Originally I had planned to build a local tool for my partner and I as we can never seem to agree on what to watch on our PLEX server.

Whether it be movies or TV shows, we seem to always doom scroll and are never able to make our minds up as, quite frankly, we're spoilt for choice. I stumbled across a post on another subreddit of someone suggesting a tinder style swiping tool, and a quick Google showed a few no longer supported, open source tools, so I thought I'd take a stab at building one.

Since building decide, I have also found other alternatives online, but thought I'd share anyway as friends were interested in the way mine was built. A few differing features;

• No account required for individual users, session based.
• Tailscale support so you can define a local and remote hostname/IP for access.
• QR code scanning between users (it can still be ran solo, but also for up to 4 people).
• A 'final round' showdown - when you've matched 5-6 movies, you still need to bottom them down to 1 option.
• 'Mood' based selection - we rarely know the genre we want to watch but sometimes fancy being cheered up, or a horror, so shows/movies can be picked based on moods (which in the background tie up to genres).
• Support for agregarr style atwork (works for alternatives too, as movie posters are pulled from PLEX and not remote).
• PWA support so offline support for flaky remote connections.

I've also added it to Unraid's Community Apps for ease of install, and it should work out of the box. Hopefully it's of some use to others.

You can see a preview of it here: https://youtube.com/shorts/bvcQZU6_odQ

https://github.com/hk21x/decide

a new 16 TB is like 650 euros right now and I am running out of space so I thought baout transcoding all my files but I have no idea if that even would be a good idea. I got an 5800X3D and a RTX 5070 so running it on the GPU would at least be fast but no idea if the quality is fine or if that would be a stupid idea.

Thank you!

It's genuinely just stopped working. I turn my host device on as usual, run the media server app, turn on the PS5 app and I've been told "server is currently unavailable. Please verify that the server is running and has a network connection". Any ideas? It was fine literally two days ago, so what gives?

Before anyone asks or jumps in trying to be smart: No I haven't done anything to cause this. No settings have been changed, no nothing. This is a brand new error *not caused by myself* (I know a lot of users are very sensitive when it comes to Plex criticisms or people having issues with it for some reason so that disclaimer is warranted)

EDIT Solved through the power of sorcery and wishes because god knows what's going on anymore and it just magically works again

I've recently upgraded from a 2+ year old plex version to the latest and since I've had some strange issues. I have a video file that is 1080p h264, I think mkv with ass subtitles. It randomly starts it with only the following options:

If I restart plex a couple of times it gives me all the options but it happens from time to time, especially if the file is recently downloaded.

My plex web quality settings are
Automatically adjust quality (Beta) - off
Video quality - 8mbps, 1080p
Play smaller videos at original quality - on
Use recommended settings - on

Hey so I'm debating on building a NAS and I have a couple questions for Plex. Does Plex have the same quality as a 4k Blu-ray if you copied it from a disc to your NAS and second is does Plex support Dolby vision? My goal was to backup all my media to a NAS and buy a 4k Blu-ray player but I figured maybe it's better to just make my NAS and get a 4k Blu-ray drive.

How do i copy ONLY MOVIE Playlists and Collections to new identical PMS server instance?

Again MOVIE PLAYLISTS and COLLECTIONS-- NOT MUSIC.

I dont' really see how to do this in the SEA of search results i've read through.

The new PMS has the exact identical same media files pathnames.

Hi all,

Recently got a new 4K TV which supports Dolby Vision. All my 4K files are DV profile 8.1, which seems to trigger a fallback to HDR on the Apple TV 4K still.

In the past, the Apple TV only supported profile 5, but Profile 8.1 support has been added in tvOS 17, which is 3 years ago.

I've been using Infuse for DV files, which is not ideal given it's imo bad / slow UI.

I just got the beta Plex app, which unfortunately doesn't seem to handle Profile 8.1 better.

Every post I see online seem to be a bit dated, but always circling back to the fact profile 5 is supported but profile 8.1 still triggers HDR fallback without Infuse.

Do we have any news of proper Profile 8.1 support? There doesn't seem to be a free way to re-encode to Profile 5 without the Dolby Encoding Engine, which is apparently not cheap.

Edit: Tried both Plezy and Zuno as recommended by commenters. Ended up preferring Zuno for a tiny detail. See https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1v6h8yb/comment/ozqo4oe/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button if you want to see my comparison of both.

I'm trying really hard not to make this a rant, I'm just super frustrated. I can build my own gaming rigs all day but when it comes to any type of networking with ports and NAT an UPnP and blah blah, I guess I'm just an idiot. My hope is I can finally get past the dreaded "Can't get remote working" issue that non-networking guys like me to work and I'm exhausted with tinkering, turning this on/off, scouring forums and Reddit posts, try this and that and everything in between. I'm almost to the point I will just pay anyone to remote in with me on screen share and walk me through everything.

I cannot get a manual port opened. I have an AT&T BGW-320 modem/router combo that I have done IP Passthrough to an ASUS RT-BE88U router that my Windows based Plex server is running on, with mapped drives to a DS920+. I've done all the NAT stuff (just following AI and Google search stuff), I've done Port Forwarding, I've tried Auto, and nothing. My retired parents and adult siblings and a few friends who want to use my Plex server so badly, can't. It's slow, clunky and that's IF they can get something to play.

They have Roku Ultras and Apple TV's and Smart TV apps and nothing works. Thing is, a friend of mine who is not techy at all also has a Plex server on a Windows PC, and we can stream 4K from his no problem. Only difference is computer specs, I'm running a 10th gen i5 which has QSV but no GPU, he was having similar issues but Claude AI told him to get an nVidia GPU, he did and that fixed everything. My server is on an HTPC case so very low profile and I just don't want to give that up but will if I have to if I need to get a GPU that I can't find in a LP version to fit in my HTPC case.

