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iwalton3 / plex-mpv-shim

Cast media from Plex Mobile and Web apps to MPV. (Unofficial)
MIT License
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Appreciation Post #80

Closed LampPrinter closed 1 year ago

LampPrinter commented 1 year ago

Just a appreciation post. I am part of of 2-3 very good Plex servers which can saturate my 200 Mbps download speed, if I download anything from them.

But the Plex web client was always very slow for me. So much so I'd rather download the files first. Skipping around the timeline would take anywhere between 5-15 seconds.

plex-mpv-shim completely changed that. It opens faster and skipping around is so much better. I am watching stuff in 4k now. 😜

LostSoulfly commented 1 year ago

That's probably because the web interface was having to transcode your streams. If you use the desktop Plex app it would most likely direct play.

I'm not saying plex-mpv-shim isn't great, because of course it is, but I just wanted you to know that there are other reasons for your issue 😄

LampPrinter commented 1 year ago

That's probably because the web interface was having to transcode your streams. If you use the desktop Plex app it would most likely direct play.

I'm not saying plex-mpv-shim isn't great, because of course it is, but I just wanted you to know that there are other reasons for your issue 😄

Nope. Direct play on web client too. But yeah mobile and desktop apps were marginally better regarding load and skipping times.

LostSoulfly commented 1 year ago

Plex's desktop app uses MPV internally, essentially the same thing as plex-mpv-shim minus the shaders. You don't need to try it but it's a fact that it performs better than the web player which historically has far fewer codecs that it can direct play.