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Posts must be related to Plex and Plex-related products, apps. etc. Try to keep comments relevant to the parent comment and to the post.


Rule 4 - Keep discussions of "media aqcuistion" limited to means and methods only.

Discussions regarding media acquisition should be limited to the "how" not the "what", as this is not the place to discuss piracy of specific media. There are other communities for that, and we don't want to get this community defederated from instances where it's a forbidden topic. Posts/comments discussing specific acts of piracy ("How do I find X show?" or "Where can I download Y film?")will be removed. For further clarification see this post


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PUBLIC - Version 1.45.1

Platform: Windows, Mac, and Linux

New

  • Change default remote quality from 4Mbps to 12Mbps Added volume support for Plex Companion

Fixes

  • Fixed episodes hub not displaying on miniseries preplay screens for Discover source
  • [Community] Number of friend suggestion hub items is now 10
  • [Discover Together] Fixed disclaimer overflow in the Privacy Settings screen

DOWNLOAD LINK

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PUBLIC - Version 5.66.1

Platform: Hisense models (in United States and Europe) running the U4 system software

New

  • Change default remote quality from 4Mbps to 12Mbps

Fixes

  • Fixed episodes hub not displaying on miniseries preplay screens for Discover source
  • [Community] Number of friend suggestion hub items is now 10
  • [Discover Together] Fixed disclaimer overflow in the Privacy Settings screen
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PUBLIC - Version 5.66.1

Platform: LG webOS 3.0+

New

  • Change default remote quality from 4Mbps to 12Mbps

Fixes

  • Fixed episodes hub not displaying on miniseries preplay screens for Discover source
  • [Community] Number of friend suggestion hub items is now 10
  • [Discover Together] Fixed disclaimer overflow in the Privacy Settings screen
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PUBLIC - Version 5.66.1

Platform: VIZIO SmartCast

New

  • Change default remote quality from 4Mbps to 12Mbps

Fixes

  • Fixed episodes hub not displaying on miniseries preplay screens for Discover source
  • [Community] Number of friend suggestion hub items is now 10
  • [Discover Together] Fixed disclaimer overflow in the Privacy Settings screen
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Before I even start let me say that I know the suggestion is to put 4k into it own library...

99% of my movies are 1080p and that is my preference for space and quality balance. However, there are a few choice movies that I'll want a 4k version of. I would rather my users get defaulted to the highest non-4k version but then have the option to select a different version if they were savy enough to do that.

Feels like it shouldn't be a terribly complicated feature. Have a "include x quality in default version selection". Or hell for my random case use if I could just manually reorder them I'd be happy.

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Can anyone point me in the right direction here? I have a pretty beefy PC I use as a server and HTPC. 24 2.5ghz cores, 64gb ram, kind of a crappy video card, debian 11. I just migrated all my stuff over and stress tested it supporting 8 different transcribed streams simultaneously (mix of in/out of local). That worked great.

BUT, the video playback is choppy (as in frame skipping) and out of sync when I'm running the HTPC program. Oddly using the web client on the same machine avoids that issue.

Any thoughts? I'm wondering if it might be that it's an older TV it's plugged into and there's some issue there. Thing is, like I said, the webclient its worlds better. Webclient seems to have some issues but I'm pretty sure that's just due to the TV.

Any pointers are helpful! I'm OK at this stuff but very much learning.

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I know how to turn off the notifications, but Plex should not nag me to rate things I have watched.

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Plex.tv outage (plex.statuspage.io)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

There's apparently a Plex outage currently. And it's a bit frustrating as it's preventing our TV app from connecting. Just an endless spinner after choosing a user despite only using local media etc.

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PUBLIC - Version 8.23.1

Platform: tvOS

New

  • A crash when launching the app on devices running tvOS 14 and tvOS 15.
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BETA - Version 1.32.6.7371

Platform: Mac, Linux, and Windows

Fixes

  • (Agents) Some attributes were missing from legacy agent api responses (#14436)
  • (Analysis) MP4 Atom Parsing could fill logs (#14418)
  • (Automatic Scanning) Symbolic links with missing targets could cause changes to later entries in a directory not to be detected (#14398)
  • (DVR) Could not record a show if a show with the same name (such as a remake) and episode number already existed in the target library (#13444)
  • (DVR) Devices could fail to be recognized when IP addresses change (#13529)
  • (DVR) Multi-lineup DVRs could be created as single-lineups (#14395)
  • (DVR) Tuning in channels could fail for channel names containing special characters (#14391)
  • (Debian) Remove GPG lower version limit (Music) Scanning music could be pathologically slow in some cases (#14389)
  • (Playlist) Adding a Clip to a playlist would unexpectedly convert it to a photo playlist (#14381)
  • (Transcoder) An incorrect fallback font could be used when burning subtitles in some cases (#14357)
  • (Transcoder) Certain newer AMD GPU models couldn’t be used for hardware transcoding on Linux (#14416)

DOWNLOAD LINK

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PUBLIC - Version 8.23

Platform: iOS

New

  • Some devices may not be prompted for local network access and therefore couldn’t access local PMS.

Download from iOS Apps Store

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PUBLIC - Version 8.23

Platform: tvOS

New

  • Performance improvements to the sidebar and home screen hubs.
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Any idea why this would happen. I think it’s mostly (if not always on my roku that I’ve noticed it.

Off by ~2 seconds if I directly play but is fine if I downgrade the quality.

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PUBLIC - Version 9.28.0

Platform: Android

NOTE: We are performing a staged rollout, which means the update may take a day or two before it becomes available.

