Plex 裁撤整個播放器團隊

October 21, 2026, 12:23pm 85

Same problem.

dklein October 21, 2026, 12:44pm 86

@drzoidberg33 I think it would be really beneficial for the plex team to put out a blog post or have a fireside chat about the current state of clients across the board. The user base on every major client has seen an experience that they were widely enthusiastic about and willing to promote to friends and family, crash and burn on all the New Experience clients with little feedback or comment from Plex itself on the matter.

I think we all understand that Plex needs to have alternative sources of revenue, but that should not have come at the sacrifice of the basic functionality of the core of the app, especially when there is a new vibe coded community app being released every other day that is handling media playback better than the first party new experience apps.

This is a safety issue for users as they run to these unvetted vibe coded apps looking for a cheap solution to a problem that shouldn’t exist.

The team has burned a lot of good will these last few months, and a bit of a mea culpa could go a long way to smoothing that over.

LoveMyslf October 21, 2026, 1:22pm 87

When will this be fixed???

t3m4h October 21, 2026, 3:25pm 88

Hello Plex Team,

I’m experiencing the same issue on my Apple TV 4K.

Dolby Vision 4K HEVC/MKV videos keep buffering indefinitely and won’t play, while HDR10 4K videos work perfectly.

The exact same Dolby Vision files play without any issues on my TCL TV using the Plex app.

I’ve already tried changing audio tracks, disabling Force Direct Play, and restarting Plex, but nothing has worked.

I understand that the team is currently working on a fix.

Could you please confirm whether this issue will be fixed in the next update and provide an estimated release date?

Thank you for your hard work. I hope this gets resolved soon!

ZachMurph October 21, 2026, 4:04pm 89

Following. Same issue. Very frustrating.

Tim2309 October 21, 2026, 5:14pm 90

Same issue for me on iPhone and Apple TV 4k

Chparx October 21, 2026, 5:23pm 91

Plex Server → Jellyfin
Plex Player on Apple TV → Rivulet
Migrate data → JellyPlex-Watched

Bye Plex !

dklein October 21, 2026, 5:28pm 93

Damn, sorry to hear that Craig.

I’ve always appreciated your help and your willingness to keep us in the loop.

I know its not much, but wishing you the best.

juliantm October 21, 2026, 6:09pm 94

Darn, a lot of us were rooting for you and Plex. It sounds like Plex is about to default on things.

Randrage October 21, 2026, 6:23pm 95

Holy sh*t!

kth34 October 21, 2026, 6:37pm 96

goddamn. i’m sorry to hear that. i’ve been there, it sucks. doesn’t sound like it bodes well for those of us still running plex on hope…

Whelp, if I read one more post or new of Plex laying off folks I’m going to demand a refund for my lifetime pass and dump this s#it….

At this point it’s clear Plex stakeholders and leadership are looking to torpedo and shutter this system and service then sell off the scraps. Someone needs to somehow fork a Plex open sourced replacement, Jellyfin still isn’t there yet….

nx6 October 21, 2026, 7:13pm 98

So the solution is to make another app and start from scratch? Wouldn’t it be better to contribute to Jellyfin and make something already 75% of the way there better? The Jellyfin project doesn’t have a money issue, they have an issue with no enough manpower writing (not-vibed) code and reviewing PRs for merging.

Seems like Plex is spending millions on advertising and saying screw their developers.

Well, if Plex fails maybe they will open source the code so it can continue.

I’m so sorry to hear that. Plex is obviously going down the toilet and won’t be long for this world if this is how they handle their people.

LoveMyslf October 21, 2026, 8:05pm 101

OMFG… WTF is going on!!! Me and my family can’t watch what we want, and they are firing people. Wow, good job, whoever is making decisions at Plex…

Btw I have the impression from the other posts, that you lost your job? In which case I am sorry for you and hope everything will work out for you ASAP…

It’s over.

Zenome October 21, 2026, 8:14pm 103

Same issue on iPad, iPhone 16 & 18 pm, hope it will be fix quickly

probably best to delete your accounts before they sell your data to someone else.

smmacca October 21, 2026, 8:58pm 105

I am actually blown away that something like this got released. What are you guys doing over there?

I cannot fathom that you thought any of this “new experience” stuff was a good idea. It was also incredibly silly to try brand this to the user as a “polished new UI refresh!” when the point was to unify everything to one codebase at the expense of UX. I’m sure that wasn’t the intention, but it’s obviously what’s going to happen when you do something like that.

It was a completely unnecessary change that while the point was probably to save time & money maintaining multiple apps on multiple platforms, you guys are probably now losing more time & money from people cancelling their Plex subscriptions, moving to alternatives, and of course fixing insanely stupid bugs like this, that it’s probably more profitable to maintain multiple apps.

I think whoever is in charge of development at Plex, or whoever made that decision should be exited. It’s never okay to hurt user experience with an update or an internal change. All it’s doing is making their experience worse and driving people away.

What’s more mind-blowing to me is the fact that the head honchos at Plex just refuse to talk about any of this at all in any more than a “fix is coming soon” capacity. It’s extremely clear from the size of some of the recent ATV threads, Reddit and all of your socials that nobody is a fan of this update. Why not provide some insights or some form of response.

I hate to be that guy but the customer is always right. If such a huge portion of your customers are complaining about the software quality and such a stupid bug that should never have even been pushed, maybe the best idea is to go back to the old app?