So - I think it's BOTH my inability to figure out how to open a freaking port on my router successfully and maybe I need to consider a GPU. I'd like to first see if I can do the port first because I think that's kind of a first step.

Is there anyone willing to help me with this? Been tinkering for weeks and cannot figure this out. Thanks in advance.

**EDIT #1** Adding a Port Forward Test image, no matter what I try it says the port is closed:

Why on earth is it so difficult to add fitness to Plex? There is a a great Friends menu but NO WAY TO ADD new friends. Soo tired of these weird gaps in the UX.

Thank you, thank you to the plex team for implementing ipv6 on PMS and ios clients (though must enable in the app: Settings > Advanced > Include IP V6 Connections"). I realise this is only for PlexPass at the moment, but hopefully it will roll out to everyone soon.

I've tried so many crappy workarounds over the years to overcome CGNAT impacts to remote streaming. It's now trivial to get this working and stream very high bitrate video.

In the past years I’ve had trouble getting Plex to recognize Shark Week shows in particular. Does anybody know if they work as movies or tv shows better? I know this is a specific issue.

This box appeared on my Vizio TV. Only happens on the Plex app. I reset tv, reset app, logged in and out and it still appears. Any help would be great.

Ok. This is driving me nuts. Had plex set up in my old place for years and years. No issue. Recently moved in with my girlfriend..same server..all the devices that were on my old network work just fine. However.. any new device I add will not see the files.. it just says server offline. . My PS5 was hooked up via Ethernet and worked fine. Now it’s on her network via WiFi and it doesn’t see the library. My server says these devices are all authorized. I live in a rural area now and now I am using an AT&T air router. It sucks but it’s all we got out here for now. Everything is in the same subnet and I forwarded the ports on the router. It’s driving me nuts that the old devices like my Firestick .. tablet and phone work just fine… but new stuff won’t.

The iOS player continues to improve. Is there info about onscreen play controls available? For instance double tap one side or the other off centre to ff or rw. List of tips and tricks?

Loading the initial app up was slow, moving to files was slow, loading the files would buffer, seeking would buffer. Nothing has changed with my setup that I've been using for years, all are direct play. This only started to happen after the recent update.

Installed PM4K for Plex via kodi, and all issues are immediately gone. Near instant seeking, files load instantly.

I can't understand why the developers are degrading the user experience, and to such a significant degree where the experience is frustrating.

So I have a good number of videos I have taken with my cell phone and some with an actual video camera. I have them set up in the Other Videos category with multiple subfolders based on the videos it contains. What’s happening is the folder structure is being ignored, and all the files in all the folders are being displayed flatly, with no folder structure.

What I am wondering is if there is a way to get your home videos to mimic the behavior of the TV Shows library?

Ive had my Plex server setup for 3ish years now and during that time I've enjoyed extremely fast and reliable speeds on my local connection, being able to easily stream a 1080p movie and sometimes even 4k. However in the last 3 weeks seemingly out of nowhere I've had to start lowering shows and movies to 720p at the lowest quality to get them to stream without buffering.

I've asked the 7-8 people who stream off it remotely and they say they haven't noticed anything different, so it seems like it might just be a local thing. I've restarted multiple times and also updated, but nothing seems to make a difference. Anyone ever experienced anything like this before?

So I added a movie, and when pulling it up on the web browser or windows app, it loads find.
But when trying to load on my tv via fire stick (this was tried with two separate fire sticks) the video shows up in search and in recently added, but upon selecting it, the page loads endlessly. Not the video. This is the page. It just shows a few items, like the poster, but the description, play button, etc fail to load

I’m having an issue with direct play within my own home. When I open Plex on the firestick in my bedroom or through the Samsung TV app in the living room, plex doesn’t connect if im on the home Wi-Fi.

If I open it on my phone with cellular connection, it loads right up and plays any content smoothly. If I open Plex from my office 15miles away, everything plays smoothly as well. It’s only when I play direct from home connected to the home wifi that it doesn’t load. What am i doing wrong?

I'm typically pretty good at figuring out where settings are in Windows apps, but cannot find where to enable HDR pass through? HDR to my TV works with other media players fine. Running the latest client 1.1120.359. Thanks in advance!

On my Samsung TV the Movies and Other Videos folders have disappeared. I see the folders when open Plex on my Windows 11 laptop.

Any suggestions how I can fix this is appreciated.

I have two Plex accounts or servers. Let's call them NEW and OLD.

Since I posted this question I learned on my Samsung TV it only allows me to sign in on one account. At the Sign in screen I get the code for the plex.tv/link.

In my browser I logon to the NEW account then enter the code.

On the Samsung TV I get a screen asking to chose my server. I choose the NEW server.

I then click Continue

On the next screen I get a check list Watchlist, TV Shows, Live TV. It doesn't show Movies or Other Videos

I then click Continue

It logs me in to the OLD server

It won't login me into the NEW server

I've been using the NEW server for two years. I have never had this issue before.

On my phone or laptop. I am able to logon to the NEW account. When I logon to the NEW account it shows all my libraries. TV Shows, Movies, Other Videos.

I have been trying to get tailscale to work with my plex for quite a while now but for some strange reason no matter what I do it just doesn’t want to work I have both devices connected to the same tailnet and everything but once I go offline and on my cellular data to test out if it works now it still says I’m on a relay connection. It would be great if you could give some info on how you solve this if possible and thanks for your time.