Settings for the Roku app can be accessed from the User Menu located at the top of the Navigation Sidebar.

Account

Account Visibility & Activity Sharing

Permissions your Profile and activities on Plex

Sync my watch state and ratings

Enable Watch State syncing for your account.

Related Page: Sync Watch State and Ratings

Watched Indicators for Personal Media

You can control how watched indicators display on certain personal media types. Watched Indicators are always shown for episode and season list items on details pages regardless of this setting.

Language

Choose the language for the Plex Media Player interface.

Manage Your Streaming Services

Choose the streaming services you use so Plex can tell when content on them is available as part of Discover

Related Page: Discover Source

Sign Out

Experience

Automatically Sign In

If you’re in a Plex Home, you can use this option to have the app automatically sign in to the currently-selected user and bypass any PIN for that user.

Related Page: Plex Home

Remote Control

Enable or disable the ability for other Plex apps to fling content to this device and control it remotely.

Related Page: Plex Companion

Remember Selected Tab

Select this option to have the app remember which tab you last selected for each source (ie. Recommended, Library, Collections, etc.)

Theme Music

Choose if you would like the Theme Music played while browsing TV Shows.

Clock

The clock setting can be used to select the clock format to be used, or if the clock should be disabled.

Reset Home Customization

Reset all home screen libraries and sources on side bar and get a wizard to choose which you would like.

Player Experience

AutoPlay “Up Next” videos

When the Post Play screen is presented after playback, choose whether an “up next” video should be played automatically after a short countdown. This is often referred to as Autoplay.

Related Page: Play Queue Post-Play Screen

Auto Play Countdown Time (Plex Pass Required)

By default, the Up Next item has a countdown timer before the next item in the queue will auto play. You can adjust that to play immediately or select from different countdown presets. Choices are:

• Immediate
• 5 seconds
• 10 seconds (default for mobile players)
• 15 seconds (default for TV players)
• 30 seconds
• 60 seconds

Cinema Extras

The cinema trailers setting controls how many cinema trailers will play before a movie. Source settings can be controlled through Plex Media Server.

Related Page: Cinema Trailers, Extras, & Related Albums

Passout Protection (Plex Pass Required)

By default auto-playing content will not continue to auto-play the next item, if it’s been more than 2 hours since the user last interacted with the app. This is to help prevent content from continually playing if you fall asleep. Choices are:

• Never Prompt (Disable Passout Protection)
• After 1 hour
• After 2 hours (Default)
• After 3 hours

Rewind on Resume (Plex Pass Required)

When resuming playback of a paused item, you can choose to have the playback “rewind” and start X number of second prior to the point at which it was paused. This can be helpful in cases where you left the playback paused for an extended period. (Note that this does not impact starting playback via the Resume button on the details page of a media item or starting playback of an in-progress item directly from Continue Watching, for instance.)

This setting defaults to None or you can choose various values between 1 and 30 seconds.

Skip Intro (Plex Pass Required)

For TV show content that has intro markers this option determines if it will automatically skip the intro or even show the button. Choices are:

• Disabled: Don’t show the Skip Intro button at all
• Manually: Display the Skip Intro button and the user must interact with it if they want to skip the intro (Default)
• Automatically: Skip the intro sequence without having to hit the button

Related Page: Skip TV Show Intros

Skip Ads in Recorded Content (Plex Pass Required)

If you have content recorded from a Plex DVR and have enabled the ability for Plex to try and detect the commercial breaks, then a skip commercial button will be displayed by default. This setting allows you to control how ads detected in Plex Media Sever library content can be skipped. It will not skip past ads in our free, ad-supported Live TV or On-Demand content. Choices are:

• Disabled: Don’t show the Skip Ads button at all
• Manually: Show the Skip Ads button and the user must interact with it if they want to skip the ad break (Default)
• Automatically: Skip Ads without having to hit the button

Related Page: Removing Commercials

Skip Credits (Plex Pass Required)

For content that has credit markers this option determines if it will automatically skip or even show the button. Choices are:

• Disabled: Don’t show the Skip Credits button at all
• Manually: Show the Skip Credits button and the user must interact with it if they want to skip the credits (Default)
• Automatically: Skip the credit sequence without having to hit the button.

