hi, after many hours of troobleshooting, i discovered that certains h265 media makes the xbox plex app stuck. The problems appears if h265 video track have extradata declared but empty. I don’t have any logs to share because when the player hangs, the logs are stuck too This problem appears only …

Plex xbox app hangs and black screen : sample file provided

raiiyzen77 May 7, 2025, 4:44am 2

@BigWheel can you send the sample file to the dev team pls ?
cheers

Dolby Vision is very broken

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