Okay, well that was faster than I have ever seen it. We are now live for testing the beta.
Just a reminder!
This is a test of the idea and approach, not necessarily a final product with all the polish, bells and whistles. With that being said I have tried my hardest to make it bug free, featured and polished. I will have fallen short in all of these areas, but I did all I could in a limited amount of time!
As a recap:
- Genus uses all native frameworks, so it will direct play MP4s with the correct codecs.
- Genus will Direct Remux MKVs with the correct codecs, and transcode everything else.
- There is no account switching, that will be added to the final release though.
- There is no Live TV or DVR.
- If you have more than one server (I don’t understand why you would), you choose the one you want to interact with, and if you want to switch that is accomplished via
- settings. The way it works in the official Plex app is clunky and dumb IMO.
I have been using Genus exclusively at home for the last 3 weeks or so, and I haven’t had any major issues, other than a strange one around Dolby Vision.
I don’t know if its because my DV files have the wrong version of DV or what, but no matter what I do I can’t get them to be recognized by the AVPlayer, so they display with the purple/pink issue.
I decided to ship this beta now, instead of spending more time working on this bug, since its really just a test of my ideas for how the app should work, what should be in it, etc.
Suffice it to say the official release will support the same DV formats that Apple does.
Okay, with that being said, here is the link to sign up for the beta, may the odds be every in your favor. There are 100 spots on this list, just for you fine forum folks.
If you want to file a bug report or have a feature request, you can add them here:
Thanks again for the input and encouragement while I have been getting this going. It’s meant a lot!
