vidcutter VS plex-mpv-shim

Check out losslesscut, vidcutter and avidemux.

Try out vidcutter, based on the popular media player mpv.

I use it to trim all my game clips. It also supports displaying HDR videos properly, something I'm not aware if similar programs like VidCutter have.

https://github.com/ozmartian/vidcutter give this a try, use it under Windows 11 as well as Arch Linux and works fine in both cases, the other option is Avidemux but for simple cutting and joining, this app is faster and easier to work with.

You could also use something like https://github.com/iwalton3/plex-mpv-shim

My best client experience is nvidia shield, and using plex-shim-mpv. It uses mpv as the client and supports every format I watch, specifically ASS subtitles for anime get direct played.

I found this thread: https://github.com/iwalton3/plex-mpv-shim/issues/31 It seems that changing the config to use http (insecured connection) may solve this issue. I have remote access enabled and I'm signed in to the Plex server, so maybe that's why I didn't have those issues.

I just don't worry about it until I try and watch the movie and it has black bars, then I just use plex-mpv-shim to watch it, and handbrake it after.

Have you tried this? I use it all the time when watching stuff on Plex. It direct plays every thing I have minus 4K. Note it doesn’t offer the Plex gui. Instead I used my phone to find what I wanted using the Plex app and then cast it to the player

The plex experience in a browser was never great for me, whether it was transcoding or subtitles. Once I started using plex-mpv-shim, all those problems went away and it's a fast and seamless experience with directplay every time.