen, --tv and --scale-factor options.
The use of --scale-factor worked same as it did with QT_SCALE_FACTOR
Noticed that using --tv without --fullscreen would allow running the new interface in windowed mode.
Ever since I used --tv without --fullscreen, now it will not enter into fullscreen when clicking āEnter TV Full Screenā.
Using --fullscreen will start in fullscreen, but after clicking āExit Full Screenā, that button do not change, and will not work to enter full screen again.
Wonder if these are bugs, I just wrong usage.
Under Settings, setting Layout back to Auto fixed the fullscreen issue.
Running with --scale-factor worked like a charm. I couldnāt get the environment variable to workā¦ possibly since Iām using Fish, possibly because of the way I am setting it in Fish, but I didnāt try too long since the run flag worked.
Hey @mdesdin and @joshndroid
Iāve enabled X11/XDG screensaver management (-DLINUX_X11POWER=on compilation variable). This should help resolve your screensaver issues.
Yesterdays daily build 20171018_4d676a53 has this change applied. You can grab it from https://knapsu.eu/plex/
Iāve tested it on my KDE Plasma environment but it doesnāt seem to do any difference. Maybe it will work for you.
This is all I could do.
I redrawed a vector icon (SVG) to replace your blurry icon from linux big (docks) and small launchers. If you like it, please include it into your pkgs.
@Knapsu said:
Hey @joshndroid . I was not aware that the menu entry is missing as the AppImage itself should create it. Run some tests and it does not cerate one. Bug. After looking into the build scripts Iāve found out that one of the tools used for building the AppImage breaks the desktop integration. Next release will have it fixed so no need for manually created .desktop file.
@Knapsu said:
Hey @mdesdin and @joshndroid
Iāve enabled X11/XDG screensaver management (-DLINUX_X11POWER=on compilation variable). This should help resolve your screensaver issues.
Yesterdays daily build 20171018_4d676a53 has this change applied. You can grab it from Plex Media Player for Linux | knapsu.eu
Iāve tested it on my KDE Plasma environment but it doesnāt seem to do any difference. Maybe it will work for you.
This is all I could do.
Mate love your work. Sorry i dināt see these earlier (no tapatalk integration means i have to physically check this forum). I will give the latest build a crack and see what i get.
Works like a charm both on my desktop running Ubuntu 16.04 et laptop running Ubuntu 17.04 <3