Fixes

  • App could crash displaying the activity feed.
  • Player: strip out HDR10+ when playing DoVi P8.1 & HDR10+ stream on a DoVi display.
  • Player: postplay would sometimes be missing the play icon.
  • The list of muted and blocked accounts could be cut off.
  • Player: ensure TrueHD is transcoded on FireTV 4K Max devices that don’t support TrueHD.
  • Player: switching to another quality could fail when multiple versions exist.
  • [Mobile] The Grant Media Access flow would result in an error if the user does not own a Plex Media Server.
  • [TV] Sidebar icons would end up in a weird state if clicked while content was loading. [- TV] Returning to a collection after browsing an item would scroll to the top.
  • [TV] Friends: app could crash when unmuting or unblocking a user.
  • [TV] Platform: app could crash while signing in on Amazon Fire TV devices.
  • [TV] App could crash editing a managed user account.

Available on Google Play and the Amazon App Store.

DOWNLOAD APK (Plex Pass required):

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When I first learned how to put my media into Plex, I did it by using Handbrake, compressing the content down to .mp4, and doing my best to use “audio passthrough” for the highest quality audio tracks I could find. But nowadays a lot more discs are coming with TrueHD, which apparently isn’t supported by the .mp4 container.

I’m wondering what I should do for these audio tracks. I don’t really want to keep my media in .mkv format because of the challenge of getting subtitles to work and because the .mkv files are enormous. I’m assuming that hevc isn’t the answer, since I believe that still uses the .mp4 container. Any advice?

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PUBLIC - Version 1.75.0

Platform: Mac, Windows, and Linux

New

  • Discover Together: Add item details in activity detail page.
  • Discover Together: Change watch stats font.

Fixes

  • Fixed home admin not informed that Home limit is reached.
  • Fixed showing broken genre links in Plex Channels detail pages.
  • Improve error handling when changing profile full name.
  • Sidebar: Fixed an issue for users without media servers that could cause the More button to not appear if a Discover source is unpinned.
  • Updated icon in the keyboard shortcuts modal.

DOWNLOAD LINK

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PUBLIC - Version 4.112.0

Platform: Plex Web

New

  • Discover Together: Add item details in activity detail page.
  • Discover Together: Change watch stats font.

Fixes

  • Fixed home admin not informed that Home limit is reached.
  • Fixed showing broken genre links in Plex Channels detail pages.
  • Improve error handling when changing profile full name.
  • Sidebar: Fixed an issue for users without media servers that could cause the More button to not appear if a Discover source is unpinned.
  • Updated icon in the keyboard shortcuts modal.
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Anyone know of a way to auto skip nudity in movies and shows?

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PUBLIC - Version 1.44.1

Platform: Windows, Mac, and Linux

Fixes

  • [Discover Together] Hide reply button in non-friends activities
  • [Discover Together] Hide share button for videos that are unmatched
  • [Live TV] Fixed focused guide tab not being centered after returning from player
  • [Live TV] Fixed missing airing information in player after scrolling around the guide
  • [TTS] Improves text-to-speech for URLs

DOWNLOAD LINK

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I wanted to share this project, I just saw it on the unraid community apps and really like the idea.

Plex Shuffler is a free and open source software application for creating shuffled playlists on Plex. It integrates with Plex and allows the user to shuffle different TV shows but keep a single TV show's episodes in order. The idea is to create a TV channel-like experience by shuffling your favorite TV shows.

to me it just sounds like a simpler way to have something like dizquetv and not have to have to add users to Home it is still very early in development and didnt work for me as it only selected my first shows library which happens to be DVR and doesnt have much content

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I have never seen this before. It starts white, then turns pink after a few seconds. Everything works fine thought.

It's not happening on my when browsing my server on my Mac.

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PUBLIC - Version 2.122.1

Platform: Xbox

Fixes

  • [Discover Together] Hide reply button in non-friends activities
  • [Discover Together] Hide share button for videos that are unmatched
  • [Live TV] Fixed focused guide tab not being centered after returning from player
  • [Live TV] Fixed missing airing information in player after scrolling around the guide
  • [TTS] Improves text-to-speech for URLs
  • Temporarily removed DTS software decoder support (passthrough is still supported)
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PUBLIC - Version 5.65.2

Platform: PlayStation 4/5

Fixes

  • [Discover Together] Hide reply button in non-friends activities
  • [Discover Together] Hide share button for videos that are unmatched
  • [Live TV] Fixed focused guide tab not being centered after returning from player
  • [Live TV] Fixed missing airing information in player after scrolling around the guide
  • [TTS] Improves text-to-speech for URLs
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Hey, Everyone!

As you may have noticed, there have been some additions to the sidebar. I've added some links that I hope the community will find useful:

  • Plex FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions about using Plex Media Server and client apps with many useful links
  • Plex App Setup Guide - Visual guide for first-run setup of Plex apps on smart devices (content thanks to user @[email protected])
  • Useful Plex Add-ons - Detailed info on many Plex add-ons with setup guides and other useful links

Of course, if anyone else has any useful links, etc. they'd like to share, please comment on this post or share in your own post. The best links might even get added to the sidebar!

Cheers!

-- u/BrooklynMan

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PUBLIC - Version 5.65.2

Platform: VIZIO SmartCast

Fixes

  • [Discover Together] Hide reply button in non-friends activities
  • [Discover Together] Hide share button for videos that are unmatched
  • [Live TV] Fixed focused guide tab not being centered after returning from player
  • [Live TV] Fixed missing airing information in player after scrolling around the guide
  • [TTS] Improves text-to-speech for URLs
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