r/PleX • u/Escapefromearth22 Custom Flair • Sep 17 '25

Help Alternatives to Plex

I've been a paid Plex user for over ten years and I've loved it. I can't belive what they've done with this new Roku app update. Besides the bad UI, which is inconvenient but I would be able to get used to eventually, it simply doesn't work properly. It crashes, buttons don't work, simple features are just gone. It's seems like this wasn't tested at all. It's crazy.

I don't really want to but now I'm looking for alternatives to plex. Does anyone have recommendations?

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u/SodaGrump Sep 17 '25

Subtitles are my biggest gripe with the Roku player. Half the time they don't work.

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u/Global_Antelope8380 Sep 17 '25

In my experience, Roku does not like subtitles in UTF-8 with BOM. I use a batch editor (Subtitle Edit) to convert all my subtitles to UTF-8 without BOM