Related Page: Credit Detection

Appearance

Theme

Change application colors and backgroud

Content Layout

Choose your layout style. Modern adds item details inline on home

Home Background

• Artwork Colors: A gradient using colors from the poster
• None: A solid background

Details Background

• Artwork Colors: A gradient using colors from the poster
• Dimmed Art: Full screen dimmed art
• None: A solid background

Video

Local Quality

This sets the quality to use when streaming content on your local network. In most cases, you can set this to a high value (such as “Original”). Higher settings produce better video quality but require more network bandwidth.

Quality Suggestions

Have Plex player suggest lowering or increasing quality based on current bandwidth with server

Related Page: Playback Quality Suggestions

Maximum Remote Quality

You can set the quality to use when streaming content from a remote Plex Media Server. The quality you can reliably use is typically limited by either your download bandwidth or the upload bandwidth from the source Plex Media Server.

Related Page: Why is my video stream buffering?

Direct Play

Choose how the app handles Direct Play content

• Auto – The App will attempt to Direct Play compatible media, and direct stream/transcode when necessary.
• Force – The App will attempt to Direct Play regardless of compatibility, falling back to direct stream or transcode if a failure occurs.
• Disable – The App will not attempt to Direct Play media, resulting in either direct streaming or transcoding the media as necessary.

Allow Direct Stream

When enabled, the Allow Direct Stream toggle allows the server to copy compatible audio and video streams without converting them and repackage the streams inside a natively supported container. You will almost always want this enabled.

H264 Maximum Level

Choose the maximum H.264 level to be considered when deciding if the media will Direct Play, Direct Stream, or Transcode.

Note: We recommend leaving this set to the default level of 4.1. You can try using something higher, but it’s not recommended as it may result in playback issues.

Allow MPEG2

Allows direct streaming of MPEG2 for live TV and DVR when using original video quality

Burn Subtitles

Determines if the server should burn in subtitles when converting video, depending on the subtitles format. Avoiding burning in subtitles improves server performance. Available choices:

• Always – When used, subtitles will always be burned into the video, regardless of the original source type of the subtitle.
• Automatic – (Default) Burn in subtitles when the subtitle is an image-based format (e.g. VOBSUB, PGS, SUB/IDX, etc.) as well as for complex ASS/SSA subtitles.
• Only image formats – Only burn in subtitles when the subtitle is an image-based format (e.g. VOBSUB, PGS, SUB/IDX, etc.)

Subtitles

Roku Captions Mode

Enable or disable the Roku system “Closed Captions” mode. This must not be disabled if you wish to be able to view subtitles in Plex.

Advanced

Warning!: These advanced preferences should not need to be altered by most users.

Allow Insecure Connections

When enabled, it means that this device is allowed to make insecure connections to a Plex Media Server if secure connections fail. Available choices:

• Never – (Default) Never fall back to insecure connections without specific action from the user
• On same network – Allow fallback, but only when Plex Web App and the Plex Media Server are on the same network
• Always – Always allow fallback

Server Discovery (GDM)

When enabled the Plex channel will scan your local network at startup to find any available Servers.

Note: The Server Discovery (GDM) option requires your Plex Media Server to also have it’s Enable local network discovery (GDM) option enabled in order for it to be discoverable.

Related Page: Network

Logging

Here you can set the logging level for the App.

Related Page: Roku Logs

Manual Connections

You can manually specify the IP address (IPv4) and port for a Plex Media Server to which you want to connect.

Tip!: So long as you Sign in to Your Plex Account in both the Plex Media Player app and your Plex Media Server, the app will automatically have connection information for the server and you won’t need to use this.

Privacy

Privacy Policy

Links you to our privacy policy.

Related Page: Plex Privacy Policy

Terms of Service

Links you to our terms of service.