Plix

Status

In development

Year

2026

Platforms

Windows · macOS · Samsung TV · Android

The problem

Plex had grown heavy for one household's needs, and a 2020 Samsung TV can't play half the files on the shelf (DTS audio, Hi10P video, Xvid, seeking in MKV). Plix is built for exactly that hardware: an Intel PC with no graphics card serving a Tizen TV over Wi-Fi.

What I built

• A Rust media server (axum, SQLite, FFmpeg) with incremental library scans, filename parsing, ffprobe metadata, and hardware-encoder detection across Quick Sync, VideoToolbox, NVENC and AMF.
• A per-device playback decision (direct play, remux or transcode) with automatic fallback, keyframe-accurate seeking, quality caps for Wi-Fi, and streams tuned to what the TV actually accepts, measured on the set itself.
• Subtitles end to end: embedded and sidecar tracks converted to WebVTT, picture subtitles burned in, and OpenSubtitles search by file hash.
• Plix TV for Tizen (Svelte 5, built for Chromium 69), a web UI, and a Tauri app that plays through mpv on desktop and ExoPlayer on Android.
• LAN discovery over mDNS, TV pairing by code, and several computers joining one main server so their libraries show up as one.

Stack

• Rust
• axum
• FFmpeg
• SQLite
• Svelte 5
• Tizen
• Tauri 2
• mpv

Where it stands

Running at home every day and getting its finishing touches before release. Source is private for now.