I am using Plex HTPC on Windows 11 with Plex Pass. I just noticed that some of the free “Movies & Shows On Plex” section streaming options will not play back.
The pre-roll ads will play, but the actual video will just be colored glitchy lines and no audio plays. The seek bar progresses.
Examples of shows that won’t play: “The Lost Room” & “Snow Piercer”
Example of a show that will play: “After the Dark”
The “Live TV Channels” function did appear to work.
I have not encountered this playback issue on any local / self hosted content.
I did try to toggle a few settings in video options without result.
I´m not sure. I guess the code bits are actually in the FFmpeg code - but I don’t know. Only a plex dev could answer this question, although I think they are not allowed to.
There are changes to our FFmpeg to provide it with callbacks for decryption which is handled in the app itself. We do provide source for our FFmpeg but it has diverged enough from upstream that it may not be helpful for this task.
Additionally a third-party mpv would need to be built to dynamically link against libav* because the app also links against these same libs and it installs its callbacks in that lib. An mpv built against its own FFmpeg statically (or dynamically with its own libs included) will not get the callbacks installed (and unless it’s patched wouldn’t even have the function call to install the callbacks and induce a link error in the app).
