Plex HTPC has numerous settings, accessible under the Settings menu, which can be found either at the bottom of the sidebar or from within the user menu.

General

• Account Visibility & Activity Sharing: Permissions for your Profile and activities on Plex
• Sync Your Watch State and Ratings: Sync your watched/played state and personal ratings of movies and episodes with your Plex account online Sync Watch State and Ratings.
• Language: The language used for interface elements (library content will display in the language set by the server admin for that library).
• Manage Your Streaming Services: Select your steaming services.
• Sign Out: Unlink the application from your Plex account.

Experience

• Automatically Sign In: If in a Plex Home, skip the user picker and sign directly into the last signed in user. (Managed users cannot change this setting).
• Clock: Show clock on the top right of navigation screens.
• Time Format: Choose a 12- or 24-hour format for time.
• Watched Indication for Personal Media: Show or hide watched badges on posters for Movie and/or TV content from Plex Media Server libraries
• Remember Selected Tab: When selecting a library, return to the last tab used (Recommended, Library, Collection, etc.).
• Feedback Sounds: Play an audible click when navigating through menus/options.
• Theme Music: Play theme music on item detail screens, when available.
• Screen Saver: Choose how soon the screensaver starts after user interaction or video playback stops.
• Screen Saver Type: Choose the screen saver style: Plex Logo, Entertainment (backgrounds from items in pinned libraries), or Photos. Note that if a personal media source is not pinned, the Plex Logo screensaver will be used.
• Reduce Motion: Reduces the amount of animations and automatic changes throughout the app.
• Show End Time for Video Playback: Displays the time the video will end in in the on-screen display player controls.
• Visibility:  Switch between Windowed, Maximized, and Full Screen views for the app.
• Keep Plex on Top of Windows: Choose keep the app above other app windows; never, only during playback or always.

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 Trailers

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

Audio

• Normalize: Reduces volume to avoid clipping when converting from multi-channel audio formats.
• Exclusive Audio: Bypasses the system audio mixer, ensuring that only the media’s audio is sent to the audio device. Prevents sounds from other applications on the selected device.
• Audio Device: Choose the audio device for sound output.
• Fixed Audio Offset: You can adjust the audio offset (compared to the video) for different display refresh rates.

Video

• Quality Suggestions: Automatically suggest video quality upgrade/downgrades to the best quality supported on the devices connection speed.
• Local Quality: Video quality when playing back from a Plex Media Server on the same local subnet.
• Maximum Remote Quality: Video quality when playing back content from a remote Plex Media Server or streaming from an internet source.
• Allow Direct Play: Allows the video to played as is, if possible.
• Allow Direct Stream: Allows the format to be changed but internal streams to be played as is, when possible.
• Force Direct Play: Try to play without asking server to transcode.
• Use Hardware Decoding: May improve video playback performance. (Disable if encountering unexpected playback problems.)
• Zoom: Options to alter the video stream to fit the screen.
• Enable Refresh Rate Switching: Change the refresh rate of the TV/display to match the video being played.
• Refresh Rate Switching Delay: Pause video playback to give time for the TV/display to switch refresh rates. (Generally if audio doesn’t work after a refresh rate change, increase the delay in this setting.)
• Video Playback Quality: Adjusting playback increases or decreases image processing during video playback.

Subtitles

Options to change the subtitle and position of most text based subtitle formats. Does not affect ASS/SSA and image based subtitles (such as PSG or VOBSUB).

Streaming Services

Manage your streaming services : Select the services you use so Plex can tell you what services content is on.

Related Page: Discover Source

Manual  Servers

Manually enter the IP and port of a server to connect. (Server’s secure connections must be set to preferred, and insecure connections must be allowed in app)

Advanced

• Allow Insecure Connections: Allow an insecure connection to a Plex Media Server.
• Prefer Insecure Connections: Choose network conditions under which you might prefer an insecure connection.
• Include IPv6 Connections: Include IPv6 Connections when discovering servers from plex.tv
• Show console log overlay: Overlay playing video with log of playback
• Log to Media Server: Writes app logs to the regular server logs for a chosen Plex Media Server. (Generally not advised.)
• Logging Level: The amount of detail to include in app logs. (The default of “debug” is almost always the best. Only change this if you understand what the logs mean or you are asked to by someone trying to assist you.)
• Resolution: The resolution the app interface is rendered at.
• Reset App: Resets all settings to default and signs the app out.

Privacy

• Account Visibility & Activity Sharing: Profile permissions your profile for Discover Together Profile.
• Information about where to access our Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Service.

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