GLinnik21/plx-native
Fast, unofficial Plex client for LG webOS TVs — native 60 fps UI, 4K HEVC/Dolby Vision, no Chromium or WebView.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 34 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a fast, unofficial Plex client for LG webOS TVs with a native 60 fps GPU-rendered interface and direct video decoding.
- Delivers smooth, low-latency playback without relying on Chromium or web views, enhancing performance on older LG TVs.
- Use for watching 4K HEVC and Dolby Vision Plex content on LG webOS 4.0+ TVs with native hardware decoding support.
- Use for browsing and searching multiple Plex servers seamlessly with a responsive, GPU-accelerated UI on smart TVs.
- Use for installing and running a privacy-conscious Plex client without root, supporting Developer Mode and Homebrew Channel setups.
Should you depend on it?
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License
GPL 3.0
Copyleft: distributing software that includes it generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
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From the README
A fast, unofficial Plex client for LG webOS televisions. Native, not a web page — the interface is drawn straight on the GPU at 60 fps, and video plays on the TV's own decoder.
In daily use on a 2019 LG set. PlxNative is an independent project and is not affiliated with Plex, Inc. or LG. The same install steps are in the repo: installation guide.
The official Plex app on my old LG is slow. Scrolling a shelf stutters, opening a poster takes a beat too long. It behaves like a web page because it is one: a web app running in the television's Chromium. Patching it doesn't help — the ceiling isn't the code, it's the browser.
So I threw the browser away.
PlxNative draws straight on the GPU and hands video to the same silicon the built-in apps use. No Chromium, no JavaScript, no web view. It just draws. Almost all of it is Rust, and I use it every day to watch things off my server in the next room.
Real captures of the app, not mockups: the same code that runs on the television, on the desktop simulator, browsing a demo library of openly licensed films (credits).
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Daily snapshots
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+649 stars over 24 days across 4 snapshot days; best day +35 on Oct 11.
Forks
131+87
Open issues
38+30
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| Category median | 56.0K | +2.3K | 29 | — |
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