Plex Random Crashes + Odd Behaviour

You might be experiencing this issue. Try refreshing metadata on the item that caused it to happen a couple times, and try again. Something is getting stuck retrieving metadata when starting playback and it causes your CPU fans to achieve escape velocity.

I’ve gotten it a handful of times; movies only, and that follows the other reports in the report. Skip to near the bottom of the below as that is when the problem begins getting consistency.