Package Details: plex-media-player 2.58.1-3

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/plex-media-player.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: plex-media-player
Description: Next generation Plex Desktop Client
Upstream URL: https://github.com/plexinc/plex-media-player
Licenses: GPL
Conflicts: jellyfin-media-player
Submitter: TingPing
Maintainer: ombre (Asator)
Last Packager: ombre
Votes: 109
Popularity: 0.001010
First Submitted: 2015-11-29 18:10 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2022-04-06 20:27 (UTC)

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polyzen commented on 2020-02-22 00:29 (UTC)

There are no issues when built with the QT 5.13.2 packages. There has only been one release since then, and no security concerns I'm aware of.

You can easily downgrade with this, and it also prompts to add the downgraded packages to IgnorePkg in /etc/pacman.conf for you.

boennhoff commented on 2020-02-22 00:13 (UTC) (edited on 2020-02-22 00:17 (UTC) by boennhoff)

Having this issue even with the most current version proofs you wrong @ombre. And have a look for the last comment from @Kage-Yami, his findings might explain the black screen issue you are referring to.

Integrating the qt5-595 packages is the only sane way of handling this (not to say the nicest solution, because it also brings all bugs that old QT versions contain... black screen anyone?). But at least we can file bugs for that.

I believe the issue would be more obvious if the qt.patch would not have been integrated in the first place, because that actually results in a runtime-broken compilation, at least for >=qt-5.14.

Kage-Yami commented on 2020-02-13 12:47 (UTC) (edited on 2020-02-15 02:53 (UTC) by Kage-Yami)

@ombre I'm surprised that the qt-595 packages in the AUR don't build (haven't tried it myself though), given they're by @cian1500ww from this year... You can have AUR packages inside depends for other AUR packages - it's up the the end user to ensure they have those packages installed or available in a configured repository (this is pretty common, and is exactly what plex-media-player-git does).

As for the black-screen issues, I tracked it down to only happening with HEVC videos; MP4, Theora, VP9, and x264 videos all play fine for me. While the reported colour is different, it might be this issue: https://github.com/plexinc/plex-media-player/issues/929

EDIT: Interesting - so downgrading mesa-vdpau to 19.1.1 (it just so happened to be the oldest one I had locally) fixes the black-screen issue. Time to find it exactly which version it breaks in.

EDIT 2: So 19.1.* and 19.2.0 versions of mesa-vdpau seems to work for me. Other versions of 19.2.* crash PMP outright, and 19.3.* exhibit the black-screen issue.

EDIT 3: I suppose I should mention I'm running an AMD CPU + AMD Discrete GPU.

ombre commented on 2020-02-13 10:23 (UTC) (edited on 2020-02-13 10:38 (UTC) by ombre)

I just unflagged the Package as "out-of-date" since this is not the case. I'm aware that there are Issues with this package and Asator and I are looking into it to find a solution. As there are reports of black screens with the qt-5.9.5 packages and the PKGBUILD with those packages does not really work, since makepkg installs dependencies with pacman so they can't be aur packages this isn't a way to go we have to find an other solution to fix this issues.

mohan226 commented on 2020-02-13 05:02 (UTC)

I built PMP with QT 5.9.5 with @cian1500ww's PKGBUILD. I get a black screen with only audio and subtitles for some media.

Kage-Yami commented on 2020-02-09 23:59 (UTC)

@moita Yeah, did that... as shown in the diff I linked.

moita commented on 2020-02-09 23:47 (UTC)

Kage-Yami, I just changed the depends line, added the 3 lines after build() and changed the 2 cmake lines, everything is working here. The PKGBUILD that I used: https://pastebin.com/rivmwNWt

Kage-Yami commented on 2020-02-09 08:17 (UTC) (edited on 2020-02-23 12:59 (UTC) by Kage-Yami)

So I've gotten this to build with QT 5.9.5 (thanks to @cian1500ww).

However, whenever I try to play a video, I get a black screen with perfect audio and UI. Would anyone have any ideas? (Note that it's not the previous "ghosting" issue present with new versions of QT.)

EDIT: Dead link to diff removed.

polyzen commented on 2020-02-08 18:42 (UTC)

Did you not test the changes before pushing again? :\

Here's a patch: https://paste.xinu.at/mNtka/plain

In future, please change the pkgrel to 1 on new releases: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#pkgrel

Please read this page in full: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_submission_guidelines

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