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I think it's mpv 0.33. Downgrading to 0.32 makes it work again sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/mpv-1:0.32.0-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

segmentation fault occurs when trying to run the application. i believe danhyal is correct that it's related to the qt5 update.

If anyone is experiencing the client crashing upon clicking the "sign in" button, try using fullscreen mode or maximizing the window.

does not work with the qt5 update today

Getting the following error after an Syu.

plexmediaplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libplacebo.so.29: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Symlinking to libplacebo.so seems to work for now.

The app crashes when using the Wayland desktop environment (Gnome Wayland session, run with QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland plexmediaplayer).

It works fine on XWayland (Gnome Wayland session, run using QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb plexmediaplayer).

This is not working for me, every time I launch plex media player the window for the application pops up but I get stuck on the application loading up doesn't go anywhere from there.

Do you think it's possible to switch to the Ninja build system? I got significantly faster build times w/ Ninja, with 50 seconds for it compared to 161 seconds for GNU Make. It should be fairly simple to switch, by just adding the -G "Ninja" flag to cmake and replacing all calls to make with calls to ninja.

# Maintainer: Aaron Schmocker <>, Lukas Grimm <ombre@ombre.ch>
# Contributor: Daniel Egeberg <daniel.egeberg@gmail.com>
# Contributor: Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com>
# Contributor: TingPing <tingping@tingping.se>

pkgname=plex-media-player
pkgver=2.58.0
_gitrev=1076
_gitver=38e019da
_fullver="$pkgver.$_gitrev-$_gitver"
_fullname="$pkgname-$_fullver"
_web_buildid=183-045db5be50e175
_web_desktop_ver=4.29.2-e50e175
_web_tv_ver=4.29.6-045db5b
pkgrel=3
pkgdesc='Next generation Plex Desktop Client'
arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'armv7h' 'aarch64')
license=('GPL')
url='https://github.com/plexinc/plex-media-player'
depends=('mpv' 'qt5-webengine' 'libcec' 'sdl2' 'qt5-x11extras' 'qt5-quickcontrols' 'p8-platform' 'protobuf')
makedepends=('cmake')
source=("$_fullname.tar.gz::https://github.com/plexinc/plex-media-player/archive/v${_fullver}.tar.gz"
        "buildid-${_web_buildid}.cmake::https://artifacts.plex.tv/web-client-pmp/${_web_buildid}/buildid.cmake"
        "web-client-desktop-${_web_buildid}-${_web_desktop_ver}.tar.xz::https://artifacts.plex.tv/web-client-pmp/${_web_buildid}/web-client-desktop-${_web_desktop_ver}.tar.xz"
        "web-client-desktop-${_web_buildid}-${_web_desktop_ver}.tar.xz.sha1::https://artifacts.plex.tv/web-client-pmp/${_web_buildid}/web-client-desktop-${_web_desktop_ver}.tar.xz.sha1"
        "web-client-tv-${_web_buildid}-${_web_tv_ver}.tar.xz::https://artifacts.plex.tv/web-client-pmp/${_web_buildid}/web-client-tv-${_web_tv_ver}.tar.xz"
        "web-client-tv-${_web_buildid}-${_web_tv_ver}.tar.xz.sha1::https://artifacts.plex.tv/web-client-pmp/${_web_buildid}/web-client-tv-${_web_tv_ver}.tar.xz.sha1"
        'qt.patch'
        'plex.patch')
noextract=("web-client-desktop-${_web_buildid}-${_web_desktop_ver}.tar.xz"
           "web-client-tv-${_web_buildid}-${_web_tv_ver}.tar.xz")
sha512sums=('702826ed5dc5ad4f1a9a877834dce0734eeb5b0f3eb007a6e6dff2fc1b7fc1ebbd1ad7a42be6ebec392e5313abb2867121b3dfcf00acc008dbae628564594866'
            '6c3fa0d2fa26da3c8ed47de5385f0f2fb1af0409f4a58aef5bc2c2cf75741dcbddd4b496ca5b9a55c4ce35e09ed076d411c3e9c330de1d99761aa0ebc3fae6bc'
            '0c09ebf57cd39e8e4dae449e3882725686214e0bed07e3dac25eae579ebdc3a136e51bb2272aaca6a5b8e317b1ccbe94231eb214ddf11cbfb14307a0e7f3e3e0'
            '3f2de45e29303445bca976d61e343acabc29edbca0c9dcddeff9134d75c317a8f678a122e6c429fea0801b49fe40d2b30a4f44cd8fdcc040b3c9ab5b15f04d0e'
            'd60cc01f6b9abf579b3fa2e5b5c9b19e71a986578b0ca46173572324fb54573c97f09ac0ef1654a0b04d68eee20ab3d81ab19a85a761ba638b2b543548ff94ac'
            '442c2e5a31eed30167009bdaf263c66bea482d4ad03e168c9d9eb5e9f4e40f771dee9bc6913d6be46f7d86feb961603f172bb6497fac28c4f5d36a1f05d0ec66'
            'SKIP'
            'SKIP')

prepare() {
    cd "${srcdir}/$_fullname"

    patch --forward --strip=1 --input="${srcdir}/qt.patch"
    patch --forward --strip=1 --input="${srcdir}/plex.patch"

    # All this git version junk fails, just remove it we already have the version
    sed -i 's|include(GetGitRevisionDescription)||
            s|get_git_head_revision(REFSPEC FULL_GIT_REVISION)||' \
           CMakeModules/VersionConfiguration.cmake

    mkdir -p build/dependencies
    for f in "buildid-${_web_buildid}.cmake"; do
         ln -sf "${srcdir}/${f}" "build/dependencies/${f}"
    done
    for f in "web-client-desktop-${_web_buildid}-${_web_desktop_ver}.tar.xz"{,.sha1} "web-client-tv-${_web_buildid}-${_web_tv_ver}.tar.xz"{,.sha1}; do
        target="${f/-${_web_buildid}-/-}"
        ln -sf "${srcdir}/${f}" "build/dependencies/${target}"
    done
}

build() {
    cd "${srcdir}/$_fullname/build"

    cmake -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX='/usr' -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE='Release' -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=1 \
          -DFULL_GIT_REVISION="$_gitver" -DQTROOT='/usr' \
          ..
    ninja
}

package() {
    cd "${srcdir}/$_fullname/build"

    DESTDIR="$pkgdir" ninja install
}

@gibbz, It means cec package got updated.

Now you need to rebuild plex-media-player package.

plexmediaplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libcec.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Been having this since one of the updates earlier this year... Anyone know how to fix this?

Edit fix with: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libcec.so.6 /usr/lib/libcec.so.5