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I've been adding the build flag -DLINUX_X11POWER=on so that plex will keep my screensaver from activating while playing videos. Any chance we could get this in there by default?

I have problems playing Tidal tunes in Plex. After 19 seconds the song stops and the next one starts. Tidal in Plex show's my playlists so it should be connected to my Tidal account.

This does not happen on the macOS desktop client or mobile clients.

Any ideas?

UPDATE: After some investigation it looks like this only happens in the desktop view. If I use the TV view songs are played as expected.

Yeah doesn't work. I launch it from the terminal and I never get a window.

2020-12-31 19:11:58,950 [    INFO] conf: Loaded settings from json: /home/matt/.config/plex-mpv-shim/conf.json
2020-12-31 19:11:59,064 [    INFO] player: Using libmpv1 playback backend.
2020-12-31 19:11:59,087 [    INFO] root: Started GDM service
2020-12-31 19:11:59,087 [    INFO] client: Started HTTP server
2020-12-31 19:11:59,096 [   DEBUG] PIL.PngImagePlugin: STREAM b'IHDR' 16 13
2020-12-31 19:11:59,096 [   DEBUG] PIL.PngImagePlugin: STREAM b'zTXt' 41 1315
2020-12-31 19:11:59,096 [   DEBUG] PIL.PngImagePlugin: STREAM b'bKGD' 1368 6
2020-12-31 19:11:59,096 [   DEBUG] PIL.PngImagePlugin: b'bKGD' 1368 6 (unknown)
2020-12-31 19:11:59,096 [   DEBUG] PIL.PngImagePlugin: STREAM b'pHYs' 1386 9
2020-12-31 19:11:59,096 [   DEBUG] PIL.PngImagePlugin: STREAM b'tIME' 1407 7
2020-12-31 19:11:59,096 [   DEBUG] PIL.PngImagePlugin: b'tIME' 1407 7 (unknown)
2020-12-31 19:11:59,096 [   DEBUG] PIL.PngImagePlugin: STREAM b'IDAT' 1426 612
Process STrayProcess-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/multiprocessing/process.py", line 315, in _bootstrap
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/plex_mpv_shim/gui_mgr.py", line 242, in run
    icon.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pystray/_base.py", line 192, in run
    self._run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pystray/_util/gtk.py", line 64, in _run
    self._notifier = notify_dbus.Notifier()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pystray/_util/notify_dbus.py", line 40, in __init__
    self._notify = Gio.DBusProxy.new_sync(
gi.repository.GLib.GError: g-io-error-quark: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.Notifications: Timeout was reached (24)
vvvccccadfas^C2020-12-31 19:12:42,678 [    INFO] gui_mgr: Stopping due to CTRL+C.
2020-12-31 19:12:42,679 [    INFO] client: Stopping HTTP server...

An alternative: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/plex-mpv-shim/

So, the player isn't loading at all. The window opens, it shows the big PLEX MEDIA PLAYER logo for a second, and then I just get a window with the spinning wheel after launching, and I can leave it sit for 20 minutes and it never loads.

Launching from a terminal provides no help, I just get:

matt-archlinux% plexmediaplayer
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
Logging to /home/matt/.local/share/plexmediaplayer/logs/plexmediaplayer.log

Screen goes black on a regular interval (~20 mins?). Audio continues. Moving mouse brings the screen back. Tried setting Screensaver to None in PMP settings and disabling all power save settings in sys. No luck. Doesn't happen on browser version, though browser version has other issues.

Any advice to keep the screen from going off? The package works great otherwise--way better than browser version.

@ombre Happy to help. Thanks for maintaining the package.

@jmonger Sure, and I've opened a pull request against their upstream, but it's worth mentioning that they've more or less moved on from this product and it's doubtful they'll take it up. Perhaps if folks head to their repo and vote up the change it could get some attention.

https://github.com/plexinc/plex-media-player/pull/999

I'm just an end user of the package, however, it seems like Plex should be addressing this sooner rather than later. I'd prefer to stick with the official repo rather than a fork.

Thx @Palshife, I tested your Code and it works, I wait for Asators Feedback and will then update the Package. Thank you very much for your patch