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333 points indigodaddy | 3 comments | | HN request time: 0s | source
1. causality0 ◴[] No.33581113[source]
I need to make this jump at some point. I can cope with the money-grubbing UI changes but the Plex App for smart TVs and consoles is by far the worst piece of trash software I've ever used and certainly the worst I still use. It crashes constantly, it displays my progress in a video yet still restarts it from the beginning when I hit Resume, and it has absolutely no idea how to regulate its own performance. It will happily get so bogged down trying to apparently use a bitrate that's too high it takes over thirty seconds for the Back button to stop the video and return to the menu. It's not 2002 anymore, your video player should be able to tell when it's locking up every five seconds.
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2. TheSecondMouse ◴[] No.33581234[source]
Is that an Android smart TV, Tizen, WebOS? I have mine setup through an Nvidia Shield (Android), and it's worked flawlessly for years.
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3. causality0 ◴[] No.33582078[source]
I've used it on a Roku TV, a Roku stick, a Fire stick, a Samsung smart TV, a Hisense android smart TV, and a Sony smart TV. All miserable experiences. Perhaps the Shield has enough raw horsepower to make up for the app being garbage.