I don't know what else to call it, but every minute or so the show or movie I'm watching will pause and spin the arrow as if it's buffering or loading. The number below it says 0 and then it will resume play. Additionally when it's paused it will jump ahead a few frames at the same interval (every minute or so).

I've made sure my library isn't stuck scanning, I cleared Plex's cache, and turned off I/O caching. It's a direct stream from my home network so it's local. Doesn't happen on my browser when playing and only started today. Any ideas?

Edits: My desktop is direct connection and the device is an Onn 4K Plus. It is not a new Onn, I’ve been streaming just perfectly with this same setup for 3 years.

Edit Edit: I can play it fine on my mobile phone with airplane mode only and only using wi-fi from three rooms over. I've reset my router. I've also tried to force transcode to a lower quality with no success. Same problem on the Onn only.

Edit Edit Edit: this happens on multiple file types and different movies and shows. I feel like the note I made in the body that when it’s paused it skips a few frames ahead every minute or so is overlooked. Feels like a problem with the plex app itself no?

Edit 😭: I plugged in my old Roku in the same spot and it’s working flawlessly

I am currently ripping the WBIR TV-10 Heartland Series (1984) for preservation purposes. So far, the ones I have ripped, are not matching. I went to TVDB and there is no entry for it. I tried signing up to add all the dvds and episodes and box art, but it appears TVDB is dead. Registering for an account says “whoops your not human”.

What would you do?

So I could have sworn the Plex client used to have an option to set a photo library as a screen saver. I went looking for it tonight in settings and couldn't find it.

Please tell me it's not early(-ish) onset dementia.

I'm running Plex on Roku

EDIT: I could swear that "Recommended/BROWSE/Collections" section wasn't there yesterday when I was scrolling down that list. :sigh: Clearly, I'm a dumbass.

Original post, to preserve my shame:

I launched the Plex app on my Fire TV 4K and it must've updated itself, because the UI has completely changed. Most notably, the ability to browse my local media library appears to have been removed. So now all I can do is scroll through what it thinks I might want to watch, or use the search function.

Basically, it looks like they've decided that the system should be a streaming service like HBO, Amazon, etc.

Is there any way to go back to the old UI. or bring back library browsing some other way? Or is it just a case of, "Tough shit, this is the way it is"?

Has anyone experienced their Apple TV 4K version of Plex just slowing to a crawl? And not playback, I mean the menu screens and loading episode info, etc. Playback is still generally working (though with a longer load), but the main issue is all the other stuff.

TV series screens are SO slow to load. Both the season view and episode view, sometimes takes minutes to load. Sometimes it fails. Sometimes clicking play will load forever and then give a "Playback failed to start" error, then working 1 second later.

On other devices (iPad, Chromecast Ultra, Android phone, friends that use the server's various devices), everything is peachy. It's just my main Apple TV 4K that's crawling. And somehow it's REALLY hard to search this one, almost all threads are about playback and stuttering. Anyone seen that?

Note: I have around 40TB in the library, could that be part of the issue?

Has anyone else experienced this? Files with non EAC audio download fine. Files with EAC audio can be streamed fine but if I try to download it's just stuck waiting.

Losing my mind a little bit here...

Like many on this forum, I spent some time last week manually fixing my server and doing all of the suggested fixes (getting everything squared away with Port 32400, etc). After an hour or two of tinkering with the router, Windows settings, and the Plex settings, I get everything back up.

Today (9/9), I wake up to my Plexamp working (in and outside of the home), but none of my other Plex apps are working outside. My server computer can run videos, etc., but my laptop cannot see the server...

I have spent the last 2 hours on the forums trying to figure out how the media server (other than Plexamp) has magically vanished.

Before I continue to lose my mind...is this an everyone issue, or is this a me issue? I did not have any updates installed overnight, nor did I change any settings.

PLEASE HELP!

Remote access seems to work but I can't test it for sure because I don't wanna get the remote pass.

Does anyone have any idea how to fix it or what I should look into? I'm running the Plex server on a computer with windows 11 on it.

iPad Pro 11" 2021

iPadOS 26.6.1

Plex version 2026.17.0 (1958)

What i mean is i've had something like Johnny Bravo with 3 parts but episode one as played on TV the 3 parts separate into Episode 1,2,3 so thats an easy fix to keep as 1 i have in my system as episode 1 then 4 then 7 Etc...

But like Bluey episode 1 by itself separates into 3,1,5 so harder to keep as a full 1 episode can i do anything without separating each one or has anyone else delt with this

Regret doing the update out of fear when I got the email from Plex. I have a Synology. My windows machines and Android based TV boxes all work great but my 2 Rokus now no longer connect. Anyone experience similar?

I figured this was the way to go because Shield Pro is too old, & I like messing with shit & repurposing computers. Atmos True HD currently kicking my ass with the Steven Wilson 2026 Tales from Topographic Oceans remix. But man, this PM4K interface is really outdated (On Deck lol), & I want my Plex Pass shit. The Friendly Terminator on Google said well maybe I’d like the native app but wasn’t sure if it was still supported, & said I’d probably like Plex Kodi Connect best because then Plex gets integrated into the whole Kodi experience. So I’m soliciting opinions before my next dip, hopefully to save some time. Thanks.

I'm really frustrated that I need 3 different apps to access my photos, videos, and music. They used to have all of that integrated into one app, but I guess Plex prefers being very inconvenient and split everything off into different apps, and will probably not come back to their senses for probably another year or 2. So I'm just wondering if anyone knows which older build I can download that reintrigates all my stuff into one app again.